Blindness

The style of this book is a little strange with no quotes or chapters and really long “sentences,” and I don't know if the author being quirky (or is it just lazy) really adds to the book. I guess it does kind of lend itself to a stream of consciousness typa writing but sometimes I need to breathe! The story itself is a pretty intriguing concept, there is some kind of “blind pandemic” with people suddenly going blind while one character retains the ability to see. It's interesting how much of a superpower a basic sense becomes when no one else has it. At times the story got um very very uncomfortable (why do the twins keep subjecting the book club to this!!) but it has lord of the flies vibes in terms of how humanity deconstructs faced with something so devastating to our standard of living and I think it was a probably realistic depiction of that deconstruction.

I didn't like how it's never explained where the blind plague came from or how it suddenly got cured?? . Like I want to know WHY and I hate when authors place characters in real world settings with some kind of fantastical/sciency twist only to use it as a plot device to examine human nature... Although I guess it could be claimed this book doesn't take place in our world since there are no names of anything at all in the book.

Overall I would say it's a good read but I would never read it again nor actively recommend it to someone else.