Literary Guise: A Book Club for Modern Men
A book club where we (those who identify as men and those who want to understand men better) review great works of literature and discuss what they have to say about masculine archetypes. We are two life-long friends, one straight, one gay; a writer, and a doctor of computer science and philosophy, who have vastly different ideas of what it means to be a man. We’re here to take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly and to grow along the way.
Literary Guise: A Book Club for Modern Men
"All Quiet on the Western Front," by Erich Maria Remarque (Episode 20.3) Part 3/3
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Men's Book Club
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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We finish up our Listeners' Choice for 2022, "All Quiet on the Western Front," on a bright note as things are looking up for our German boys in the trenches... just kidding, this novel just gets unrelentingly bleak right up until the soul-voiding ending (probably one of the most memorable closing lines in literary history). Although it does say something about the nature of humanity that we have to nearly destroy ourselves before we can begin to understand the nuance of our condition. Ugh, even that thought depressed us. Friends, we need some more cheery fare to read! What's our final book of the year? Cormac McCarthy? ...crap.
