Epinions Recent Reviews for Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero

Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero: Stumbling in the whiteness

Sun, 15 Jan 2006 04:17:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pearannoyed - Anyone who has been exposed to the writing of José Saramago will never forget it. Some will hate it, complaining that his lack of normal punctuation and rambling writing style are too hard to read; too difficult to understand; too much work for a...

Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero: Jose Saramago - Blindness: ...a vision in white as darkness falls all around

Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:03:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bob_tomato - I readily admit that I've limited my literary vision to mostly sci/fi and fantasy plus the occasional biography or extended socio/political rant, but as I've gotten older, I've found that my biblio-focus is changing. I want clarity in the books I...

Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero: A mind-blowing work of genius

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:53:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author judy_lind - I first discovered Jose Saramago after hearing conflicting reports on his book "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ"; after one reading of that volume, I was hooked. "Blindness" shows Saramago for the genius he truly is. It starts off simply enough; a...

Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero: Blindness: A challenging look at human nature

Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:38:55 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author asteffen - I see that other epinions reviewers have given this book very high praise. I am a bit more cautious in my recommendation. In its favor, the book offers an incredibly thought-provoking look at human nature and the fragile world we have built for...

Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero: T-pini•n: I see, said the milky blind man — Blindness, José Saramago

Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:33:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - What if it all broke down, I asked, Everything.

Everything, you repeated, What do you mean.

Well, you know, society, the world as we know it, the whole enchilada, a total and complete meltdown, Some say we got on that...

Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero: DO WE ALL SUFFER FROM A BLINDNESS?

Tue, 22 May 2001 19:55:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mike.holmes - What can I say? I've read several other epinions on this novel and I have rarely seen such disagreement. Some rave about it and give it five stars while others rave at it and give it one or two stars. As I prepared to write my review, I thought of the...

Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero: Credit for Provoking Me?

Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:21:47 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author robndea - Perhaps Saramago got the Pulitzer prize for provoking the peewaddin out of the judges. Yes, this story made me think...sometimes about the society he constructed, but more often about how irritating was his experimental writing style.

A man...

Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero: Blindness: A Harrowing Look at Society and Human Nature

Thu, 8 Mar 2001 00:26:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kchowell - I was enticed into purchasing a copy of José Saramago’s Nobel prize-winning novel Blindness after reading the praise that fellow Epinions members nita, mgreber and erik_kosberg had offered for the book. After finishing the...

Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero: Blindness- What would you do if the whole world were blind?

Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:11:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author levda - As children, we often pretend that we are blind. We close our eyes tightly and try to see if we could get by with only our hands to feel the way. At times throughout my life, as I have seen a blind person walk down the street with relative ease, I have...

Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero: 1997 | Jose Saramago | A Gift of Sight

Sun, 28 May 2000 18:43:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jbliv - While I often enjoy the literary prowess of such mainstream intellectual writers as Irving, Helprin, and Erickson, I find myself gravitating time and again toward the horror genre, toward writers such as Simmons, Barker, Straub, and Koontz. I've done...

Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero: gaze worthy

Wed, 10 May 2000 14:01:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author suzlee - Despite being a translation of author Jose Saramago's work from Portuguese to English by Giovanni Pontiero, this book is one of the smartest books I have read in a while. As a commentary on society as it stands, "Blindness" does well to...

Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero: Blindness: If you can see, look. If you can look, observe.

Wed, 29 Mar 2000 02:52:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mgreber - An unnamed man, in an unnamed country, goes blind while sitting in his car at an intersection. It is a white blindness, his world a horrific sea of milky whiteness. Soon, it becomes clear that this is a plague, a disease spreading throughout the...

Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero: Blindness will open your eyes

Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:21:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author splitsurround - "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, is a sprawling, horrifying tale about human nature. Set in a nondescript city, it tells the story of an epidemic of unusual force and circumstance-a disease where people go blind one after the other, seemingly...

Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero: the blessing of blindness

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 20:55:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bananas252 - Have you ever wondered what it would like to be blind? Jose Saramago's Blindness will fill you in with grim details.

The novel takes place in a city where an epidemic of blindness has touched almost every citizen. A small band...

Blindness by Jose Saramago and by Giovanni Pontiero and translated by Giovanni Pontiero: a "must read"

Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:36:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - An amazingly good book. I don't want to give away too much of the story, but a short introduction to it is necessary. A man waiting for a traffic light to change is suddenly struck blind but instead of everything going black, everything goes white, a...