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Title: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Subtitle: A 15-minute Summary & Analysis
Author: Instaread
Narrator: Jason P. Hilton
Format: Unabridged
Length: 36 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-04-15
Publisher: Instaread
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 54 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Please note: This is an unofficial summary and analysis of the book and NOT the original book.
Inside this Instaread:
Preview of this Instaread:
The lives of two teens, a French girl and a German boy, improbably intersect at the end of World War II in All The Light We Cannot See.
Before the war, Marie-Laure LeBlanc, who has been blind since childhood, lives comfortably in Paris with her father, Daniel, who is the key master for the natural history museum. She loves to visit the museum and learn, especially about mollusks, or snails. Her father makes her a detailed wooden replica of their neighborhood so she can learn to navigate it. He also makes complicated wooden puzzle boxes that delight her. He gives her a Braille copy of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days and then, after she devours it, the first volume of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Marie-Laure is also fascinated by a story she hears at the museum of a fabulous diamond hidden there...
About the Author
With Instaread, you can get the summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, summarize and analyze it for your convenience.
Members Reviews:
Don't bother
Read the actual book. This summary is a joke. The narrator cannot even pronounce the names consistently the same. It turns a rich and beautiful story into what sounds like a boring, torturous read.
The actual book is wonderful.
Not too shabby
The narration was without emotion but was clear and well read. Overall it was a good listen. Looking forward to the book in its entirety.
Helpful
Great for additional processing of the story after reading the full novel! I would recommend, but only after reading the book.
Painfully Bad Review of a Beautiful Book
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
1) If thought had been put into analysis of the themes of the book, such as "light". For example, the "analysis" of 'light' consisted mostly of a listing of all the references to 'light' in the book.
2) A reader who pronounced words correctly. English words (e.g., antithesis) were mispronounced, and the pronounciation of foreign words and names was excruciatingly bad (e.g., Werner, Volkheimer, Jutta, Marie Laure, Guernica). Painful to listen to.
3) The "analysis" claimed that a failing of this novel was the fact that only oblique references were made to the Holocaust...don't really know how to respond to that one.
Has All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr turned you off from other books in this genre?
Absolutely not. I loved the book. I will, however, never purchase another summary of a book by "Instaread" because this one was so poorly done.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Jason P. Hilton?
The reader of the actual book, All the Light We Cannot See. He was terrific.
You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
If you are a middle schooler and didn't read the book, you might be able to pull off an last minute essay. Otherwise I would not recommend this "Summary" or "Analysis".
Repetitive but filled in what I missed.
Had read book already , did not gain deeper insight. Want INSTAREAD on About Grace!
