All Quiet on the Western Front

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Summary: classic
Review: I believe this book is the greatest war novel of our time. It displays the courage it takes to get through a war

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Summary: Still powerful !
Review: All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the best war novels ever written. Of recent efforts, only the Naked and the Dead and The Triumph and the Glory come even close to matching this memorable account of trench warfare in The Great War.

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Summary: AWESOME
Review: Hemingway is child's play. Crane is a joke. Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy--step up to the plate. Read this book, if not for its detail, for its honesty. Remarqe looks into the face of war unflinching and takes you with him into the trenches. If you gave this book a bad review, you need to read it again. Aside from Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, the best book I've read to date, and I've read a lot of books

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Summary: finest story on paper
Review: I am 15 years old, and was assigned to read this book for an english class. I found it an extremely powerful and moving piece. I read many reviews and was shocked and disgusted when people said they found the book to be boring. Theis book shows us to the finist detail the horrors and war, and how heinous the deaths were. Written by Remarques's, a was vetern who through his own experience shows us the realities of war. How can you be bored, and be willing to toss this book aside? This is what happened to men fighting for these countries during the war. How can you now be touched and be left in a state of awe that seventy years ago this is what happened to our youth, and is now reoccuring today. The situations are worse due to more knowledge and the advance in warfare. To not be engulfed in this story and feel the pain of these men you must be without a soul.

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Summary: This book is great.
Review: This book is great. I saw a T.V. show on dicovery about the Weastern Fornt so I read the book. It is my all time favorit book.

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Summary: Some insight into the Emotional and Physical Reality of War
Review: I did not feel like I was able to get much out of this book other than some of the harsh realities of war. I found all the stories to be repetitive thematically. While it was better than say Crane's THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE, it was not conveyed as intensly. Remarque uses simple words to try and convey powerful intense emotions, which was only somewhat effective. I did like reading something from the point of the losing Germans, but I found it still dull. Possibly someone who was in World War II or in live combat situations would appreciate more the great losses suffered by the protagonist.

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Summary: The worst book I have ever read
Review: I had to read this book as a school assignement, as the book was being passed out to the class I had a glimps of the cover and almost threw up. Right from the beginning I knew that it was crap. The whole book talks about old men playing cards on margirine tubs and having bowl movements twenty four hours a day. Now I have to write a report on it and trust me it won't be a positive one. From rats to crap I give this book a 0.1 / 10, zero being the worst. I'd use up all 1,000 words that I am aloud to use but I just be repeating how much this book sucks . . . .

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Summary: the story of Paul and his friends in the war
Review: This book was excellent. I always love to read about wars but once i finished this one it blew every book i ever read away. The imagery in this book is amazing. Erich Remarque went to painstaking detail to give us the full picture whether it was from someone sleeping or someone's leg being amputated and the feel of the pain. It really made you think about how serious war's were and still are. You always hear about it but it never really crosses your mind the mental pain alone they have to go through let alone the physical. Erich Remarque described how they missed their families and how they yearned for love but what they wanted was no where to be found. Paul and his friends were so happy and felt lucky to have two cigarettes in their hand. That just goes to show you how horrible the conditons were during the war. This is a great book to read even if you're not into war books. Just give it a try.

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Summary: A must read
Review: I loved this book, I can compare it to one of my favorite books, Ender's Game. Both books protray the struggle of young people. Both characters are thrown into situations in which they loose their inocence. I especialy love the ending to the book, I just stayed up all night after reading it. It took me all day to comprihend the underlying reason, it just sruck me and I didn't soon recover.

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Summary: All Quiet... quickly became the best book I've ever read!
Review: We had to read All Quiet on the Western Front for school, and I thought that it would be boring. I'm not into war novels at all. But I really got into this book! You won't want to put it down. I finished it in two days, and had I not had to eat, sleep, and go to school, I would have finished it in one! I even liked it so much that I ran out and bought the sequel. At first my classmates thought I was crazy, but then they got into it too. Now they all want to barrow the sequal from me! This book really opens your eyes to the reality of war, and at the same time entertains you with great characters. I loved it!