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... now favourites:
Evelyn Waugh, Rebecca West, Haruki Murikami, & Peter Goldsworthy.
Biggest Disappointments:
Blindness , Jose Saramago; A Child in Time, Ian McEwan; Tweak, Nic Sheff; The Graduate, Charles Webb; and Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones.
... by Ralph Helfer.
And while shopping in bookstores for gifts I bought myself
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Birnbaum's Walt Disney World 2010.
I've already finished the Disney guide. Next from this list is either the Sayers or the Helfer ...
#66> Thanks, perlle, I may have to give Blindness another go!
#61> I actually gave up on Blindness after about 100 pages. It seemed to me a tale of unrelenting misery. Not so keen to try any of his other books after that one.
I'm currently reading The Lambs of London, and enjoying it. I thought the title was going to be a metaphor (the innocent people ...
I finished Blindness a few days ago. The book isn't one of the three Saramago books on the list. But it is more thought provoking than The Double which I read a few years ago. I wonder why it wasn't chosen for the list?
... see the Llosa's book is on there since I plan on reading that next year. I also have Seeing on my TBR since I just loved Blindness . And Woman in the Dunes is just classic along with All Quiet! Excellent excellent.
Since we seem to have similar tastes I'll have to check out Fado Alexandr ...
... Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Blindness by José Saramago
Purgatorio by Tomas Eloy Martinez
A River Called Time by Mia Couto
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
(I never ...
... The depressing state the characters are in will continue, they will never get out of their dismal situations.
Example: Blindness by Jose Saramago; The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
crimson-tide, I'm finding Shantaram rather annoying on a niggly level. The plot's good, but there's too much ...
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I picked this up on a whim when Blindness (my then current read) proved to be too bleak for me and I was stuck at work without a book to read on the bus home. Set on the eponymous Island, which is rather ...
Mark, the first Saramago book I read was Blindness , which absolutely blew me away; I've been a huge fan of his ever since. I haven't seen the movie, and I'm not sure that I want to. The Stone Raft was also fabulous, as was The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.
The film based on his novel Blindness was terrible.
X. Blindness , Jose Saramago
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bookmonkey00k in Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night : Things I've Noticed: World Horror books are definitely worth a look (Nov 6, 2009, 8:28am)
... situation. The novel took me less than a day to read because I could not put it down, the tension was simply too high.
Blindness , by Jose Saramago (Portugal)
It begins with one man. Sitting in his car waiting for the light to change, his vision simply fades to a milky white. Blinded, he is ...
... in the past little while that have systemic rape (i.e. the gathering/collection of women for the purpose of raping them) (Blindness , The Melanin Apocalypse, The Rising)...
Of course, rape exists now, and will exist post-apocalypse, and there are many many many authors who cover rape ...
... or that a woman wouldn't include that in a book, but the attitudes toward it were so male. My book club is discussing Blindness tonight, so if I see the specific passages, I'll come back and post them so you can see the language that I'm talking about. But otherwise I didn't like the book ...
>80, I love your comment that only a man would write parts of Blindness . What parts specifically do you mean? PM me if you don't want to leave spoilers for others?
80. Blindness , Jose Saramago
Literature, 1997
Comments: I expected to really love this book based on what I'd heard about it. Well, I didn't. It started out fine, quickly deteriorated, then got better, and then had an ending that didn't work for me. The writing was interesting and I thought ...
80. Blindness , Jose Saramago
Literature, 1997
Comments : I expected to really love this book based on what I'd heard about it. Well, I didn't. It started out fine, quickly deteriorated, then got better, and then had an ending that didn't work for me. The writing was interesting and I ...
... my literary heroines, although I did love Marianne as well, she was very sweet. For a drama queen.
Picked up in earnest Blindness and it's a fast read, but it's just so damned bleak . Anything that can go wrong and show humans up in a bad light, will go wrong (and show humans up in a ...
I'm reading Blindness right now, and it's great so far, but I haven't finished it yet. The last really good book I finished was Tender is the Night, and I'd love to talk to someone about it, because it sort of took me for a ride and made me swoon, then made me sad, then made me swoon again. Oh, ...
... Silk*
Norway: Herbjorg Wassmo Dina's Book**
Poland: Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness*
Portugal: Jose Saramago Blindness *
Spain:
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote***
Arturo Perez-Reverte Queen of the South**, Territorio Comanche*
Rosa Montero Amado Amo
Frederico Garcia Lo ...
... I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy, for a book group.
