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sedgemonkey
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Topic: Need help finding a book...
Posted: 06 June 2005 at 9:50am

I read a book in 7th or 8th grade that takes place during either WWI or WWII and I really would like to check it out again. I read it as part of my assigned reading in school so I figured some of you youngsters might have read it recently...

My memory of the book is really scattered mostly because I read dozens of war books, but I remember one part where the protaganist is stuck in a trench with the enemy and he sees that he is very much like him. I know that's not much to go on, but I really can't remember anything else specific.

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Garage Inc.
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Posted: 06 June 2005 at 10:07am

This is probobly a dumb question, actually, I have 3 dumb questions.

1. Do you still live in the place where you grew up? (7th or 8th grade)

2. Do you remember the name of your teacher or if he/she is still alive?

3. Where you in honors or regulars? (Hell, I don't know if they seperated it back when you where in school (not that i'm calling you old,))

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Posted: 06 June 2005 at 10:15am

I never read books, but since you said there was a trench, there is a big possibility that is was in WWI. WWII is more the war of moving fronts, so there wasn't really place for trenches.

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sedgemonkey
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Posted: 06 June 2005 at 10:47am

Garage:

1) Naw and I wouldn't go to my old Junior High if I did. I'm much too lazy for that kind of effort.
2) Are my teachers alive? How the hell old do you think I am?
3) Honors classes have been around for decades, but a lot of schools don't have that for Junior High (mine didn't).

Brian the Great: That's true. I'm not so sure it was a trench... could've been a bunker, foxhole or something else.

Edit: Oops, I replied to the wrong person.

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Psychotic_Carp
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Posted: 06 June 2005 at 1:27pm

i only remember reading alas babylon

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pixelblink
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Posted: 06 June 2005 at 2:18pm

I think the only book I read that was remotely related to war was Slaughterhouse 5

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Posted: 08 June 2005 at 8:39pm

Oh it has to be All Quiet on the Western Front. I read that last year in 10th grade, and there's a scene just like you described.I love that book.

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sedgemonkey
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Posted: 09 June 2005 at 8:04am

Originally posted by Blue Lander

Oh it has to be All Quiet on the Western Front. I read that last year in 10th grade, and there's a scene just like you described.I love that book.

Ah yes. Thank you very much! I'll have to pick that up.

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sedgemonkey Admiral Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1669	Topic: Need help finding a book... Posted: 06 June 2005 at 9:50am
	I read a book in 7th or 8th grade that takes place during either WWI or WWII and I really would like to check it out again. I read it as part of my assigned reading in school so I figured some of you youngsters might have read it recently... My memory of the book is really scattered mostly because I read dozens of war books, but I remember one part where the protaganist is stuck in a trench with the enemy and he sees that he is very much like him. I know that's not much to go on, but I really can't remember anything else specific.
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Garage Inc. Commander Joined: 20 October 2021 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 318	Posted: 06 June 2005 at 10:07am
	This is probobly a dumb question, actually, I have 3 dumb questions. 1. Do you still live in the place where you grew up? (7th or 8th grade) 2. Do you remember the name of your teacher or if he/she is still alive? 3. Where you in honors or regulars? (Hell, I don't know if they seperated it back when you where in school (not that i'm calling you old,))
	For every second spent wondering if you can do something, you could spend 2 seconds doing it.
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Brian the Great Commander RED! Joined: 03 March 2005 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2221	Posted: 06 June 2005 at 10:15am
	I never read books, but since you said there was a trench, there is a big possibility that is was in WWI. WWII is more the war of moving fronts, so there wasn't really place for trenches.
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sedgemonkey Admiral Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1669	Posted: 06 June 2005 at 10:47am
	Garage: 1) Naw and I wouldn't go to my old Junior High if I did. I'm much too lazy for that kind of effort. 2) Are my teachers alive? How the hell old do you think I am? 3) Honors classes have been around for decades, but a lot of schools don't have that for Junior High (mine didn't). Brian the Great: That's true. I'm not so sure it was a trench... could've been a bunker, foxhole or something else. Edit: Oops, I replied to the wrong person. Edited by sedgemonkey
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Psychotic_Carp Commander Joined: 02 April 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1008	Posted: 06 June 2005 at 1:27pm
	i only remember reading alas babylon
	got game?
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pixelblink Commander Joined: 19 February 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2865	Posted: 06 June 2005 at 2:18pm
	I think the only book I read that was remotely related to war was Slaughterhouse 5 Edited by pixelblink
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Blue Lander Midshipman Joined: 29 March 2015 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 41	Posted: 08 June 2005 at 8:39pm
	Oh it has to be All Quiet on the Western Front. I read that last year in 10th grade, and there's a scene just like you described.I love that book.
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sedgemonkey Admiral Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1669	Posted: 09 June 2005 at 8:04am
	*Originally posted by Blue Lander* Oh it has to be All Quiet on the Western Front. I read that last year in 10th grade, and there's a scene just like you described.I love that book. Ah yes. Thank you very much! I'll have to pick that up.
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