Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

43 reviews

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

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

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

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

demetrius_bennett's review

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, War, Death, Hate crime, Violence, Racism, Antisemitism, and Confinement

Moderate: Excrement, Torture, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Classism, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child death, Animal death, Body horror, Death of parent, and Cursing

Minor: Medical content, Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Alcohol, and Car accident

dspickes's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Antisemitism, Torture, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Deportation and Grief

Minor: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and War

anfripa's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racial slurs, Deportation, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Police brutality, Blood, Antisemitism, Cancer, Grief, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

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

piperca's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

3.5

I found myself having a difficult time with the father son relationship. Both Flawed and traumatized people for obvious reasons. Found myself wishing that the focus was more heavily focused on the fathers retelling of events rather than the fallout from a damaged person raising a child. I supposed illuminating the generational effects of trauma is important, but had a hard time resonating with or feeling much empathy for the son. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Death, Racism, Child death, Classism, Genocide, Slavery, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Confinement, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Violence, War, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Self harm, Xenophobia, Excrement, Gore, Grief, and Gun violence