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June Group Read: All The Light We Cannot See
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last updated Jul 10, 2016 06:59AM
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Mar 05, 2016
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Finally, finally, finally after two months struggling to finish this book. I made it to the last page! Yeay!!!
It’s not that I didn’t enjoy the book. It’s good and captivating. So beautifully written like a poetry until it is a little dragging and somehow it makes me feel that war is “amazing”!!! Amazingly destroying every creatures back then at the World War II, which became the main setting of the story.
Honestly, I already had my own prediction about the story. Having known there are two main ...more
It’s not that I didn’t enjoy the book. It’s good and captivating. So beautifully written like a poetry until it is a little dragging and somehow it makes me feel that war is “amazing”!!! Amazingly destroying every creatures back then at the World War II, which became the main setting of the story.
Honestly, I already had my own prediction about the story. Having known there are two main ...more

Sejak belajar cara membangun cerita yang baik dan benar, anggapanku soal karya fiksi yang bagus terdoktrin. Cerita yang bagus itu harus jelas act structure-nya: inciting incident, act II, midpoint, lost it all, act III, resolution, ending. Sungguh naif. Dalam pengalamannya, ada karya fiksi yang tidak terlihat arah ceritanya, tapi masih bisa dinikmati setiap chapter-nya. All the Light We Cannot See salah satunya.
Buku ini dibuka dengan adegan Amerika yang mencoba merebut Saint Malo, Perancis, yang ...more
Buku ini dibuka dengan adegan Amerika yang mencoba merebut Saint Malo, Perancis, yang ...more

Dari segi cerita, tema yang diangkat sangatlah bagus. Tentang apa yang dialami segelintir orang pada saat perang dunia kedua terjadi. Sebelum ini aku hanya membayangkan bom dan penembakan dimana-mana saat perang, tidak sampai membayangkan beban psikologis sesedih ini. Padahal cuma 2 tokoh yang diceritakan namun sudah cukup memporak porandakan perasaan pembaca.
Diceritakan secara maju mundur dan dari sudut pandang orang ketiga, kehidupan Marie-Laure dan Werner diceritakan secara paralel. Sehingga ...more
Diceritakan secara maju mundur dan dari sudut pandang orang ketiga, kehidupan Marie-Laure dan Werner diceritakan secara paralel. Sehingga ...more

“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”-Marie-Laure
And again, and again from this story i learned that, war is not a wise way to get an autorithy, to get a power, it just remains loss.
I do love this book. I've never read any of historical romance stories as beautiful as this is.
At first, it took me so long to finish the 500 pages of the book. GAH! PLEASE HELP ME TO FINISH THIS! Because of- first, the story-line drive me crazy it written ...more
And again, and again from this story i learned that, war is not a wise way to get an autorithy, to get a power, it just remains loss.
I do love this book. I've never read any of historical romance stories as beautiful as this is.
At first, it took me so long to finish the 500 pages of the book. GAH! PLEASE HELP ME TO FINISH THIS! Because of- first, the story-line drive me crazy it written ...more

this was totally an "it's not you, it's me" kind of book for me...
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