Lauren T. (littlegirl) - reviewed on 12/1/2010 + 37 more book reviews

I'm probably the only person who did NOT love this book. I actually didn't even finish it. I found Saramago's style of prose (long run on sentences with little or no punctuation) distracting and made it difficult to get into the story.

While communicating a poignent message through satire, the narrative made the city officials into such charactatures that I felt like I was getting beat over the head with the message "elected officials are hypocritical and absurd" - I get it; I got it on page 2.

I stopped reading before the plot turned "sinister."

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