I FREAKED OUT reading this book | ‘Blindness’ book review

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  • Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
  • H'ere’s my book review for ‘Blindness’- the fiction that we are kind of living. It’s honestly one of the best books I’ve read this year so I highly recommend you pick it up. Also, I talk about Mancur Olson’s research paper so maybe read that too?
    #blindness #quarantinebook #josesaramago #booktube #anarchy
    Instagram: @jeeyounglee
    ~FAQs~
    Q: What’s your ethnicity?
    A: Korean
    Q: Age?
    A: 20 (born 2000) but I am a junior
    Q: What is your major/ what do you study?
    A: Political science and economics
    Q: What do you do for a living?
    A: I am a full time student. '
    Song: Music by Sam Wilder - Overtime [Instrumental]

КОМЕНТАРІ • 11

  • @Pretzels722
    @Pretzels722 3 роки тому +3

    i was just looking up "excellent sheep" and have recently started reading blindness - subbed!

  • @marcofajardo8608
    @marcofajardo8608 3 роки тому +2

    great review!!!

  • @saranajmiiiii
    @saranajmiiiii 3 роки тому +3

    i loved this review

  • @diyav008
    @diyav008 3 роки тому +2

    Loved all the insights! Will check out the newspaper for sure :)

  • @Monabee29
    @Monabee29 3 роки тому +1

    Loved your review and analysis of the book! Just finished reading it, so it was fun to hear you speak about it. So true, the protagonist HAD to be a women... Sending love from Canada

    • @jjlee8344
      @jjlee8344 3 роки тому

      I'm so glad that you enjoyed! Thank you

  • @safe-keeper1042
    @safe-keeper1042 2 роки тому +1

    I'll have to give this and similar videos a watch when I'm done reading it for my book club, because I'm 5-6 chapters in and I've never disliked a book more. Not sure if you're interested in reasons, and I've been told it lightens up a bit when you're past the halfway point, but so far it's just non-stop, unbroken oppression, misery, and hopelessness that you don't get a break from, incredibly predictable writing, blind people portrayed as utterly helpless, and cardboard-thin characters for the government officials and soldiers, who mostly feel like the villains in a fanfic written by a 12 year old. Oh, and I hear there's indepth descriptions of sexual assault. Good times.
    It's not even the darkness of the book that bothers me -- I've read everything from a lot of Stephen King's works to The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (an incredibly gritty book about a dysfunctional family in a village deep in the Alaskan wilderness), and Idas Dans, an incredibly sad Norwegian book about a teen girl dying of leukemia, so I'm no stranger to dark books. It's just... sorry, but I just actively dislike this book and I find myself having to force myself to listen to it. But sure, the author has won a Nobel prize so it has to have some redeeming qualities. Guess I'll keep trucking.

  • @Nymira
    @Nymira 3 роки тому +1

    I decided to read it and found your review it! Thanks 💗

  • @joajune
    @joajune 3 роки тому

    Love Saramago! Please read more from him, you won't regret it

  • @yl9699
    @yl9699 3 роки тому

    Covid scares me even more now