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5.0 out of 5 stars A Powerful and Heartbreaking Portrait of War
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fast shipping
Good read for middle schoolers.
5.0 out of 5 stars A Requirement to Read
For someone who is interested in war novels, this one is a requirement to read. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is an excellent novel about the First World War. One of the first books published about the war it was one of the first insights of life in the trenches. This novel gave people sometimes there first experience of what it was like. Leading the way for writers and filmmakers to visualize it. All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the best books ever written for its overall imagery that’s gives a vivid image of all the aspects of life as a soldier in World War One.Paul Baumer is 18 years old and has just finished school when the war began. His schoolmaster encouraged him and his classmates to enlist for it was there divine duty to Germany. Soon in just the first week half of them are dead now being stuck in a trench surrounded by artillery bombardment. One interesting use the book does is how the protagonist is a German soldier as well being written by a German soldier. Many consider Germany as the enemy during the Great War so having a German enlisted man gives a shape to opinion of those who read it. How all the armies whether German, French, British or Russian, every soldier was a man with a life suffering in war. Another is how it tells all the aspect of a soldier in World War one. The book does not tell the whole story inside the trenches as Paul Baumer experiences other parts of life during warfare. When Paul goes on leave returning home, when he worked at a prisoner of war camp, when he was hospitalized surrounded by slowly dying men. Each moment gives a visual and emotional pull of how each felt. The last is its use of imagery. This novel cares one of the best uses of imagery in how it tells life in the trenches. How men spend months living in holes full of mud with only rations to eat and nothing to entertain oneself but small talk and cigarettes. How you could die at any moment in dozens of ways by artillery, gas, snipers, disease or just standing three inches to far to the left at the wrong time. The book doesn’t just say what happens but the emotional aspect it as well. How Paul describes how you must separate your emotions fully from yourself because if you think to hard where you are, you will go crazy. In the war Paul says “there is no liberation, no freedom, no pride, only death.”All Quit on the Western Front is a book everyone should read whether there are interested in war or not. It is a lesson of how horrible war really is and how the only thing it brings in the end is death. Everyone should know what the war was like. That it was much more than just starting WWII, a war long ago that doesn’t matter anymore, or how that could only happen during that time. The Great War changed the world forever and if we are not careful it could happen again.
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book even to this day
Hard to read without getting a lump in your throat and taking a brake now and then.But still well worth the read and the heart felt sorrow..
4.0 out of 5 stars Labeled "The Greatest War Novel of all Time"
Surprisingly, this is one of the few novels concerning World War I that I have found worth reading. It is widely acclaimed as "The Greatest War Novel of all Time." It may seem trite in this day and time to label a novel as "anti-war". However, this novel was written in the years immediately after World War I, a time when in many circles, war was deemed to be a glorious endeavor and romanticized, especially by those non-participants with little actual knowledge of events on "the front". While the American Civil War should have opened the eyes of potential combatants to the certainty of mass carnage presented by new technology coupled with classic military theory and technique, the European powers nevertheless stumbled blindly into the abyss.This is a VERY short novel, verging on novella. While it comes in at 295 pages, they are small pages with large type and wide spacing. It can easily be read in a single afternoon. As such, there is very little story development, apart from numerous vignettes involving Paul Baumer, a young German private, and his compatriots in the trenches. Again, the prose, while somewhat mild in current times, would have been shocking to the readers of the day. An example:Haie Westhus drags off with a great wound in his back through which thelung pulses at every breath.... We see men living with their skulls blown open;we see soldiers run with their two feet cut off, they stagger on theirsplintered stumps into the next shell hole; a lance corporal crawls a mile anda half on his hands dragging his smashed knee after him; another goes to thedressing station and over his clasped hands bulge his intestines; we see menwithout mouths, without jaws, without faces; we find one man who has held theartery of his arm in his teeth for two hours in order not to bleed to death.Such things just were not discussed in polite company. It's all here: the blood and guts; the horrifying injuries, amputations and pre-antiseptic gangrene; the rats; the putrefying and spoiled food which was eaten anyway by starving troops; the dysentery; the ignorance of the German people who cling to the ideal of glorious warfare. But through it all shines the humanity of Paul and his childhood friends, as they succumb one by one.After several succeeding wars, many of which became unpopular, and hundreds of books and movies which spotlight the actual conditions faced by front line troops, this novel has lost much of its originality and shock power. Though it must be said, it was the first and it remains powerful even to this day.
5.0 out of 5 stars still great, this many years later
a true masterpiece
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing to read
This book just gets better the more you read it. A true war story.
Great book
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Classic
This is a must have. The book, though translated, reads like a book written natively in English. The "adventures" (or better said as lack of adventure) shown depict an aspect of warfare we commonly overlook. The book displays the destruction of warfare, and changes your view of the world. This is a must havebif you want to learn to see the humanistic factors of any disaster. The book is also much better than the movie, and the plot is completely different. Seriously, why is the movie named after the book if the plots are different?
There would have been no wars
If only the Europeans all sides had read this book. I think things should have changed. There would have been no Second World War. There would have been no Holocaust, there would have been no Israel. The world would have been a more peaceful place. There would have been no Hiroshima
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2 stars for the quality of material.
The print quality and paper quality is really bad. It's a mass market paperback in it's true sense. It seems like pages would come loose even before I finish reading the book.This review is for the mass market paperback, sold by cloud tail and published by ballantine.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Powerful and Heartbreaking Portrait of War
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fast shipping
Good read for middle schoolers.
