Nitrox

I expected this book to be a non-sensical mixture of pseudoscience and mysticism, that relies on half-understood concepts of quantum mechanics to prove its point.
However, Capra separately describes important discoveries and key experiments in modern physics in an intuitive way and seems not to leave out important points.
The description of the concepts of Eastern mysticism, however, fall short and are largely superficial and general.
The synthesis of both is also quite vague and only relies on seemingly similar view points or expressions that happen to be the same in both physics and mysticism. The descriptions of both sides, and of the connection between both could be considerably longer and more detailled.
4 stars because the physics part covers most important and interesting topics of modern physics (special relativity, general relativity, wave-particle duality, atomic model, elementary particles, ...) and explains them for the layperson in such a way, that the gist (and why this was a revolution) can be understood, without losing much of the scientific rigor of the formulation.

All Men Are Enemies is an impressive mixture of romance, philosophy, social critique, politics and history, all from the perspective of an visionary adolescent.

Reading it with the assumption of it being just another romance, it has impressed me greatly with the allusions to classical literature, religion and political ideas and its somewhat easy-to-read but not quite simple style. The deep conflict between doing what is expected and normal and doing what one loves to do is expressed vividly and captivatingly.

A page turner which leaves the reader with a different, slightly depressing but encouraging view on his own future.