All the Light We Cannot See

No, the narrator makes too many jarring errors of pronunciation.

Too many mispronunciations. For example, navy - in a passage describing how huge trees were cut down to make masts for ships - the French & British navies become "navvies". Seriously - why didn't someone stop her? So many mistakes I found myself calling out the correction "Not 'straff' - STRAFE!" Just hope I didn't do it on the train.

It's up in the top five. My book club - I'm 7 years in this book club....... - voted it the best book we had ever read..... Now!

I suppose "The Girl who Dropped from the Sky" covered a similar epoch.

i'm a convert to audiobooks because of the acting/voicing talents of the narrators/actors/actresses. It's like the difference between a b/w and 3D colour movie for me. The narrator is a huge contributor to the enjoyment of the book.

Historical Fiction at its very best

Now I'll have to ensure I visit St-Malo sometime soon in the future, to see the actual geography being writing about. I wonder does no.4 Rue Voberelle exist....???? Will I be able to resist walking the beach and looking in the ocean for the sea of Flames.......

I want to thank Anthony Doerr for his talent. I searched the internet for a way to contact him to personally thank him for this book..no luck...so I hope he gets to read my thanks here.

I'm a bit of an audio book junkie and have listened to many many books over two decades. I'd say that this is in my top 12. It is an extraordinary novel. Well worth the hype.

I liked how two stories ran parallel and then towards the end the main characters crossed paths. Our hero learned the lesson of doing things and making decisions based not on who is right but rather what is right. Late in the day he redeemed himself and made a values led decision.

Her diction. And her pacing and pausing.

Yes and I got terribly engrossed in the lives of the characters. In a similar vein to Poisonwoodwood Bible, Alone in Berlin, People of the Book, Wilkie Collin's No Name and John Hersey's White Lotus (and many others)- I didn't want this novel to end.

Thank you Audible and thank you Ms Teal and above all thank you Mr Doerr.

Technically exquisite writing - esp from the close pov of the blind girl - and the research a little too heavy to always convince as the characters' knowledge and not the writer unable to resist sharing his long hours in the library, but a story both epic and intimate, sustained and sincere, if sentimental. The narrator is almost comically inadequate. That she struggles with French and German words I can understand - but English, too? Navvies, noted in a review above, is a favourite, but her pronunciation of 'extravagance' is the best, and may outlast the memory of the book itself for me. Wasn't anybody at the recording listening to her? These errors were so numerous I decided to make them added pleasures, but, yes, the writer and the readers deserve better.

This book more than met my expectations. The story was very moving and extremely well told. I would recommend it.

This has to be my all time favourite buy from Audible, excellently written with almost peotic prose and well drawn characters. It centres around a young girl, Maire-Laure, who has a degenerative eye condition, and a young German boy, Werner, who are both in occupied France during WW2. The story floats backwards and forwards, starting from the siege of St Malo and ending in 1974, interweaving the lives of Marie-Laura and Werner and dragging you into a world of Jules Verne, radios and airwaves. Absolutely beautiful, poignant and one that stays with you. I don`t mind admitting I actually put off listening to the last hour of it because I seriously did not want it to end!!

Yes, oh indeed yes! Why can't some Readers be bothered to check basic pronunciation in foreign languages? It is so sloppy and unprofessional. Sometimes a Reader gives a consummate performance and one is left breathless with admiration for their mastery of different voices, for their fluency and, above all, for their managing to pronounce names and words from other countries and their languages correctly. But this is not the case with Julie Teal. Her ignorance is astounding. Surely she has heard the word 'Führer' pronounced elsewhere? Or commonplace French forenames such as Etienne? If not, then the producer, or someone should take the trouble to correct her, or she should take the trouble to find out. It can absolutely ruin a book and is thoroughly irritating.

Perhaps, as the story is quite good, though pretty trite at times, and definitely overwritten. It is superfluous to give two or even three adjectives to qualify so many of the nouns. 'Less is more' sometimes!

Her pronunciation above all. However, it wasn't her fault that the short, choppy style in places makes it very hard to carry the story along with any fluidity. But her voice and register range is very limited and she makes far too little differentiation between some of the main characters' voices.

No!

I did enjoy some of the incidental detail woven around gemmology, radio transmitters and receivers, the works of Jules Verne and so forth.

I would give the narrator 9/10 for her reading of this novel. There were a couple of strange pronunciations (mitochondria is one I remember) but overall very good.

The characters, they were wonderful. Loved the relationship between Marie-Laure, her father, Uncle Etiennne and the housekeeper. Werner was well drawn, and I really gained a sense of his inner conflict, especially in his relationship with his friend Frederick at the Reich training school. Good research by the author.

None in particular, there were so many.

Marie-Laure's experiences in the attic of the house towards the end of the siege of Saint-Malo

Beautifully written, lyrical prose by a very talented writer.I have only given the story 4 stars because of the last few chapters and the ending. I didn't like the rapid transition to the present day, felt it quite spoiled the whole ambience of the novel.

it was sensitively written and had a super story

my dear i wanted to tell you. also about the war but more about the characters in it

every one of them

impossible because i wanted to re listen every sentence

a book set in the war but not about war.

A Wonderful story depicting the horror of war in an picture of innocent minds. It has a few disturbing moments but war has a lot more. It also has window to the influence good books can have on young minds and a hint at the end to how we might be losing that. I truly enjoyed this book.