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.