This was interesting in that it's a war book that hates war. It was extremely descriptive but even from a first person perspective, it felt too descriptive, like no one is that observant, as if Paul was removed from himself from the beginning. Every sentence has a heaviness to it, there's very little in the way of superfluous meaning, even though Paul is superficial, which I think highlights the fact that he is neither man nor child at this time, he's just a soldier caught in  between. It's a very straightforward read, there's no poetic meaning nor romanticization of war and I can understand why it's been banned and burned