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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
Stunning, stomach-churning prose. War as the ultimate dissociator: extracting the mind from the body--"it has transformed us into unthinking animals in order to give us the weapon of instinct"--until the two are dumbly sewn back together, Frankenstein'd and loose. A new favorite.
Sjukt bra. Som ett tidsdokument från Första världskriget, ett krig som är överskuggat av Andra världskrigets grymheter men som var mer primitivt. I övrigt ska man nog inte jämföra krigen. Mycket intressant också att den berättas ur en ung tysk soldats perspektiv.
Boken läste jag ett år efter att ha tagit studenten och den fullkomligt slog mig i huvudet. Lättläst, brutal och värmande allmänmänsklig. Vänta inte med att läsa den. Gör det nu.
Boken läste jag ett år efter att ha tagit studenten och den fullkomligt slog mig i huvudet. Lättläst, brutal och värmande allmänmänsklig. Vänta inte med att läsa den. Gör det nu.
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Nachdem ich den Film gesehen habe musste ich auch das Buch lesen und jetzt weiß ich nicht, was ich dazu sagen soll.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol
Minor: Racism, Sexism, Sexual content
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I sort of went with the film adaptation before the book, and, in a rare admission, think I liked the film more. The book is fantastic. Dialogue is at a minimum but Remarque’s ability to make the pages come alive with description is great. The film succeeds in conveying the emotion that I felt the pages lacked. And I think that’s BECAUSE I saw the movie first. I could visualize the movie scenes and I think that was hindering my reading experience. Overall, the book is great and the movie is a strong complement to the text.
A war classic and highly compelling tale of individual struggle.
challenging
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
“I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness;—I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life, we are nearer than lovers, in a simpler, a harder way; I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me” (212).
writing style was haunting while being easy to understand at the same time. never felt so immersed when reading a war novel, and the exploration of the relationships between the young class of soldiers was especially interesting. last paragraph of the novel made me sit and stare at a wall for 10 minutes
writing style was haunting while being easy to understand at the same time. never felt so immersed when reading a war novel, and the exploration of the relationships between the young class of soldiers was especially interesting. last paragraph of the novel made me sit and stare at a wall for 10 minutes
“One thing I do know: everything that is sinking into us like a stone now, while we are in the war, will rise up again when the war is over, and that’s when the real life-and-death struggle will start.
The days, the weeks, the years spent out here will come back to us again, and our dead comrades in arms will rise again and march with us, our heads will be clear and we will have an aim in life, and with our dead comrades beside us and the years we have spent in the line behind us we shall march forward - but against whom, against whom?”
It’s pretty frightening to think that Erich Maria Remarque wrote those words in the mid-1920s not knowing what was lying ahead for Germany.
The best anti-war novel I’ve ever come across and a million times more nuanced than the recent film adaptation.
The days, the weeks, the years spent out here will come back to us again, and our dead comrades in arms will rise again and march with us, our heads will be clear and we will have an aim in life, and with our dead comrades beside us and the years we have spent in the line behind us we shall march forward - but against whom, against whom?”
It’s pretty frightening to think that Erich Maria Remarque wrote those words in the mid-1920s not knowing what was lying ahead for Germany.
The best anti-war novel I’ve ever come across and a million times more nuanced than the recent film adaptation.