All Quiet on the Western Front -- Erich Maria Remarque

from baswood

[All Quiet on the Western Fron by Erich Maria Remarque I am young, I am twenty years of age; but I know nothing of life except despair, death, fear, and the combination of completely mindless superficiality with an abyss of suffering. I see people being driven against one another, and silently, u...

from jonbrammer

As a war novel, All Quiet represents a step forward from Crane's Red Badge of Courage, in that the brutality and horror of war accelerated with the rise of the industrial age. Paul Baumer is the victim of the machine that presses him to war, that steals his youth, and that kills his comrades. Wha...

from steve02476

How did I get to be almost 60 before reading this book? So powerful and beautifully written and translated. Thank you to my book club for having this on the reading list.

from EBT1002

"I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. I see that the keenest ...

from rainpebble

(SPOILER) "He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have ...