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

15 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

ayoung720's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Antisemitism, Xenophobia, Deportation, Physical abuse, Death, War, and Genocide

Minor: Cannibalism

kwurtzel3's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Genocide, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Violence and Child death

thunderdone's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Antisemitism, Violence, War, Physical abuse, and Death

This book is a graphic memoir about Art Spiegelman's father's experience through the holocaust.

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

untoworthy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, War, and Antisemitism

courtneyivaska's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Maus 1-2 should absolutely be required reading for everyone.  This biographical story of how Spiegelman's parents survived the atrocities of WWII and the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau and sheds lights on the depravity of man and the horrifying choices that people are forced to make during war.  Readers may need to pace themselves (I had to take breaks) but should know that it is worth reading.  In addition to telling the survival story of his father, the book also grapples with the aftermath of war and what happens to people after they have experienced such trauma.  He does not paint his father in a perfect light, instead gives an honest portrayal of someone whose experience is reflected in his treatment of others after the war (i.e. some domestic neglect, racist attitudes toward others, hoarding).   

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Gore, Torture, Suicide, Excrement, War, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Gun violence, Hate crime, Genocide, Gaslighting, and Racism