My Edition: 326 pages, 1999
Published by: Harcourt, Inc.
Rating: 5 kisses
Summary: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-blindness/plotsummary.html
A man suddenly goes blind for no apparent reason. As a doctortries to assign an etiology, the condition begins to spread rapidly as if caused by a pathogen. Within days, there are hundreds of newly blind people and within a few months, the entire nation has gone blind. The government responds initially by creating large quarantine areas where infected persons are forcibly held without recourse to medical care or outside assistance. As the diseasesweeps the nation, first social services then law enforcement completely fail, leaving the country in a state of chaos as the strong begin to prey upon the weak. Numerous crimes and outrages are perpetrated even as hundreds of thousands begin to starve and die. One small group of blind people coalesces around the leadership of a woman who - apparently uniquely.....
Favorite Quote: "Because the feelings with which we have lived and which allowed us to live as we were, depended on our having the eyes we were born with, without eyes feelings become something different."
Review:
This is a must-read book for everyone. Its a favorite of mine not because it was a happy book but it was actually a sad book that shows us the evils of men. It showed me that men (and maybe women too ;p) are beasts. It was only observed/SEEN when the characters were BLIND. It taught me that we are currently SEEING things but not really SEEING. We are BLIND to the evil society to the point of taking part in it. It takes a sickness in the form of BLINDNESS to really SEE the world for what it is. This book is a big paradox. I thought I wouldn’t enjoy it since Saramago hates periods and quotation marks (hehe) but I got used to it. Saramago was also able to convey the feelings, the smells, the taste of the blind. THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU THINK. THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU SEE.
My SOundtrack:
1. Sedona Sunrise by Aerosmith
2. Someone to Save You by One Republic
3. Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart by ALicia Keys
4. All Alone by Chris Richardson
5. Airplanes by B.O.B and Hayley Williams
will watch the movie
Love is BLINDNESS....u2
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