I think I am probably the persone who hates
this book the most in the whole world! But first things first, you should know that I could
be considered as a negative reader since I read a lot of books but only like a
few.
I had never read anything by the
author before and my review is not intended towards him in anyway. I just need
to say what I think about this book.
The first thought on my mind
while reading the book was: What a disappointment! They give Nobel prizes for
such THINGS now? Life is so unfair! The Curie(s) got themselves killed,
Marshall went through terrible agony and many others wasted their lives and
health for this award and this lame story is to be considered equally important?
Over my dead body!!! And I do mean it!
If this were a movie I would have
flipped the channel immediately. How many times so far have this idea been
exploited? It is boring; it has been boring since forever. I have to admit
though, the white blindness, so creative! (Wish you could hear the sarcasm). I
mean seriously, what was he thinking? What was the purpose behind this color?
To make the blindness original? Is this what these numerous pages were trying
to convey? Why not choose a purple blindness? An orange one? Or pistachio? The
color had no connection whatsoever to the story. I feel it was UFOed in the
book somehow.
Some other things I found even
more creative (NOT) were: the guy with the infection (Typical Hollywood turn of
event), the slut (yeah let’s add some spice to this dull life) the fight for
food, the domination of the bad guys over the good ones blablabla, it happens
every day around us (JUST OPEN YOUR EYES). Maybe some people feel touched when
they read about these things in novels but I don’t. I don’t like when we try to
mix the real world in the world of novels. It becomes either boring or
unethical or at least this is how I feel about it.
Now I would have been half as
disappointed as I am now if the story ended with the 7 or so persons but
NOOOOOOOOO, the story wasn’t boring enough with 7 or so characters, someone had
to shove in 200 more! The more the merrier maybe but all I saw was a fight for
food with a greater number of people! Or were the gang and gang leader and
their terms that important to convey us the message that man is an animal? We
got this message from the first few pages and honestly It is something I
realized a long time ago and we can see it every day around us too if we only
OPEN OUR EYES (see what I did there? :D). I hate when people try to lead us by
the hand to see what they think they’re the only ones to see it. Or as they
call it, give us a moral. The only moral in life is that there are no morals!
Finally about the style, to write
a book with no punctuation is as absurd to me as eating fries without ketchup.
But honestly this wasn’t much of a bother. Everyone’s got its tastes. On the
opposite, I did like, I even loved the fact that he didn’t use character names
not because it was original but because he explains it in the text in his
passage about the dogs not needing names to communicate with each other and
live together and that this was the most convenient thing to do for the
characters of this book.
See you next book J
See you next book J
