Be sure to read the two books that immediately follow it
Larry Send a noteboard - 26/04/2011 11:41:53 PM
Der Weg zurück and Drei Kameraden deepen some of the story (especially the first, which briefly references Paul's comrades), plus it explains even more why the Nazis banned the book and drove Remarque into exile.
I first read it at 18 and it moved me then toward becoming almost an anti-war person (not an activist; I'm not that absolute and have some realization of the terrible joke that is armed conflict). Most of his other books are good to very good, but not quite as devastating to read.
I first read it at 18 and it moved me then toward becoming almost an anti-war person (not an activist; I'm not that absolute and have some realization of the terrible joke that is armed conflict). Most of his other books are good to very good, but not quite as devastating to read.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Remarque, Im Westen Nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)
- 26/04/2011 06:16:11 PM
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I want to read it now, so I think this was a good review.
- 26/04/2011 08:03:30 PM
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I find Steinbeck hard to digest.
- 27/04/2011 05:05:45 AM
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He can also be inconsistent, but that makes him interesting to me.
- 27/04/2011 06:47:25 AM
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Be sure to read the two books that immediately follow it
- 26/04/2011 11:41:53 PM
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*NM*