Hey there everyone! I finished reading Saramago’s ‘Blindness’ a while ago and… I have to admit that I had to push myself through to finish it, much to the bafflement of many people who consider it a ‘masterpiece’. When I wrote its review, I pointed out how the written style was blocky and nearly a headache to read due to the lack of proper punctuation, paragraphs and so on.
But now I’m sort of curious, what sort of book you thought was ‘overrated’ and why?
All the light we cannot see. Pretty much anything that wins a Pulitzer.
Yeah, I liked it fine enough, but wouldn’t have strongly recommended it to anyone.
It’s a good book, but I liked his follow up, Cloud Cuckoo Land, much more. It has a similar narrative structure to All the Light We Cannot See, but it goes across a couple more timelines and has a more compelling story across all of them.