Book Into Movies – Win A Copy of Blindness!
MGM has generously offered to send one person a copy of Blindness by Jose Saramango. The movie opens this weekend! Just leave me a comment here and I will draw a winner on Monday October 6th! Good Luck!
Blindness by Jose’ Saramago came out in 1999 and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. So it will be pretty difficult to live up to those expectations for the movie. But the trailer looks really good, the actors are great and the director is Fernando Meirelles, so those are good odds.
Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. A city is hit by an epidemic of ‘white blindness.’ The blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards. Inside, the criminal element among the blind hold the rest captive: food rations are stolen, women are raped. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers through the barren streets. The developments within this oddly anonymous group — the first blind man, the old man with the black eye patch, the girl with dark glasses, the boy with no mother, and the dog of tears — are as uncanny as the surrounding chaos is harrowing.
A parable of loss and disorientation, of man’s worst appetities and hopeless weaknesses, Blindness is one of the most challenging, thought-provoking, and ultimately exhilarating novels published in any language in recent years.
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I would love to win a copy of this book! It sounds wonderful.
I just lost all my bookworm street cred — I didn’t realize this movie was based on a book! (An award-winning one at that!) Please enter me so I can get some of that street cred back.
ruth at bookishruth dot com
I would love to win a copy. Please enter me!
shelly dot burns at cfisd dot net
We all know that books are better than movie versions, so please count me in.
The book? Yes! Book always wins over movie for me. Count me in!
Oh yes! I would love to win a copy of this book.
I’m interested in reading Blindness and would love to win a copy. Thank you for the opportunity!
Oops! I forgot to add that I’ll post in on my sidebar.
The movie looks so suspensful. I would love to read the book as well. =)
I’ve heard a lot about this book, and I’d love to actually read it
Please enter me!
bluebyrd24 [at] gmail [dot] com
The trailer looks good and the book is usually always better than the movie, so please enter me in this contest.
Thanks!
~ Popin
I saw the trailer for this movie and it looks good. The book is probably even better!
I’d love to be entered thanks.
Becky
I would love to win this book!! Enter me! plz!!
Hello, I have been seeing the movie previews on tv. Mankind and its’ weaknesses are always interesting. Please enter me in your delightful giveaway drawing. Thanks, Cindi
Would love to read it please enter me..thanks
Would love to have a copy of this book so that I can reread it over and over. I borrowed it from library a few years ago, but sad to say, I now live in such a small town they don’t have a library or a bookstore!
I’d love to read it before I see the movie.
I would also like to read this before I see the movie.
Thank you!
janetfaye (at) gmail (dot) com
i would love love love to get my hands on this one.
thanks
sounds like a great book been hearing a lot about it
I’d much rather read the book than watch the movie…please include me in the drawing!
Darby
darbyscloset (at) yahoo (dot) com
think im too late for the drawing well its 5 am tuesday here, but if im not id also love a copy but if i am too late its cool i love your blog anyway
Thank you for the book. I’ve read and reviewed it here: http://c-alexis.livejournal.com/25410.html
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