5.0 out of 5 stars A Requirement to Read
For someone who is interested in war novels, this one is a requirement to read. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is an excellent novel about the First World War. One of the first books published about the war it was one of the first insights of life in the trenches. This novel gave people sometimes there first experience of what it was like. Leading the way for writers and filmmakers to visualize it. All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the best books ever written for its overall imagery that’s gives a vivid image of all the aspects of life as a soldier in World War One.Paul Baumer is 18 years old and has just finished school when the war began. His schoolmaster encouraged him and his classmates to enlist for it was there divine duty to Germany. Soon in just the first week half of them are dead now being stuck in a trench surrounded by artillery bombardment. One interesting use the book does is how the protagonist is a German soldier as well being written by a German soldier. Many consider Germany as the enemy during the Great War so having a German enlisted man gives a shape to opinion of those who read it. How all the armies whether German, French, British or Russian, every soldier was a man with a life suffering in war. Another is how it tells all the aspect of a soldier in World War one. The book does not tell the whole story inside the trenches as Paul Baumer experiences other parts of life during warfare. When Paul goes on leave returning home, when he worked at a prisoner of war camp, when he was hospitalized surrounded by slowly dying men. Each moment gives a visual and emotional pull of how each felt. The last is its use of imagery. This novel cares one of the best uses of imagery in how it tells life in the trenches. How men spend months living in holes full of mud with only rations to eat and nothing to entertain oneself but small talk and cigarettes. How you could die at any moment in dozens of ways by artillery, gas, snipers, disease or just standing three inches to far to the left at the wrong time. The book doesn’t just say what happens but the emotional aspect it as well. How Paul describes how you must separate your emotions fully from yourself because if you think to hard where you are, you will go crazy. In the war Paul says “there is no liberation, no freedom, no pride, only death.”All Quit on the Western Front is a book everyone should read whether there are interested in war or not. It is a lesson of how horrible war really is and how the only thing it brings in the end is death. Everyone should know what the war was like. That it was much more than just starting WWII, a war long ago that doesn’t matter anymore, or how that could only happen during that time. The Great War changed the world forever and if we are not careful it could happen again.
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book even to this day
Hard to read without getting a lump in your throat and taking a brake now and then.But still well worth the read and the heart felt sorrow..
4.0 out of 5 stars Labeled "The Greatest War Novel of all Time"
Surprisingly, this is one of the few novels concerning World War I that I have found worth reading. It is widely acclaimed as "The Greatest War Novel of all Time." It may seem trite in this day and time to label a novel as "anti-war". However, this novel was written in the years immediately after World War I, a time when in many circles, war was deemed to be a glorious endeavor and romanticized, especially by those non-participants with little actual knowledge of events on "the front". While the American Civil War should have opened the eyes of potential combatants to the certainty of mass carnage presented by new technology coupled with classic military theory and technique, the European powers nevertheless stumbled blindly into the abyss.This is a VERY short novel, verging on novella. While it comes in at 295 pages, they are small pages with large type and wide spacing. It can easily be read in a single afternoon. As such, there is very little story development, apart from numerous vignettes involving Paul Baumer, a young German private, and his compatriots in the trenches. Again, the prose, while somewhat mild in current times, would have been shocking to the readers of the day. An example:Haie Westhus drags off with a great wound in his back through which thelung pulses at every breath.... We see men living with their skulls blown open;we see soldiers run with their two feet cut off, they stagger on theirsplintered stumps into the next shell hole; a lance corporal crawls a mile anda half on his hands dragging his smashed knee after him; another goes to thedressing station and over his clasped hands bulge his intestines; we see menwithout mouths, without jaws, without faces; we find one man who has held theartery of his arm in his teeth for two hours in order not to bleed to death.Such things just were not discussed in polite company. It's all here: the blood and guts; the horrifying injuries, amputations and pre-antiseptic gangrene; the rats; the putrefying and spoiled food which was eaten anyway by starving troops; the dysentery; the ignorance of the German people who cling to the ideal of glorious warfare. But through it all shines the humanity of Paul and his childhood friends, as they succumb one by one.After several succeeding wars, many of which became unpopular, and hundreds of books and movies which spotlight the actual conditions faced by front line troops, this novel has lost much of its originality and shock power. Though it must be said, it was the first and it remains powerful even to this day.
5.0 out of 5 stars still great, this many years later
a true masterpiece
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing to read
This book just gets better the more you read it. A true war story.
Great book
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Classic
This is a must have. The book, though translated, reads like a book written natively in English. The "adventures" (or better said as lack of adventure) shown depict an aspect of warfare we commonly overlook. The book displays the destruction of warfare, and changes your view of the world. This is a must havebif you want to learn to see the humanistic factors of any disaster. The book is also much better than the movie, and the plot is completely different. Seriously, why is the movie named after the book if the plots are different?
There would have been no wars
If only the Europeans all sides had read this book. I think things should have changed. There would have been no Second World War. There would have been no Holocaust, there would have been no Israel. The world would have been a more peaceful place. There would have been no Hiroshima
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2 stars for the quality of material.
The print quality and paper quality is really bad. It's a mass market paperback in it's true sense. It seems like pages would come loose even before I finish reading the book.This review is for the mass market paperback, sold by cloud tail and published by ballantine.
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