📚 All the Light We Cannot See
A book that weaves two stories during a war. Enjoy how it comes together, but watch out for some confusion from time jumps. If you’re into war stories this one’s for you, Anthony Doerr paints a picture of human feelings and deep thoughts.
About the book
| Author: | Dale Carnegie |
| Year of release: | 2014 |
| Genre: | Fiction, Historical, War, Adult, Novel |
| Pages: | 531 |
| Average WPM: | 340 |
| Date Started/Finished: | 26-May-22 to 15-June-22 |
| Time took: | 3.32 Hours |
What I Liked About It and What I didn’t
What I liked
- Love how the 2 independent stories come together in the end What I didn’t like
- Can get confusing at some parts since there are a lot of time jumps
How I Discovered It
Halima recommended me to read it
Who Should Read It?
Someone who loves war related stories, multiple story lines happening in 1 story
Summary + Notes
Chapter 18: The Professor
The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. It brims with color and movement. So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?
Chapter 19: Sea of Flames
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Papa says curses are only stories cooked up to deter thieves. He says there are sixty-five million specimens in this place, and if you have the right teacher, each can be as interesting as the last.
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Certain things compel people. Pearls, for example, and sinistral shells, shells with a left-handed opening. Even the best scientists feel the urge now and then to put something in a pocket. That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.
Chapter 51: The Professor
The Poles captured him and tortured him with electricity. They gave him so much electricity that his brain liquefied, said the commandant, but before they did, Reiner Schicker said something amazing. He said, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Chapter 73: Entropy
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“Entropy is the degree of randomness or disorder in a system, Doctor.” His eyes fix on Werner’s for a heartbeat, a glance both warm and chilling. “Disorder. You hear the commandant say it. You hear your bunk masters say it. There must be order. Life is chaos, gentlemen. And what we represent is an ordering to that chaos. Even down to the genes. We are ordering the evolution of the species. Winnowing out the inferior, the unruly, the chaff. This is the great project of the Reich, the greatest project human beings have ever embarked upon.”
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The entropy of a closed system never decreases. Every process must by law decay.
Chapter 87: Everything Poisoned
New silk banners hang above the refectory tables, ablaze with slogans. They say, Disgrace is not to fall but to lie.
Chapter 89: The Frog Cooks
“Do you know what happens, Etienne,” says Madame Manec from the other side of the kitchen, “when you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water?” “You will tell us, I am sure.” “It jumps out. But do you know what happens when you put the frog in a pot of cool water and then slowly bring it to a boil? You know what happens then?” Marie-Laure waits. The potatoes steam. Madame Manec says, “The frog cooks.”
Chapter 116: The Bridge
“The war that killed your grandfather killed sixteen million others. One and a half million French boys alone, most of them younger than I was. Two million on the German side. March the dead in a single-file line, and for eleven days and eleven nights, they’d walk past our door. This is not rearranging street signs, what we’re doing, Marie. This is not misplacing a letter at the post office. These numbers, they’re more than numbers. Do you understand?” “But we are the good guys. Aren’t we, Uncle?” “I hope so. I hope we are.”