And I'm still reading in bits & pieces: A Confederacy of Dunces, Blindness , and Sense and Sensibility. I'm not focussing much at the moment!
Although Blindness has nothing to do with Portugal despite being written by a Portuguese author don't write it off just because of that! It still had some very important messages and is quite ... gripping.
September is over, and I never did finish Blindness , by Saramago. (It turned out not to be a good book for this challenge anyway). How did everyone else do?
... Dead! Dead! Ick.)
And, since there wasn't one of the books I'm actually reading to hand, I picked up Jose Saramago's Blindness . (Due back at the library today, I hope I can renew it!) Fascinating stuff, I'm quite hooked already.
I read Blindness quite awhile ago and was very disappointed in the book - I thought the author had too many tangents (i.e. an art discussion), character development that was not in line with how a person would develop (rapid significant personality changes), and a basic misunderstanding of human ...
From a used bookstore in New Mexico: Blindness by Jose Saramango, The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett, Silas Marner by George Eliot and a pristine hardcover copy of The Poems of Marianne Moore. It's usually $40, but I go it for $8.50.
... - José Saramago
999 Category 3 - TBR (5/9)
This is sort of a sequel to Blindness - the same unnamed country, some of the same protagonists (in the last third anyway). Set four years after the events of the previous book (in which a mysterious ...
Not exactly right but this definitely made me think of Blindness by Jose Saramago. There is a lot in that book to easily make up a senior thesis and it fits at 365 pages. Very powerful novel as well.
... spouse is good). A very bleak, sparse book. It falls into the category of good, well-written, but not enjoyable books. Blindness by Jose Saramago is much the same for me. I admire the writing but they are so harrowing to read. I felt detached from the Road, partly the writing style, and ...
Re Blindness , no probs - just let me know when you'd like it and I'll drop it round...
Brave New World is definitely worth a read if you've got it, although it is a little dated (from my memory) - and I preferred 1984 - but since that's not for you, you may enjoy the former more? I ...
... in plenty of time in the end, but I think I'm still slightly in denial about it being daytime even now. I'd love to borrow Blindness later in the summer - I realise that I haven't actually read ANY of those classic dystopian novels you mention (couldn't finish 1984, have a copy of Brave New Wor ...
... abbreviation! Somehow says it all ;)
Great review of Harry Potter - very much looking forward to the film now!
Re Blindness and "Seeing", I'd definitely recommend both even if you weren't a no-speechmarks kind of girl, so they definitely sound up your street! From memory (it's been a ...
... one after the other. I have to admit I didn't really see a lot of similarities. Rather, the story reminded me strongly of Blindness by Jose Saramago which I read a few years ago.
I thought it was a good read, it had a nice pacing and an involving story. I will probably reread it someday.
...
... (for some reason, the touchstone never works, but I've tried to link to the appropriate page). It's a sort of sequel to Blindness (same city, 4 years on), but this time rotates around people not voting (oh, how pertinent). I don't know if you've read Blindness , but it's written in the ...
42. Blindness by Jose Saramago
- I should've liked this book, I liked the story. However, the lack of proper punctuation and endless run on sentences were interesting in the beginning, frustrating toward the middle, and so maddening by the end I almost didn't finish it.
... work, so have linked to the Amazon page instead). I am enjoying it, more so as I get further in, but less than Blindness , I confess. His writing style (conversation is continuous with the plot) means that it's one of those books I do have to sit down and concentrate on for a ...
... my first mostly free one in a while - so lots of time for reading. But I must give Vilnius Poker a go first... And the Blindness sequel Seeing (which keeps getting lost in my TBR piles)
... I'll lose all respect for your prowess at reviews, and you wouldn't want me to do that and miss out on your review of Blindness .
I suppose, though, the best thing you can do is assume that since you are a reader, and you prefer a certain type of review, there are other people out there ...
70. Blindness by José Saramago
I second Blindness .
I've read Elegance of the Hedgehog and it's fabulous - very French though in the sense that it is quite cerebral, verbose with a slight tendency to essay-style digressions. I like that very much, but it's not every one's cup of tea.
... need to change the best bits, I don't know... However, at the same time, I finally got around to seeing the adaptation of Blindness , which I thought was very good (although losing some sense of the timespan, in my opinion therefore losing some of it's impact). Definitely going to have to bump ...
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71. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Blindness by José Saramago
... on the answer.
