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Summary: Disquieting
Review: "All Quiet on the Western Front" tells the story of a group of young, idealistic German youth who volunteer for the war on the preachings of their teacher. The story focuses on the narrator, Paul Baumer, as he and his friends come face to face with the horrors of war that the older generation will never experience. Abruptly, thier idealistic notions are shattered as they encounter the newest monstrosities of war - tanks, airplanes, machine guns, gas, etc... that destroy not only lives, but the spirits of those who are "lucky" enough to survive.At times poetic, Erich Maria Remarque's novel doesn't depict war as glorious or noble. His soldiers question their reason for fighting and long for a home that will never be the same after the war. When the main character receives a leave for home, he finds it more damaging than restoring. In the front lines, he can live with what he sees because he doesn't think about it. At home, everyone has the wrong idea of war - how noble their actions are, how easy winning should be - and dwelling on these thoughts, the soldier cannot bear the sights he sees when he returns to war. He cannot handle the killing. Remarque has his narrator speak of the disparity between fighting and life - how after the war, nothing will be the same for this generation of young soldiers, barely out of their teens; their life now is made up of death. As an avid fan of anything relating to WWI and WWII, this book speaks volumes to just how horrific and unexpectedly devastating WWI was to an entire generation. Knowing the experiences of other soldiers (such as the soldier-poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen) allows Remarque's narrative to resonanate all the more deeply. His novel could very well be the beginning signal of what we've come to call "the lost generation." For indeed, these soldiers are lost.
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Summary: Less than interesting, but very educational
Review: All Quiet on the Western Front is a great book to read for anyone. That is if you dont mind reading unnecissary repetition.
Although the same thing seems to happen over and over again in this book, it is still a great anti-war book that teaches a lot about the horrors of war and pushes the reader to look beyond the drawing boards of war and see it for what it really is. For this, I give All Quiet on the Western Front a little above average rating of three stars.
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Summary: All Quiet
Review: All quiet was a slow book in the beginning but picked up after they got all the people in the book introduced. The names of some of the boys in this book were hard to remember and I got confused in some parts. The book was kind of repetitive but showed the reader a lot about war. I would recommend this book.
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Summary: All Quiet
Review: All quiet gives you an in depth look at war and what it does to a person both physically and mentally. It starts out slow but picks up as you continue to read. Overall I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: True War
Review: This is one of the all time greatest anti-war books. Erich Maria Remarque uses the cruelty of war to show its true horror. I really enjoyed how the story is not about so high ranking official but of a normal foot solder. It allows one to see war for how it is for the masses and not for the leader of a country. It does get a little repetitive in some places but its pros greatly out weigh it cons. This book should be read by every one at least once, so they can see war as it really is.
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Summary: All Quiet On the Western Front
Review: I am a student at Walla Walla High School. I chose to read All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Remarque, in my senior English class. I think everbody should read this book, just becuase it is a story of an average soilder and how they live. People watch televsion and think war is that way, but when you get on the front line it is totally different, soilders face different missions and problems everday. They are brave, not afraid to die, and they try to defend there country. I think Erich Remarque did a great job on getting the real story about war. Every senior English class should read this book.
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Summary: All Quiet an Anti War Spectacular
Review: After finishing All Quiet, I have a whole new out look on war. My favorite thing about this book is the way Remarque wrote it and how incredibly realistic it is. It is not about heroes or victories but of the struggle for a group of teenage boys who join World War 1 and are totally unexpected for what they are about to take part in. If I had the choice to read it again I definatly would but I would pay more attention to the things happening.
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Summary: Silence is golden...
Review: Between the covers of Remarque's most famous novel, there is many lessons to be learned and opinions to be pondered. I recently read this, and loved it. Well written indeed, however, what caught my attention most about this book is the colorful displays of a man and his friends 'growing up' in a war that is entirely for their benefit. Knowing nothing other than the war has caused the boys to grow only knowing war, not of other things most 18-22 year old males would have been doing between 1914-1919. Beautiful commentary of our main character's thoughts and emotions brings a human perspective to the text and almost makes you feel as if you are living vicariously in war torn France. I rated this book as a 4 because i felt that it ended much to quick and left a bad taste in my mouth because of it. Best to be borrowed from a library, in my opinion.
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Summary: For all the warmongers...
Review: If you ever thought that war was heroic or chivalry, reading this book could change your point of view forever.
This is one of the most incredible books ever written on the horrors of war lived through the eyes of a 20 years old young german.
No surprise this book was burned and forbidden by the Nazi regime.
Read it, buy it, this is a Masterpiece.
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Summary: The truth about war
Review: The latest book that I have read is "All Quiet on the Western Front".
This is a book telling about a boy name Paul and his whole classmates going into the First World War. Erich Remarque the author of the book had also experienced the painful cruelty of World War I. The story started out with passion, all the students wanted to go to the front line and have some action. They were called "Iron Youth", meaning the hope of the country. But the war was totally different from what they thought...
This book allowed me to glimpse some of the truth that the government had concealed during the war. The government didn't want the families at home to know the truth about the front line so more people would join the army. Once people joined the army, there is no way back home, accept losing a part of your body. War is not a game we play; it's not like some movies that everyone fighting with passion and for love, it's just a painful death. Because of the technological advances before the war, more deadly weapons such as chemistry warfare were invented and used in war, more unpleasant sights came to war, and I think this is why some soldiers that came back from war unable to speak for a long time.
People that had lived through wars like grandmother and grandfather the first generation of the family; they would always say that war is terrible and wanted us to avoid it. But some modem teenagers might think that war is cool the cool guns and action. These ideals might come from the computer games we play. The author wanted people to know that war is terrible, so people in the future won't easily follow in the same steps.
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