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Summary: Wartime soldiers are soldiers for life.
Review: Before I read this novel, I had the usual romantic picture of war; images of glory and winning. This book profoundly affected my thinking on the subject and I have come to understand the ravages of war. Being a young person myself, reading about Paul Baumer makes the reality of war even more terrifying because I know what happened in WWI can happen now at any time. This novel should be read by all of the world's leaders in order to insure that the ugliness of war NEVER pervades our planet again.
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Summary: one of the greatest books ever
Review: I feel that this is on of the best books that has ever been writen about war. It is about a young man who changes during the first world war. I thik that this book tells what really happens to a person during a war. The book has a great message. I hope that every one has a chance to read this book.
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Summary: A moving account of the "Lost Generation"
Review: I was a student of history looking for any kind of historic account of WWI. What I found was a moving piece of literature. This book made me think I was in the trenchs with Kat and the boys.What makes this book so good is you live the times through a young man. While you get to know him personally you see what times where like. It really tells you why it was called the "Lost Generation". This book does have a strong message but never feels like propaganda. The best thing about the book is it makes as much sense now as it did 70 years ago. Its message about war is something we should all learn. I hope you read the book.
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Summary: DON'T WAIT
Review: I was supposed to read this novel around 25 years ago, for a high school English class, and decided to skip it and just read the back cover and take notes in class. Turns out the joke was on me. I finally got around to reading this classic book, and let's just say that it's all the good things you've heard about and will read about below. The story is told simply but powerfully. One memorable scene follows another, and the battle scenes are particularly strong and at times even overpowering. But somehow the strongest scenes describe our protagonist--Paul's--thoughts when he realizes, during quieter moments, such as when on leave, that the war has changed him and made him no longer able to fit into society. And the scene where Paul shares a shellhole with a dying French soldier, and contemplates on the brotherhood of man, and on our universal commonality, and of the utter uselessness of war, is so memorable that...well, if you don't get a lump in your throat while reading this scene, you're better than me! Me recommending this book to you is like someone saying "Citizen Kane" is a good movie or that the Beatles were a swell group. Let's just say that if you deprive yourself of this emotionally moving reading experience, as I did for so many years, you'll really be missing out. 'Nuff said.
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Summary: It was great!
Review: I loved this book. I had to read it in Grade 9 and I'm glad my teacher chose it. I will never forget about the experiences Paul encountered. True friendship, and confusion. Everyone should read it, in fact I should read it again!
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Summary: A great book about WWI and how it affects our lives.
Review: A great book! Not just for the reasons stated by the other reviewers - the futility of war between nations but also for the camaraderie and lives of Baumer and his buddies. There is a sense of loss in their young lives - and after the war their peers went on to make the so called "lost generation". Baumer has some fine humorous touches with how they took care of the rats, including the biggest one: Himmelstoss. A great and poignant read.
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Summary: A stunning piece of art
Review: I had to read this novel for my Gifted Literature class at school and I have a totally different view on life now. It is by far the greatest war novel of all time. I think it will hold that standard for every coming age. You must read it.
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Summary: This Book, Like War, Will Change You
Review: Paul Baumer goes into war as most do - a green kid. He is changed into someone different -- as War changes all it touches. And as War changes all it touches, this book will change you.
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Summary: A great anti-war novel
Review: All Quiet on the Western Front brings to life horrors that hopefully most of us will never live through. We all know that war is horrible because it involves the killing of other human beings, but what this novel does is tell us why it is more horrible than even that. War sweeps away the society we have always trusted, the society that has always set our morals and our standards, and it replaces this with death and destruction. In the face of death, all the things that we formerly have stood for vanish, and nothing is left to live for. This is what Paul Baumer realizes, and this is why so many of our servicemen come back never to be the same again.
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Summary: It is the best World War I book written!!!
Review: All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the best WWI novels ever written. I felt so deeply submerged into the pages of the book as if I was living out Paul's actions and life with him throughout the story. I highly recommend the book to all who have not read it. It starts so typical of a book of its caliber, yet it ends so abrupt, with all dead, almost like a Greek tragedy put into a modern day situation. Much sadness fill Paul's life during the war. Even though Paul sides with the Germans, we sympathize for him. Paul could almost be classified as a tragic hero, if looked at ananylitically. If everyone could and would only read this book I think we would all learn something about world history, it repeats! Paul's and the other characters continuing hard times show us the very brinks of human life. They bring us to the very question of whether war is the right way to settle things. One major theme should be emphasized about this book. It is that "War does not decide who is right, but only who is left." The Germans thought of themselves as right, we thought of ourselves as right, in the end of the novel we learn the Allies prevail, but not making one side more correct than the other. Thousands of lives were lost, and this is seen at a first hand basis in the novel. Get the point, read the novel learn a lot, take a lot away from it, and apply it to the world, and maybe one day we will come to the realization of what war really is as described in "All Quiet on the Western Front."
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