I like to read books I end up enjoying. After I finished my most recent "good one" (Saramago's Blindness ), I remember thinking, "that was worth it!" I didn't have that feeling with Ulysses—in fact, I knew 1 day into that week of reading that I probably wouldn't ...
... Road, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Midaq Alley, The Fish Can Sing, Grand Obsession, The Return of the Soldier, Blindness )
* A couple clunkers, but that's OK.
* Met my goal of a couple Austens; have added authors from 10 new countries for that objective; only one Shakespeare ...
So, TadAD wrote a great review of Jose Saramago's Blindness that was shown on the home page. I clicked on the review to read it and was taken to a book page: http://www.librarything.com/work/3773276/reviews/44270215
To my surprise, I am apparently able to click "edit book" and instead of ...
... ot.
>103, We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance sounds fantastic! Onto the list it goes.
>115, You read Blindness when you were sick?!?! I am impressed. I don't think I could handle it. Although perhaps being half awake enhances the strange atmosphere of the novel even ...
... a big fan of Saramago, but I haven't read The History of the Siege of Lisbon. His most famous (and, IMO, best) book is Blindness , but I suspect that it is written in the same style. I also thoroughly enjoyed The Stone Raft, a humorous novel involving the separation of Portugal from the Ib ...
Great review of Blindness , Tad! Hope you feel better soon.
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Blindness by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero
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General Fiction, Nobel Prize, Reading the World ...
... by Zadie Smith
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Blindness by José Saramago
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Wizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
The ...
Wow, I can't wait to get my hands on Seeing then. Blindness is one of my favourite books ever.
I'm going to chime in and say that I also enjoyed Blindness , (although not, I think, as much as lunacat or kidzdoc) and recently bought the sequel Seeing - I'm looking forward to it!
I agree with lunacat; Blindness is one of my all-time favorite books.
Try Blindness by Jose Saramago. Its a dystopian look at the world, very good, and written differently enough that you can't tell its a translation, its unique enough on its own!
Do! He blows me away - his style takes a little getting used to (no quotation marks, ever) but oh man. I have Blindness on my TBR, too, but he is batting 1.000 in my book so far, so I'm sure any of his books will be fantastic. I love this, "discovering" a new author that makes me think "must read ...
22. Blindness - J. Samarago
This book describes desperate people far better than Lord of the Flies.
... loved your review of Brideshead Revisited, one of my all time favourite reads.
I'll also be looking out for a copy of Blindness . Actually this seems familiar and I think I've seen the movie.
What other scifi/fantasy do you have lined up to read?
... dat uit had, was ik bijna letterlijk knock-out, zo'n geniaal boek lees ik maar zelden. Iets vergelijkbaars overkwam me met De stad der blinden van José Saramago. De aanslag - ook geniaal trouwens.
Maar goed, dit gaat over de allerslechtste boeken, niet de allerbeste. Superslecht is De ...
rachbxl, I agree with you completely; The Plague and Blindness are two of my favorite novels. I have Hopscotch, but I'm tempted to read Autonauts of the Cosmoroute first, but after I finish The Tango Singer and Ficciones.
I can't comment on Big Brother, having never seen the show. I ...
#12 Blindness
Very interesting style.
... Pratchett). Thomas Hardy is great and quite easy to read for a Victorian authour, although don't expect any happy endings! Blindness was an interesting read what with the absence of punctuation and changing narrative perspectives. It was a good portrayal of society in collapse though, a bit ...
Glad to hear your opinion of Blindness . I just got this book last week to fill in my "Things Portuguese" category over on the 999. There have been some real mixed reviews for the ones I've come across I'm looking forward to diving into it after i finish the Lenten list.
22. Blindness by Jose Saramago
After recommendation by a bunch of LTer's, mostly from this group, I decided to jump into Blindness . Wow, what a book. It's dystopean and shows the worst of humanity, but also some of the best. In a lot of ways, it reminded me of The Road, not the least ...
... are:
1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ( review )
2. Blindness by Jose Saramago (review )
3. Graceling by Kristin Cashore (drneutron in 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Best Reads of the Month - February (Feb 28, 2009, 5:42pm)
Drood - Dan Simmons
John Adams - David McCullough
Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
And if I finish today, Blindness - Jose Saramago
... *****
33. I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven 192pp. I enjoyed this little book. ****
34. Blindness by Jose Saramago 293pp. Very unusual writing style. Excellent book, I couldn’t put it down. *****
Recap of February
17 Books read, 5,491 pages
Auth ...
