Overall, I enjoyed reading this book. Although the beginning was a little slow and the book itself is fairly dense, the topic that Saramago writes about is extremely interesting; he explores a topic that many others don't attempt to write about or imagine. However, I wish that the author created a different ending to the story. Yes, it may relieve some of the audience's anxiety that instant blindness will not occur, but after reading 326 pages of the novel and ending the way it had started, with people regaining sight, I was quite disappointed. I felt that I read all of the book only to come back to where I had started. It would have been much more interesting if Saramago wrote about how society adapts to blindness, whether society is strong enough to overcome an epidemic so devastating, or whether it'd collapse and people would live in an uncivilized and barbaric state like we once did thousands of years ago. This would be the ultimate test of human capabilities, organization, and progressive behavior that makes up our ever-changing society today.