Blindness
1995 • 349 pages

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15

There was no payoff for the time spent on this book intellectually, spiritually, or viscerally. I almost never say this, but I appreciated the film more because it managed to convey the same ideas without the tedium.

I understand that the writing style (run-on sentences, no separation of dialogue, no punctuation) may have been meant to give the writer the same feeling of stumbling around blindly but since it didn't truly achieve this, by the time I reached the last hundred pages I was weary of it.

I will avoid rating this for now, as I may try to read this again in a few months or a year or so. When we're not in a real-life quarantine maybe it won't feel so odious.

August 25, 2020