Blindness is a brilliant book and one I have been recommending to everyone for about 2 years now. I'm glad to see it has another admirer.
... already and loved or am about to read. Thank you for the mention of The Stone Raft by Saramago, too. I just recently read Blindness and I'm eager to read more stuff by him, as I really enjoyed the experience (although I was initially distracted by his punctuation).
>29: If you enjoyed Blindness , then you must read Saramago's Seeing , which is a sequel to Blindness , and even more chilling and politically prescient than Blindness .
I read Blindness a couple of years ago and it sure is terrific. An interesting and realisitic story. Seeing (somehow no touch stone to be found) is waiting on my shelf, I might move it up in my TBR-pile...
OK, I have put off Blindness for too long now. Comparing it to Camus finally did it for me. On to the Continent it goes!
>12 and 13 - Agree with the comments on Blindness . One of the things that amazed me so much about that book overall was how there were so many stylistic details - the lack of quotation marks, the non-naming of characters - that reinforced the reader's immersion in the sense of being blind & ...
I agree, lunacat - I think it's incredibly effective in Blindness , which I've just finished. Not only are there no quotation marks and no use of "he said", the dialogue also between different speakers in the course of a single (often mind-bogglingly long) sentence; you have to look out for the ...
Jose Saramago's books Blindness and The Stone Raft both have no punctuation but commas and full stops. I think it worked really well in Blindness but wasn't so sure about The Stone Raft.
#43: Thanks, Whisper! I hope you enjoy Blindness as we did!
#44: kd9, I've never heard of How We Decide, but might have to pick that up now. I already have Outliers waiting for me on audiobook, unfortunately-- I hope it's bearable!
I only learned about Blindness because I saw a trailer for it at the movie theater. Here's the trailer, although I saw a different one. I can't wait to see it!
19. Blindness , by José Saramago
... the books on my list, but it's nice to be able to learn/list/buy and convince myself that someday it will happen!
Adding Blindness and Bashan and I to my list!
I agree with kiwidoc about how effective what Saramago does in Blindness is - not only are there no quotation marks, but the same sentence can include dialogue from several different characters (the trick, I learned, is to look out for the capital letters, which signify a change of speaker). ...
I'm glad you enjoyed Blindness , it is one of the books that has had the most impact on me in the last few years. I was completely captivated by the story and by the way it was written. I recently read The Stone Raft and didn't like it nearly so much but if others have any further suggestions on ...
Hmmm, I have a few of those around here myself. So if I buy Blindness it can move from the store to my TBR pile, where it may live for many years, chatting nicely with the other unread books.
31. Blindness by Jose Saramago
... spot on. What a weird book - experimental literature at it's best!
Several of us are in the middle of or about to start Blindness and it'd be interesting to hear your comments on that one...
... Thomas Hardy, so that is an exciting possibility. The books by Derren Brown look interesting, too. What did you think of Blindness ? Looks like you have had a great reading year, so far. I am in the middle of several long books right now, but I like to take a break every so often with a ...
... too predictable for me. Hmmm... Will have to think about it. I don't regret reading it, though!
I've just started Blindness , which I wanted to read before the movie comes out, and I'm LOVING it. It's about a mysterious epidemic of blindness, and the book is so engrossing that I find ...
lilisin: I know for certain that I will read Blindness sooner of later—after all, I've already purchased it and it's near the top of the TBR pile. When I say I'm not sure I'm in the right frame of mind, I mean that CLINICALLY speaking, not just in terms of mood. I'm still on prolonged medical ...
I was just writing about Blindness by José Saramago over on theaelizabet's thread, saying that I almost picked it up from one of my many TBR piles a couple of days ago. I didn't go with it because I'm slightly intimidated by it (actually, a lot intimidated by it). One of the reasons for that ...
Blindness is on one of my TBR piles. I almost picked it up a couple of days ago, but then wasn't sure if I was in the right frame of mind for it. That book truly intimidates me. I'm going with The Master and Margarita for now.
Count me another fan of Blindness . I have only one other book by Saramago on my shelves, so I'll have to add The history of the Siege of Lisbon.
... has so much potential, but I can't seem to just read through it for longer than a few minutes. We'll see.
I've also got Blindness to look forward to for a group read. I'm hoping it's a good one, because it was my suggestion, what with the movie coming out soon.
... quite fondly of himself & I found it particularly obnoxious when he made fun of little kids.
I hope you do get to read Blindness this year - it was one of my favorite books of the last year, despite the fact that it was rather disturbing to read.
