Death with Interruptions
Ratings52
Average rating3.7
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Ratings52
Average rating3.7
"On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This, understandably, causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, funeral directors, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration - flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home - families are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral directors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots. Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small d, became human and were to fall in love?"--jacket blurb.
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The premise intrigued me, but unfortunately i couldn't make it past the first 15 pages or so. A conversation between two people was presented as one giant run-on sentence, with no dialogue tags, quotation marks, or even capitalization aside from the first word when a new person started speaking. This went on for multiple pages and i could not focus on it at all.
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“That's how life is, what it gives with one hand one day, it takes away with the other.”
let me just say this was hard to understand as this Jose guy can make a sentence last for pages. comma comma comma comma
What a fantastic book, both the story and the writing style. But I don't get how Saramago pulls it off. How can he write these long, intertwined sentences with commas and commas and even more commas and still make it work? I was sad when it was over; I would take a few chapters more. Which is a good sign, I believe.
loved the writing and the speed of the narative.
however, I feel that something big is missing from the story.
