A Pilgrimage to Cinema

After watching both the 1930 and 2022 "All Quiet on the Western Front", but most especially the latter, I resolved to read the source material itself: Erich Maria Remarque's landmark 1929 novel. The copy that I got was a relatively easy read, just 280-pages long. This book I had to squeeze in among all the books that I am currently reading: works by Plato, Kafka, the Brothers Grimm and Freud (and there are some more that I am planning to start sooner or later). Well, I got to finish Remarque's novel in just four consecutive days (the book was made up of a brief prologue and 12 chapters). From my own perspective, that was Remarque-able indeed!  But what prompted me to read the novel? (I can hardly recall if I had already read "AQOTWF" sometime before;in any case, it was not a bad idea at all to read the book a second time.) The idea behind it was pretty simple: I just felt that there was something "wrong" with the 2022 German film, directed by Edwar...