Blindness

A strange, grotesque novel but allegorical and fascinating. Four stars for intrigue and creativity, though it's not one I ever plan to reread.

This book was interesting, but it wasn't meant to be. I went to book club after half finishing it and learned that later in the book is what someone described as “the most horrible rape scene they'd ever read in a book.” We discussed the ending and I decided not to finish it.

Read this along with 2 senior AP Lit classes. While I really loved discussing the book with the students, I didn't love the book. In fact I plain didn't like it, though I appreciated a good portion of the writing, even though there was some heavy-handedness at times. I definitely had to take emotional breaks when it was at peak humanity's-descent-to-hell. I'm not sure I'm ever getting that pivotal blood/semen/shit gang rape & murder scene out of my head, unfortunately.