Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

23 reviews

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

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Antisemitism, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Death, Kidnapping, and Confinement

Moderate: Suicide, Blood, and Racism

Minor: Sexual violence

chambre1055's review

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

How come for social animals, we can only recognise social evils when it hits us but never when it hurts others?
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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Violence, Suicide, War, Genocide, Mass/school shootings, Slavery, Torture, Body horror, Death of parent, Excrement, Suicide attempt, Antisemitism, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

teh_niarr's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Hate crime, Murder, Child death, Antisemitism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, War, Violence, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Genocide, Mass/school shootings, Death, and Grief

beaingleby's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, War, Physical abuse, Genocide, Murder, Hate crime, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Deportation, Confinement, Child death, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicide

ninahuynh's review

challenging dark medium-paced

3.5

Overall, interesting biography. I thought it was unique to use mice as the character avatar, and using other animals to depict the different nationalities. The story itself was slow to medium-paced, I would say, with pages filled with words. I understand that the author may have tried to depict the familial interactions as true to life as possible, but boy do I get annoyed by how Art treats his dad.

Also, the font of the text makes it difficult to discern some words throughout the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Hate crime, Death of parent, Suicide, Body horror, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, War, Antisemitism, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Genocide, and Gun violence

kaimetcalfe's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Death, Suicide, Violence, War, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

queerloras's review

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Child death, Death of parent, Deportation, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Police brutality, Racism, Religious bigotry, Torture, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, War, Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

jhbandcats's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Devastating. I can’t begin to imagine how truly horrific the Holocaust was. It must have been so hard for Art Spiegelman to listen to his father tell of his experiences from the mid-1930s to the end of the war. Spiegelman is masterful in turning his father’s words into a visual document of the devastation.

Maus I deals more with the lead-up to the incarceration, torture, and death of the Jews in Polish ghettos and concentration camps. Maus II is more about enduring the camps and finally being saved, and Spiegelman’s fraught relationship with his emotionally damaged father. Everyone in both his mom and his dad’s family was killed, literally dozens were murdered - well, one of his dad’s brothers survived - and his mother, overcome by it all, committed suicide when Spiegelman was twenty. This, of course, further damaged his father, already a man in deep psychological and emotional pain. 

Astoundingly good and beyond horrible at the same time. Everyone should read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Antisemitism, Suicide, Violence, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, and War

salemwasinyouryard's review

dark hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I have a newfound appreciation for activists everywhere. I learned so much about the atrocities of the holocaust that I’ve never read anywhere else, and it makes me want to work harder to ensure nothing like this ever happens again.

There were many moments where I felt like I should’ve been crying, but I didn’t. Not because I didn’t feel the pain, but because I had to acknowledge that it was real and it happened to somebody. This wasn’t some made up, horrible scenario that we never have to worry about—it was real life. I think everyone should try to read to read this at some point in their life, wherever they’re at, because it will leave an impact on you, whether you want it to or not.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Genocide, Hate crime, Slavery, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Death, Cursing, Murder, Police brutality, War, and Torture