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Be sure to read the two books that immediately follow it Larry Send a noteboard - 26/04/2011 11:41:53 PM
Der Weg zurück and Drei Kameraden deepen some of the story (especially the first, which briefly references Paul's comrades), plus it explains even more why the Nazis banned the book and drove Remarque into exile.

I first read it at 18 and it moved me then toward becoming almost an anti-war person (not an activist; I'm not that absolute and have some realization of the terrible joke that is armed conflict). Most of his other books are good to very good, but not quite as devastating to read.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Remarque, Im Westen Nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) - 26/04/2011 06:16:11 PM 8123 Views
I read it when I was probably too young, too. - 26/04/2011 06:36:07 PM 1674 Views
The last chapters really seem rushed to me, even now. - 26/04/2011 06:43:23 PM 1564 Views
I want to read it now, so I think this was a good review. - 26/04/2011 08:03:30 PM 1688 Views
I find Steinbeck hard to digest. - 27/04/2011 05:05:45 AM 1551 Views
Travels with Charley is indeed great. - 27/04/2011 06:06:18 AM 1672 Views
He can also be inconsistent, but that makes him interesting to me. - 27/04/2011 06:47:25 AM 1810 Views
Whyever not? - 27/04/2011 07:13:56 PM 1649 Views
I was going to say that too - 27/04/2011 08:23:36 PM 1483 Views
Be sure to read the two books that immediately follow it - 26/04/2011 11:41:53 PM 1710 Views
The latter of the two is already on my "to read" list. - 27/04/2011 05:03:49 AM 1481 Views
Love that book - 27/04/2011 04:49:51 PM 1517 Views
Wait... - 27/04/2011 04:58:58 PM 1534 Views
Wow - 27/04/2011 10:17:55 PM 1667 Views
*NM* - 28/04/2011 09:18:26 PM 747 Views

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