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All Quiet on the Western Front - given away!

13/3/2011

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Well, I've had a great time giving away copies of All Quiet on the Western Front on World Book Night and thereafter! Like being the Book Fairy... thanks to the generosity of those who sponsored the giveaway, of course. Our small Book Club is going to discuss it at our May meeting, and we'll be inviting neighbours to join us who took a copy. Should be a good opportunity to look at how a former soldier who took part, as a young German man, in that terrible conflict, ordered an account in a literary form to try and convey what it was like.  I gave copies not only to neighbours, but also to young people serving in shops, delivery drivers, a dustbinman on his round, postmen, the security guard at Sainsbury's, a headmistress of a local primary school we bumped into while shopping, the young man serving coffee at the Odeon cinema, the man in the Turkish kebab shop, an elderly man on his way home with shopping trolley, a Slovakian gardener weeding beds, schoolboys etc.
I hope that some of these people might be turned on to reading, who perhaps were not before.
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Mart
5/10/2011 05:36:30 am

I was one of the recipients of your giveaway copies of "All Quiet ..."
In my little notebook, where I record my opinion of books read , I wrote: "What a masterpiece. Utterly absorbing, very disturbing, an unremitting condemnation of the insanity of war. It could be contemporary, the language is so fresh. One of the greatest books ever written!"

I passed the book on to my homoeopathic practitioner.

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