Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

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

18 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

aroush's review

challenging emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Confinement, Racism, Suicide, Genocide, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Violence, and War

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

jbeoin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death of parent, Confinement, Death, Torture, Hate crime, Murder, Genocide, Physical abuse, War, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Chronic illness and Emotional abuse

Minor: Racism and Racial slurs

aisabel's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Genocide, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Violence, War, and Racism

bookchatwithbeth's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, War, Body horror, Death, Confinement, Gun violence, and Hate crime

e_scapes's review against another edition

4.25

Like all good Holocaust stories, this book was frightening and uncomfortable but at the same time hopeful. I liked how the narrative changed between the father’s account of his life during WWII and the son’s life. I think this added to the depth of the story, and I enjoyed being able to see how the events of WWII affected Vladek all throughout his life — from his frugality to his relationship with his neighbors. The scene where  

Art and Françoise give a ride to a black hitchhiker was especially poignent. Vladek was rude to the black man, and it was interesting to me how someone who was the victim of such a horrific case of discrimination was able to go on and discriminate against others.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Confinement, Antisemitism, and Genocide

Moderate: Death, Excrement, Grief, and Child death

chaos_animates's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, War, Slavery, Murder, Gore, Antisemitism, and Violence

Moderate: Torture

sadiaa's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, War, Antisemitism, Blood, Death, Deportation, Eating disorder, Genocide, Hate crime, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Suicide, Torture, Confinement, and Dementia

marinapetal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

sometimes you read a story that you’ll remember for the rest of your life. you’re overwhelmed with emotions and sit in silence not knowing what to do or say. i truly cannot fathom all the treacherous things that were told, but it’s important that we know and never forget that they happened. therefore this story must continue to live on and blow its future readers’ minds.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Confinement, Genocide, Death, Violence, Torture, Racism, and Racial slurs