Hey lunacat, I bought Blindness yesterday, so I am glad you found it such a great read!
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The Stone Raft by José Saramago
Having read Blindness several years ago and continuing to recall it having quite an impact on me, I was interested when I found The Stone Raft in a second hand bookshop and had to ...
Stasia:
Me too, anything like The Road, World War Z, Blindness etc. I wonder what it is about apocalyptic or dystopian ideas that appeal so much.
Have you read Eva, a young adults book by Peter Dickinson? Thats an exceptionally well written book about the demise of humans and the ...
I haven't read Orphans but I have read Blindness
35. Blindness - Jose Saramago (304)
... avaland. I probably got started after picking up books by Naipaul, especially A House for Mr Biswas and Saramago's Blindness after they won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and by discovering Murakami when my local Borders featured The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood. Going ...
... Mishima - because an unofficial "category" for me in all years is "more Japanese lit"!
Jose Saramago - because I loved Blindness and want to read more
Thanks to Christina for inviting me!
Both Blindness and Life:A Users Manual while worthy contenders seem to me to be too challenging and dark for a group read. My choice out of those mentioned is A Heart so White as it has some great themes and will generate a lot of interest and comments.
However, keep the suggestions coming ...
I second tututhefirst for Blindness ...
I'm pleased to see so many other folks who enjoyed Blindness . I read it as part of a book group; I was the only one who liked it. That was a bit disappointing at the time. Thought (again) that there was something wrong with me. Has anyone seen the movie?
... some excellent comments and reviews from my fellow LTers, so I will throw the following into the ring for consideration:
Blindness Jose Saramago
a man and then an entire town go blind- the reviews alone make me want to read this one
Sorry by Gail Jones - a fictional account of con-joined ...
I read more than one book at once. Certainly not due to boredom.
At the moment, I'm reading Mere Christianity, Blindness , A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Reading the New Testament. I'm likely to add another book or two as I'm going. Once Portrait is finished, it will be replaced ...
#57 drneu and #58 georgiadawn
I really hope you both enjoy Blindness as I absolutely devoured and loved it, despite taking a little while to get used to the writing etc. It does take a bit of work and concentration at first but I am SO glad I put that in cos it is a 5/5 book for me. And yes, ...
... your review of Zombie. I know exactly what you mean about a great book that is troubling to read. I felt that way about Blindness by Jose Saramago.
... agree on The Lord of the Flies and how rules and morality can just die when outside of "society".
On a similar note Blindness which was also mentioned earlier is disturbing. During the pivotal scene I actually started crying and was so angry and disgusted that I wanted to rip out the ...
... Set... I've been hooked on the new HBO show True Blood.
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Shack by william p. young
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
I think that's about it for now. Who knows.. I seem to ...
What I read in 2006:
1) Kenzaburo Oe : Nip the buds, shoot the kids
2) Jose Saramago : L'aveuglement (Blindness)
3) Truman Capote : In Cold Blood
4) J.M.G. Le Clezio : L'Africain (The African)
5) Amelie Nothomb : Antechrista
6) Raymond Hesse : Vauriens, Voleurs, Assassins
7) Isabel ...
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In the meantime, I'll likely continue to read some short stories from The Savage Humanists. I'm also part way through Blindness .
Books owned over 6 months
1. Seeing by Jose Saramago
2. The Bright Forever by Lee Martin
3. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
4. Still Life with Crows by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
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25/11/2008 - 12/12/2008
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Total books read to date = 10/50
Well, I love Dickens and tolerate James BUT I'm going to nudge Blindness just to be contrary. I thought about Neuromancer but wondered if it might be 'dated' now.
I just finished Blindness by José Saramago and Lemony Snicket: The Bad Beginning and I liked them both, I think that Saramago's book was unusual and very well written although I don't share the author's point of view on many things I still think it was an excellent book and I think I'm ...
#20 Renald128
I love Blindness . Its one of my favourite books, I can read it again and again and get something different from it every single time.
I just finished the stories of eva luna by Isabel Allende and I started Blindness by José Saramago and Flashback by Jenny Siler has anyone read any of the books I'm reading i would love to hear some of your opinions on any of them. thanks
... not my fravorite book by her but worth to read it. And I'm about to start reading Flashback by Jenny Siler and Blindness by José Saramago
... Luna (1) and Bobble (nearly 1)
Favorite Book (so far): HP series, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Blue Sword, The Road, Blindness and a LOT of others!
