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?

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    1 year ago

    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.