Baltasar and Blimunda

Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago

343 pages

Started: 29 August 2011
Finished: 6 January 2012

When I would pick up this book I was surprised at how fast the pages went. The thing that constantly struck me about the book was actually the style of writing.

After having it pounded into my head in school that run-on sentences were bad, that dialogue needed quotation marks and when a new person spoke that was a new paragraph, I really enjoyed reading a book where every single one of those was thrown out the window and the book was better for it. At times an entire paragraph, which could easily be at least a page long, would have one, maybe two periods in it.

The book was a constant stream of thought and ideas that easily flowed from one to another.

And the ideas that flowed were of the absurdity of monarchy and church, of the true adventures in life, and the power of love.

This was a very interesting book indeed.

Rating: 9