Favorite Movie (so far): Lord of the Rings, The Shawshank Redemption, Stardust, 50 First Dates, Two Weeks Notice, Notting Hill, The Princes ...
I'm reading Blindness because I might somehow end up watching the film and I prefer to have read the book first if at all possible.
>118 fyrefly
RE: Blindness Don't be put off by the lack of punctuation. I didn't even notice it--I find that it reads like internal dialog and adds to the feeling. It's almost as if it forces the reader to be short a sense--well, like being blind.
Re: Blindness - I want to read this, but the punctuation thing would drive me crazy, and our local library doesn't have it on audiobook. *grumps*
I finished Brisingr last night and started in on The Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones - I've only read the first chapter, but so far, ...
... The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
3. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
4. The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
5. Blindness by José Saramango
Honorable Mention: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Tropic of Cancer, La Vagabonde
Non-Fiction
1. Gulag Archipelago Vol. I ...
... feel stupid reading them because I can't understand them...that said, its still worth reading his stuff.. FYI, the movie Blindness is based on is book of the same name...that is an incedible book..
53) LT Reviewer's Book-- The Army Of The Republic --wrong touchstone--BY" Stuart Archer C ...
Finished it:
32 Blindness by Jose Saramago.
Ok, so I liked it, and thought it was really well written, and he captured the despair inherent in the situation brilliantly.
I couldn't help thinking though, that in the situation of everyone gradually becoming blind with no discernible ...
Still reading Blindness - definitely unpleasant and disturbing but well written (apart from the tricky punctuation, or lack thereof).
... back to the present.
30 The Moon's a Balloon by David Niven. Great autobiog, very funny in places.
And now
Blindness by Jose Saramago. In the middle of it. Not easy to read because of writing style. Will have more to say when complete...
... Mario Vargas Llosa: after Pantaleon y las visitadoras (Captain Pantoja and the Secret Service)
3) Jose Saramago: after L'aveuglement (Blindness)
4) Romain Gary: after Les racines du ciel (Roots of Heaven)
With all these authors, to make sure I can enjoy their works for the majority of ...
... Mario Vargas Llosa: after Pantaleon y las visitadoras (Captain Pantoja and the Secret Service)
3) Jose Saramago: after L'aveuglement (Blindness)
4) Romain Gary: after Les racines du ciel (Roots of Heaven)
With all these authors, to make sure I can enjoy their works for the majority of ...
3 books in an Amazon package for me:
- Blindness - Saramago (LT recommendation - thanks guys, had never heard of it before, which is a bit ignorant I know!)
- Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
- Sputnik Sweetheart - Murakami
... Verses that kept me bemused if not necessarily amused.
Perhaps I just wasn't in the right mood last month.
1t. Blindness by José Saramago
1t. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
3. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Honorable Mentions: The Moonstone, The Three Musketeer ...
... get the impression that the devastation was nuclear.
A response in general:
The lack of names is intersting. Like in Blindness , it makes the assumption that without a society or civilizations our names and therefore all sense of manners flies out the window. I don't think this is a fair ...
... The feelings I had reading it - the horror, sadness and hope - reminded me of the feelings that I had when reading Blindness .
JanuaryW - I thought that one of the most wonderful parts of the book was the innate goodness/compassion in the boy. I am sure that he learned some of it from ...
Blindness (#195) ****½
by José Saramago
08/25/08
The Satanic Verses ****
by Salman Rushdie
08/26/08
Thomas Hardy ***
by Claire Tomalin
08/28/08
"White Nights"
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
08/30/08
OC: Blindness , The Satanic Verses EX: Thomas Hardy
>88: mikeepatrick, I've heard good things about Blindness and now wish I had chosen that book instead of Baltasar and Blimunda, which I threw against the wall on Saturday (see #71)
>90: Ex_Libris, a couple of classics there, eh? I read and enjoyed Midnight's Children not long ago, and my ...
Perhaps it was due to reading Saramago after a string of women writers. I haven't read Blindness , but I have read two: The Tale of the Unknown Island and The History of the Siege of Lisbon. From what I've read, he doesn't give his characters much depth--they are almost symbolic in ...
Is it Blindness by Jose Saramago?
... Weber
In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
Double Vision by Pat Barker
Blindness by Jose Saramago
... - A Bend in the River ***½
12. J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace ***
13. Rudyard Kipling - Kim ***½
14. José Saramago - Blindness ****
15. Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth ***
16. Sinclair Lewis - Elmer Gantry ****
... in de bespreking wegliep gisteren, maar ik was echt al heel moe... Alleszins was het zeker een gezellige en leuke avond, en De Stad der Blinden gaf zeker aanleiding tot heel wat discussie. Een discussie die we hier misschien kunnen verder zetten?
