Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

8 reviews

spicypb's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Religious bigotry, Violence, Death, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Racism, Excrement, Murder, Gore, Suicide, Addiction, Antisemitism, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, War, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Torture, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Grief, Addiction, Alcoholism, Medical content, Animal death, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

gemstonejasper's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense

5.0

Everyone needs to read this and the first book. It's a raw and powerful story of a Jewish man who survived the Holocaust. Check the content warnings and take care of yourself, but it's a very important book.

An interesting quote from pg. 90 that I will be thinking about for months or even years to come:

Art: I'd rather kill myself than live through all that...

Francoise: What? Returning groceries?

Art: No. Everything Vladek went through. It's a miracle he survived.

Francoise: Uh-huh. But in some ways he didn't survive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Genocide, Hate crime, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Torture, Antisemitism, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, Gun violence, Death, Murder, Medical content, Slavery, Body horror, Medical trauma, Confinement, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and War

toris_stories1's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Antisemitism, Death, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Cursing

nikexistiertnik's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, War, Torture, Gun violence, Antisemitism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, and Grief

rtaire's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

 Support banned books! (This review is a copy-paste of my review for Vol 1)

I definitely recommend most everyone read this book (and the first volume). It's a beautifully nuanced memoir of a holocaust survivor and the complicated relationship between him and his son, the comic artist writing/drawing the book. Glad I read the book now when I am struggling with all the grey space of my own relationship between myself and my mother. Makes me feel more at ease about the lack of clear distinctions of "morally good" and "bad", the messy in-between of reality.

The art style really helped to put some distance between me and the extremely difficult subject matter of the Holocaust, which allowed me to keep reading when I might have otherwise needed to stop to preserve my mental health. Still, some of the images are truly haunting and it helps to be prepared to know that these books cover the worst of what humanity is capable of. I still think it is very worth it to remember these atrocities, especially at a time when people are trying to erase them and ban important books like this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, War, Alcohol, Mental illness, Murder, Xenophobia, Death, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Racism, and Sexism

onamoonbeam's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

that's a narrative!! that's a real story. god

an excellent continuation of the original. i really liked the chapter where you zoom out to see spiegelman sitting on top of a pile of mouse bodies and being questioned by interviewers. the rest of the chapters... seeing one man survive by his skills intelligence and luck and then cutting to how he dies is...sobering? somewhat inspiring? tragic? it definitely feels different to other holocaust narratives i've seen. stories must be told even if there is no just ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Hate crime, Medical content, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Antisemitism, Child death, and Genocide

Moderate: Racism

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Genocide, Murder, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, War, Dementia, Racism, Gun violence, Grief, and Medical content

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Animal death, and Excrement

rachelwierick's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

Would have been 5 stars but the ending felt a little rushed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Violence, and War