Customer Review: I loved the premise of Blindness. It had a great flow to it, excellent character development (though highly unconventional), and a story that kept one guessing most of the way through. Though the ending was somewhat predictable, some of the scenes completely off base on human reactions, and the... more info
Customer Review: i love Paolo Coelho's sense of humor....
this book has a lot of humor....
and yet it does not go over the top..........
the most surpising thing of all is that there's always something to learn about life from his novels..........
this is such a fun and funny book that will... more info
Customer Review: Why do I do this to myself? Why do I begin reading at 1 am when I've got to wake up at 8? Needless to say, waking up was easy when I never made it to sleep. This story pulled me right in. Worth the time, it was a quick read as well. I would have finished it faster but I enjoyed some pages so... more info
Customer Review: This is by far one of the worst books I have read. I was determined to see it to the end and finished it in 3 days. I gave Coelho a chance, seeing how he seems to be a prominent new author. Not only is his writing style poor, uninspiring and most of all DRY, his characters lack life, direction,... more info
Customer Review: I guess I was looking for a sequel to Blindness and this book is defintely not a sequel to Blindness. Book could have been good, but after reading first 40 - 50 pages, I could not bring myself to devoting more time to finish this book.
Customer Review: I like Jose Saramago as a writer. I like religion as a topic. However, it took me a very long time to get into this book. The first half dragged on for WAY longer than I felt it could have and though the second half delivered everything I'd been hoping for all along, the fact that it took so long to... more info