Nog eens in een notendop wat ik er zelf van ...
... overdone considering the plot in the book is very minimal. We'll see.
But still. That makes two movies I want to see:
Blindness
Silk
fannyprice
Yes, Blindness is quite mentally exhausting and challenging but it tackles on dystopian literature like I've never seen before and it was just too eye-opening not to include it! As the original post says, it has become of great personal value to me. I always reference it, ...
>57, diwan - I thought Blindness was riveting and harrowing. I don't want to give away plot points, since you haven't read it, but let's just say that people do not handle the epidemic of blindness as nicely as one might hope. Despite some pretty graphic descriptions of not-so-nice things, I ...
Left the harrowing land of the blind (Jose Saramago's Blindness and find myself once again in Palestine, this time with Joe Sacco's graphic novel.
... areas of knowledge, so I guess it worked! I just bought this book for my dad for his birthday - I know he will love it.
Blindness by Jose Saramago as part of my reading around the world challenge. An entire city is suddenly struck down with an epidemic of blindness and society kind of ...
... think that diminished my experience. I now have about 1000 more areas of knowledge that I would like to explore!
(41) Blindness by Jose Saramago
I bought this for my boyfriend a while ago and neither of us got around to reading it until I started my 'Around the World' fiction ...
... forum - I know this issue has been discussed before, but I can't find the threads...)
There are two reviews for the book Blindness that are not really reviews - they are just the book description from the back of the novel recopied into the review field. Does this count as a non-review? If ...
... an entry or two a week in How Language Works.
I am about 3/4 of the way through Jose Saramago's harrowing novel Blindness . It is really well-written but I can't say I'm 'enjoying' reading it. After this one I'm going to need something light and funny.
>23, lilisin - wow, Blindness ...I'm about 3/4 of the way through it and while it is definitely a smart, well-written book, I cannot say I am 'enjoying' it. It is traumatic and exhausting. I find that I feel isolated from the normal world after reading it. (sigh...I want to finish it tonight, ...
Still in Palestine with Ghassan Kanafani, but I've also picked up Blindness by Jose Saramago. I'm not sure yet where the book is set - if it is even identifiable as a specific place - but I guess I'm technically in Portugal, since that's where the author is from?
I'm anxious to see Blindness , Jose Saramago's work. It has an actor I adore playing once again, a really tough role. I can't wait!
47) Blindness by Jose Saramago ( review )
After five days of a Tipperary rut, I have abandoned it for now. I hope to finish Blindness by Jose Saramago this week instead.
I'm with #75 KromesTomes: I thought Blindness was a lovely book, on the whole, although it took me awhile after finishing it to fully process it, I suppose. It's certainly not the happiest read, but still, I think, a wonderful one.
mullaghman: just have to provide some counterpoint here ... Blindness was my first book by Jose Saramago, too, and it's definitely my favorite, although I've only read two others ... he does have a "voice" that is obviously non-American, but it struck me more as a stylistic thing that I was ...
... piqued my interest!
This week, I am reading Tipperary by Frank Delaney, and I really need to start and finish Blindness by Jose Saramago as it's due back to the library next weekend!
Dark Age Ahead
Butterflies Dance in the Dark
Cold Dark Matter
Blindness
Midnights
... - WELCOME BACK to the US! And that's a nice "welcome back" set of books!
Three books came to my home today:
1) Blindness by Jose Saramago (from the library)
2) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (from PaperBackSwap)
3) The Road by Cormac McCarthy ...
Blindness - Jose Saramago
Nip the buds, shoot the kids - Kenzaburo Oe
Sweet scent of death - Guillermo Arriaga
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Hiroshima - John Hersey
I think my favorite books so far this year have been the Christopher Moore books, Blindness , Perfume, and White Oleander. White Oleander is totally depressing but beautifully written. I fell in love the moment I turned the first page.
Also, Shadow of the Wind. If you haven't read ...
Cod
Alligator
Giraffe
Beasts
Awakening
Restlessness
Fury
Wicked
Cocksure
Snow
Seeing
Blindness
Away
Rerun
Distance
Reconciliation
Unstolen
Intimacy
Limitations
Rockbound
Faithful
Couples
Sideways
Self
Housekeeping
Call ...
... across some really bad ones often.
