Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

112 reviews

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

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

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

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

mrs_angry_eyes's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Torture, Child death, Genocide, Grief, Mental illness, Antisemitism, Suicide, and Violence

pandorasirens's review

dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Violence, Torture, Death, Genocide, and War

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicide, Racism, and Confinement

nornors's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Gun violence, Racism, Grief, Antisemitism, War, Xenophobia, Torture, Murder, Violence, Physical abuse, Genocide, Suicide, and Racial slurs

teddie_valetine98's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

I don’t star rate these types of books but this book was such an important read to me.
I think people need to read this at least once!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, War, Murder, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Genocide, Violence, Racism, Police brutality, Torture, Slavery, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Suicide

scarse48's review

emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, War, and Genocide

Moderate: Torture, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

This is an interview done by a Holocaust survivor's son in the form of a graphic novel. There is a ton of deliberate choice in the symbolism throughout the pages. This is the sort of story best read in groups because you will miss symbolism others will pick up on and vice versa. This, like all survivor stories, is bleak and tragic and focused on survival. This has additional slight framing through the relationship difficulties Spiegelman's father had with everyone after experiencing such cruel events, some of which feel so much lighter than the other material that they come across as comedic relief even though they aren't actually funny.
There are a lot of applicable content warnings within this story but I urge all of those who can possibly find themselves strong enough to read this book to read this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Confinement, Gun violence, Antisemitism, and Death

Moderate: Violence, Hate crime, Suicide, Murder, and Torture

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

There is a moment within the last half of the book where someone being shot to death is related to that of a dog that had been shot to death.