All The Light We Cannot See

[Clawdy]

Just finished Anthony Doerr's novel, for our book group. It is wonderful. One of the few books I could read again, if only to know those people in it again. It's quite long, but with very short chapters, and once you begin, you just want to keep on reading.....

Iv just finished it too. Best book i have read in a long time.

Read it in the summer holidays. Lovely book.

Have started this 3 times, just can't get into it. Did anyone else think it was slow to start? Maybe I should try again....

Ooh I loved this. So moving.

Darwin it definitely took me a bit of time to get into it too.

loved it

It's in my shelf to read and I keep looking at it, will move it up the list

That book is awesome

I loved it. Best book I've read this year.

I loved it until the ending, which I was v disappointed with. With a better ending it would be in my top 5 so far this year, for fiction.

Thought the ending might disappoint but for me, it didn't, in many ways it seemed right. Can't say more without giving away spoilers!

Good book, once it gets going. Very cleverly structured.

Does anybody who loved this book have any other recommendations ? Need some holiday reading.

AnyFucker - I also recently enjoyed His Bloody Project which was a Booker shortlist novel.

I will have a look

I was disappointed with the end.

Anyfucker I loved the orphan masters son, it won a Pulitzer Prize

I absolutely loved this book

I found the descriptions really beautiful, sometimes I'd read the same paragraph several times to enjoy the language

I have never read/ seen anything about ww2 from a German characters perspective

It really hit home for me what a terrific waste of peoples' lives war is, not only the dead but those who lived through it

The ending felt right for me

The short chapters were perfect for reading when breastfeeding late at night

Meh. Thought it was a bit of a clichéd war novel myself although I am obviously in the minority.

Clichéd in what sense?

Didn't find many clichés in it. Werner's war experiences made fascinating and different reading for me.

Just started this

Loved this book. Read it last year. Really memorable.

I found the idea of a blind,female with a disrupted education becoming a renowned uni professor in war torn Europe unbelievable. We also didn't get to know her at all as her older character and it ended too abruptly.

I had coincidentally read a lot of WW2 books around the same time. In this one i found the fact all the Germans were bad and all the resistance fighters were good quite clichéd.
I didn't hate it, just found it a bit also-ran.

They were certainly not all bad - Werner, Frederick, Frederick's family, Jutta, professor whose name I can't recall, the lovely lady who ran the orphanage and brought the children up.....They were far from clichéd.