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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 7929 Views
I read it when I was probably too young, too. - 26/04/2011 06:36:07 PM 1535 Views
The last chapters really seem rushed to me, even now. - 26/04/2011 06:43:23 PM 1441 Views
I want to read it now, so I think this was a good review. - 26/04/2011 08:03:30 PM 1580 Views
I find Steinbeck hard to digest. - 27/04/2011 05:05:45 AM 1439 Views
Travels with Charley is indeed great. - 27/04/2011 06:06:18 AM 1575 Views
He can also be inconsistent, but that makes him interesting to me. - 27/04/2011 06:47:25 AM 1685 Views
Whyever not? - 27/04/2011 07:13:56 PM 1540 Views
I was going to say that too - 27/04/2011 08:23:36 PM 1343 Views
Be sure to read the two books that immediately follow it - 26/04/2011 11:41:53 PM 1607 Views
The latter of the two is already on my "to read" list. - 27/04/2011 05:03:49 AM 1387 Views
Love that book - 27/04/2011 04:49:51 PM 1416 Views
Wait... - 27/04/2011 04:58:58 PM 1421 Views
Wow - 27/04/2011 10:17:55 PM 1566 Views
*NM* - 28/04/2011 09:18:26 PM 695 Views

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