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Review title: I didn't get the impression....
Product review: I didn't get the impression that T. Burke (an earlier reviewer) would like the pedestrian writing in THE DA VINCI CODE simply because he disliked Saramago's BLINDNESS. It's allowed, isn't it? To dislike a book by someone who has won the Nobel Prize?I just find Saramago bewilderingly obvious, unsubtle and boring to read. He also supplies the wrong details. Not the ones that are really emotional, not the ones that really matter. And if students in my writing workshops tried to write like him I would definitely try to lure them away from doing so by suggesting better models: Virginia Woolf, Kafka, Conrad, Jane Austen, J. M. Coetzee, Hemingway, John Updike, Leonard Michaels, Vladimir Nabokov, and Evelyn Waugh, since they are much better stylists. And more complex thinkers as well. So is Colette. So is the extraordinary Sylvia Plath. So is the German woman who wrote A WOMAN IN BERLIN under the pen name Anonymous...