Here are a list of some I can say I truly hated:
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
My 2c (please forgive - i couldn't stop at just one!):
* The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
* Blindness by Jose Saramago (i'm not yet familiar with the work they listed by Henry Green)
* The Known World by Edward Jones
* Identity by Milan Kundera
* The Caprice ...
Upon browsing IMDB just stumbled upon Blindness by Jose Saramago is being made with a release for march 2008. Being my most favourite book of all time i'm very curious to see how it translates to big screen. I thought they did Perfume very well though, would be curious to see others feelings on ...
... the Devil by Anne Rice
19. Rereadings by Anne Fadiman
20. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
21. Blindness by Jose Saramago
22. Seeing by Jose Saramago
23. Russian Gypsy Tales by Yefim Druts and Alexei Gessler
24. Bookstore Tourism by Larry Portzline
25. ...
... Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Asia (Japan): The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Europe (Portugal): Blindness by Jose Saramago
... and his family to keep out society and its demands." Scary stuff.
Oh, and everyone who suggested Saramago's Blindness - yes yes yes. Wonderful.
... she chose this one! i've been raving about this book forever, but i thought it would go the way of Jose Saramago's Blindness .
... until i was across town near my favorite used book store... an hour later, i'm much broker, but the proud owner of aztec, blindness , the winds of war, bleak house, and forty signs of rain.
(2) the fact that i still took that trip to my favorite used book store three days later, ...
I'll second Blindness ... also, if you want to kind of stay on topic, yet still kind of lighten up, you could check out Jennifer Government by Max Barry and The Space Merchants by Pohl/Kornbluth ...
... but along some of the same themes...
...another bleak outing is a book that moved me to tears, Saramago's Blindness . It always came across to me as an allegory of what would happen if the powerful few had to take just one step backwards.
A more advensuresome and lighter ...
This past Sunday I bought:
The People's Act of Love, Blindness
The Dog Behavior Answer Book by Arden Moore
These were buy two paperbacks get one free at Borders.
Today, I bought:
Let Me Go by Helga Schneider
Wish by Melina Gerosa Bellows
Everything Bad Is Good For Yo ...
... Wind, The Satanic Verses, Artemis Fowl, Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident, All the Pretty Horses, Germinal, Blindness , Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Persuasion, Anton Chekhov's Selected Plays, Wind in the Willows, The News From Paraguay, The Namesak ...
... then I re-read (snickers..) the question. My answer: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Original response:
Blindness by Jose Saramago, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Love them all ...
The man who loved children by Christina Stead: Australia
Blindness by Jose Saramago: Europe
The assault by Reinaldo Arenas: South America(?) ... he's from Cuba
The Lemon by Mohammed Mrabet: Africa
And I'll second the nomination of Nip the buds ... and Kenzabur ...
Re message 9: Just goes to show how different people have different takes on books ... I thought Blindness was outstanding and don't really remember it having an obsession w/bowel movements.
... said this was a great book (was one of the reasons I purchased it) but I would have to say the worst book I ever read was Blindness by Jose Saramago. I have never in my life read a book that refered into so much detail people having bowel movements. Disgusting book.
... nc
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
Something by V.S. Naipul
Blindness or The Cave by Jose Saramago I read All the Names - really good!
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
There are probably more, I have a pile of ...
I finished up Jose Saramago's Blindness and then read through the anonymous diary, A Woman in Berlin. The diary brought home the point that Saramago's fiction is rooted in nonfiction of the 20th century. Time for some lighter reading...
... because the capacity lies within each of like a slumbering bear.
Another book that scared me on a similar level is Blindness by Jose Saramago. Without sight we are reduced to base creatures without reason or compassion. The idea and the results painted by Saramago are chilling.
For ...
... by Jose Saramago along with me for reading elsewhere. I'm not very far into it -- I wonder if it will be as scary as Blindness was?
... in
5.The Trial
6.The Grapes of Wrath
7.And Quiet Flows the Don
8.The Longest Journey
9.Wide Sargasso Sea
10.Blindness
As always not entirely sure of the order - but not 100% unsure either so I won't meddle with my first "intuition".
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I picked this up from the library, read quite a bit, but then realised I just had no energy to finish ...
72. Blindness by José Saramago 
73. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella 
Blindness by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero
: Blindness by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero
General Fiction, Nobel Prize, 
When one man is suddenly and inexplicably stricken blind in the middle of traffic, his opthalmologist is mystified, but not worried. Everyo ...
