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This is really a case of me not being in the right mood for this book more than of the book not being great. It's a well written, extremely honest and powerful account of the German experience on the front line during WWI. But I just never connected with the novel, despite all of its merits.
Which makes this a very difficult review to write. Objectively, I can absolutely see why this is a classic. The matter-of-fact, almost detached narrative, interspersed with occasional pages of pure fear or h ...more
Which makes this a very difficult review to write. Objectively, I can absolutely see why this is a classic. The matter-of-fact, almost detached narrative, interspersed with occasional pages of pure fear or h ...more
five because of pathos, not divorceable from its pathos, it's not a great novel but a great book of suffering in war
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Nov 21, 2010
Jane from B.C.
marked it as to-read
Mar 02, 2011
Nadane
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Apr 14, 2011
Rosemary
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it was amazing
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Susan
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