Reviews tagging 'War'

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

219 reviews

rcohen0828's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, War, Racism, and Xenophobia

christopher_shiprack's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Murder, Death, Torture, Genocide, Gun violence, Antisemitism, Animal death, Xenophobia, Suicide, Physical abuse, and War

samihami's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This is a piece of art (no pun intended) I will remeber for a long time, if not the rest of my life. 
Everyone should read this at least once in their life. The depth of the characters (though real people) and the dive into human relationships is authentic and endearing. I appreciate that the author strayed away from romantisising vistims of holocaust and decided to picture his father the way he is though it sometimes completes the Jewish stereotype or it puts him at bad light. 
The depiction of animals is perfect for the story and tells a great deal of history.
If you're hesitating, this is your sign to pick it up. You won't have regrets.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Antisemitism, War, Murder, and Violence

sienna1508's review

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

4.25

This book was incredibly eye-opening to the horrors of the Holocaust however I understand it can be extremely heavy and dark so I would definitely recommend caution!  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Antisemitism, Confinement, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Death, and Genocide

Moderate: War and Child death

gellyreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

Maus II is what I love and can handle in experimental books that I don’t appreciate in film.

Him talking to his therapist, showing his dad’s racism. His struggle with what to write and including the real life images and call-outs of what to draw his converted wife as.

This all adds a depth that makes this story even more human, terrible, and powerful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Genocide, Antisemitism, Racism, Violence, and War

kemrick19's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Xenophobia, Grief, Child death, Confinement, Genocide, War, Violence, Racism, Self harm, Hate crime, Mental illness, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Suicide, and Death of parent

migimasa's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Death of parent, War, Violence, Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, Hate crime, Death, and Antisemitism

linneak's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Kidnapping, Death, Deportation, Police brutality, Confinement, Hate crime, Torture, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Dementia, War, Murder, Suicide, Gore, Antisemitism, Child death, Physical abuse, Violence, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Blood, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Alcohol, and Toxic friendship

mbates185's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Genocide, Violence, and Suicide

ellisgoldstein's review

As a Jewish reader, holocaust stories tend to be a little too raw for me. I would like to finish this eventually but right now it is just too emotional 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Murder, Genocide, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Antisemitism, War, Violence, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, and Racial slurs