All Quiet on the Western Front

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Summary: A great book and a must read!
Review: You have got to read this book. i am in 9th grade and i read it for a book report. The book is hard to understand at least it was for me cause i'm young, but the book just continues to get better and better. it is graphic, but i believe that is neccassary for this book to describe the war as it was. if you read the book make you sure you read it all and go slowly to take it all in, because if you do the end will get you and absolutely crush you.

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Summary: The horrid reality...
Review: Reading "All Quiet on the Western Front" gave this non-combatant, in a small way, the imagery to sense the madness and horror which is a part of war. Remarque does a fine job with revieling other facets of war and their effects. This book reaffirmed my gratitude in personally never having to experience war, and in the respect I have for those who have seen war. My last comment: Not only should this book be required reading for high school students, but maybe it should be made mandatory reading for the leaders and politicians of the world.

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Summary: it very well written
Review: IT IS VERY GOOD AND THATS IT

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Summary: The most impressing story I've ever read.
Review: Remarque is still one of the most famous writers , just because of this book. The story of the youngster Paul and his comrads has impressed me like no other. The horror of war , the daily fear in hundreds of bloody massacres and the brutality becoming part of everyday-life are described in a fascinating way of slightly pathetic realism. It shows how a young man with dreams and hopes is being put in a world where emotions can be deadly and making you insane. Everybody, who wants to know what war really means should read this book.

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Summary: I see one of them ,his face upturned ,fall into wire cradle.
Review: I am sixteen year old from Kosova and had just readen this book.This book showes war in realy realistic light.I was a direct witnes of the war . Iexperienced every thing that Poul did in the novel even though 16 year old Who want to now how the war is realy like read All quiet on the western front

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Summary: This book suxs
Review: If u feel like having the life bored out of u read this book.°¿°. My heart goes out to the soldiers and I truly think what they did was marvell~ous, but this book, spare me. :{

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Summary: A generation's youthful vigor is destroyed by the war.
Review: The fictional character, Paul Baumer, annihilates the then-popular notion that warfare and ultra-nationalism is glorious and gallant--on the contrary, the murderous slaughter of idealistic young men on both sides of no mans land results in not only the loss of life and limb, but also in the obliteration of youthful idealism and hope. The book centers on seven German army volunteers who were schoolmates back in a provincial hochschule that later experience a rapid psycho-social aging process from which they never return. Their embattled souls and hearts are beyond human redemption--the once youthful fervor for life fades away with each artillery explosion and carries with it little hope for its' reemergence. Remarque writes his masterpiece using descriptive yet readable prose and his account of the seven young soldiers is hauntingly descriptive of the angst, hopelessness, and horror that paralyzed an entire generation.

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Summary: A must read for every would-be statesman
Review: This is certainly one of the best novels I've ever read. I thought it was a story about humanity and the lack of humaneness, how battle strips a person of every human quality and turns him into nothing but a piece of machinery in the mechanics of war. Remarque's stark descriptions of battle were frightenly devoid of euphemism. After reading this book, I'm afraid the romance of war has been spoiled for me - and I feel sure that was the author's intention. A must read for every would-be statesman.

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Summary: Definitely the best war novel of all time!
Review: This beats out The Red badge of Courage for the best war novel ever. Paul is a gullible student who is swept into Germany's WWI war fervor and enlists with his class. But he finds that war isn't just walking around in a bright uniform with people waving at you. The horrors of mechanized warfare take their toll on his sanity. A very good social commentary.

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Summary: A Thoughtful Book
Review: I picked this book up off of my dad's shelf a week ago, and loved it. I for one did not consider it exiting, but more of a mental journal, in which the narriator conveys his deepest thoughts while it the middle of senceless violent action. This book will surely display some paragraphs and images you will want to mull over and make note of. It is a great novel.