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Its my 3rd attempt to get past page 10. I failed with the movie, too. Richard Thomas was too much for me. Thomas is the male Mimi Bobeck.
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To read ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Erich Maria Remarque.
Its my 3rd attempt to get past page 10. I failed with the movie, too. Richard Thomas was too much for me. Thomas is the male Mimi Bobeck.
I think it succeeded in its aim of presenting war as a horrible and futile endeavour...
I had to read it in school. I think it succeeded in its aim of presenting war as a horrible and futile endeavour, but there's only so much "horrible and futile" I can take, however well-written.
I know it should focus on all the good stuff about the Germans and World Wars. Yea war, let's have more! Especially Germany!
Shame on him for not focusing on the good stuff. I am currently rereading this book, oddly enough, and I find it as rich and fascinating as I did the first time.
I know it should focus on all the good stuff about the Germans and World Wars. Yea war, let's have more! Especially Germany!
Shame on him for not focusing on the good stuff. I am currently rereading this book, oddly enough, and I find it as rich and fascinating as I did the first time.
Well, technically I guess it's not too surprising that a man who's no warrior doesn't have fun taking part in a war. A person who's not interested in chess will have a horrible time at a chess-tournament and a gay dude would not be able to properly enjoy a stay at the Playboy Mansion.
I don't know much about WW1, but as far as the justification for WW2 goes, both sides had good reasons for going to war and a lot of good came out of it...
I'm not saying it should have portrayed war as a positive. But it's possible to write about war as a wasteful tragedy without being unremittingly bleak, and it can actually be more persuasive that way. IMHO it's easier to connect to characters, and feel anger when their lives are wasted, if you've seen that they're capable of something other than gloom and mud.
For example, I think Anne Frank's diary was a much more powerful book because it captured the joy of life as well as the horror.
(Perhaps I'm being too harsh on "All Quiet"; it's been a long time since I read it, so I can't say for sure, but I remember it as pretty much wall-to-wall gloom.)