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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Occasionally I get emotionally involved with a book. I’m not talking about getting choked up or weepy. I’m talking about the few times that a book comes along and burrows deep into my conscience and I know I will remember it for the rest of my life. This doesn’t happen often, but when it does its great. One of the reasons I read is the hope that the next book will be a story that changes me inside. All Quiet on the Western Front is such a book. It drives home the horror that is war in simple plain language as told by a young combat soldier. A gripping story about a young man who enters a war zone at 18 years old and is mentally altered from his old life and will never be the same person again.
A couple of quotes I found interesting-
“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.�
� Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.�
� Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
A couple of quotes I found interesting-
“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.�
� Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.�
� Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
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Reading Progress
December 8, 2014
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December 8, 2014
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January 2, 2015
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20th-century-classics
August 6, 2015
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August 8, 2015
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44.69%
""The front is a cage in which we must await fearfully whatever may happen. We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. Over us, Chance hovers. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall."
Excellent read so far!"
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Excellent read so far!"
August 9, 2015
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August 10, 2015
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Aug 10, 2015 11:53AM
I love the second quote. Glad to see this book had such an impact on you!
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Magnificent review Bob. Poignant quotations. I've never thought of reading this...now I must (be a while though)
Excellent review. I can relate to both quote as I have a picture of my grandfather who as a 18 year old farmer's son from Southern Bavaria had to go to war under Hitler's orders and he looks very scared to death and as if he knew that within months he would have been captured by Russian soldiers, sent to Siberia and would only return as a very broken human being in the late 1950s. What a waste.
He wrote several other books. I've only read this one and Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country, which was decent, but nothing is going to come close to All Quiet on the Western Front.
