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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque</h1> |
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2014-12-24 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/erich-maria-remarque/">#erich maria remarque</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/reviews/">#reviews</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/fiction/">#fiction</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-5/">#stars:5</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-1929/">#published:1929</a> |
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/355697.All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front">GoodReads Summary</a>: |
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In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are |
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goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war’. With the fire |
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and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a |
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young ‘unknown soldier’ experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in |
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the trenches.</p> |
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★★★★★ |
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<p>I was sure that in the forewords there was something about "this is not a book |
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to promote war" or anything of the sorts. But alas, the forewords are</p> |
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<p>This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all |
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an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face |
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with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though |
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they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.</p> |
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<p>... which basically describes the whole book.</p> |
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<p>The book follows the story of a young German soldier from the beginning of |
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World War I till almost its end. In following him, we learn how training was, |
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how going to the battle front was like, how friendships were forged, how |
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soldiers survived with the small support from the higher ups, how the rest of |
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the society view and treated those who were in the front and how society lived |
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while the war was raging.</p> |
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<p>Again, my surprise was the "promote war" foreword that I thought existed. |
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'Cause the book goes far away from it. From it's gory description of the |
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battles, from it's depressing tales of how the society lived, from the sad |
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state most were left when the tides of war changed against those fighting, to |
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the complete desolation of describing how it is to lose someone who fought and |
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helped others in the front, this is far from being a "promotion" of war; if |
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such, it's more of a long story about how governments would engage war without |
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worrying with the poor souls (real people!) who actually got guns in their |
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guns and run against other poor souls that also didn't appear as a single |
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bleep in their government plans.</p> |
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<p>It's a brutal, sad description of what war really yes.</p> |
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