Water for Elephants

by Sara Gruen

The Ruins

Scott Smith

Blindness

Jose Saramago

I got this book for Christmas like three years ago and I just finally got around to reading it. It's a really difficult read.

I found it difficult for a couple of different reasons. One, the punctuation is out of control. The paragraphs were like five pages long and there were no quotation marks. The ratio of commas to periods was like one billion to one.

If you read the excerpt, you'll understand a bit.

Also, the situations Saramago puts the characters in are horrible. I found myself feeling really agitated at certain parts.

They're making a movie based on the book. I'm assuming they're not going to be totally true to it. I don't think people would watch it.