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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.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Remarque, Im Westen Nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) - 26/04/2011 06:16:11 PM 8255 Views
I read it when I was probably too young, too. - 26/04/2011 06:36:07 PM 1711 Views
The last chapters really seem rushed to me, even now. - 26/04/2011 06:43:23 PM 1646 Views
I want to read it now, so I think this was a good review. - 26/04/2011 08:03:30 PM 1764 Views
I find Steinbeck hard to digest. - 27/04/2011 05:05:45 AM 1623 Views
Travels with Charley is indeed great. - 27/04/2011 06:06:18 AM 1731 Views
He can also be inconsistent, but that makes him interesting to me. - 27/04/2011 06:47:25 AM 1887 Views
Whyever not? - 27/04/2011 07:13:56 PM 1713 Views
I was going to say that too - 27/04/2011 08:23:36 PM 1549 Views
Be sure to read the two books that immediately follow it - 26/04/2011 11:41:53 PM 1790 Views
The latter of the two is already on my "to read" list. - 27/04/2011 05:03:49 AM 1550 Views
Love that book - 27/04/2011 04:49:51 PM 1581 Views
Wait... - 27/04/2011 04:58:58 PM 1607 Views
Wow - 27/04/2011 10:17:55 PM 1742 Views
*NM* - 28/04/2011 09:18:26 PM 779 Views

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