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Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (1993, Random House Publishing Group) 4 stars

This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German …

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5 stars

Good lordt. What a book. I’m some ways it’s hard to believe this is 95 years old. In other ways it’s easy to believe. Nothing had changed. Humans are humans. War is horrible. Aside from the setting or technology this book could’ve been written about prehistoric tribal warfare or the seemingly inevitable WWIII.

Not sure why I haven’t heard more about this other than “there’s a movie adaptation”. This should be required reading in school.