Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Maus: A Survivor's Tale. My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

10 reviews

spicypb's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Racial slurs, Torture, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, War, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Violence, Death, Antisemitism, Physical abuse, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Grief, Confinement, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Medical content, Blood, Child death, and Classism

amelody's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Violence, Xenophobia, War, Racial slurs, Racism, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Deportation, Death of parent, Suicide, Child death, Classism, Cursing, Death, Police brutality, Mental illness, and Grief

angelfireeast24's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Classism, War, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Hate crime, Grief, Gun violence, Deportation, Death of parent, Death, Violence, Cursing, Confinement, Child death, Bullying, Antisemitism, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, and Abandonment

wispy_reviews's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Racism, Racial slurs, and Religious bigotry

robi_locksley's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Violence, Religious bigotry, Racism, Suicide, and Racial slurs

cstein's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

Spiegelman's decision to draw rather than merely write this memoir importantly limits the reader's imagination, leaving drastically less room for confusion, wrong interpretation, or willful ignorance of the facts of his and his father's experiences. In a similarly ingenious way, Spiegelman's cartoon animal characters provide sufficient whimsy and distance from the horrors of the Holocaust to make the work readable, while also prompting frequent pauses to reflect on how the emotions and horrors experienced by these cartoon animals are actually those experienced by very much non-cartoon people. Phew.

As the Newsweek review of this work reads, in part, "Maus compels us to bear witness in a different way: the very artificiality of its surface makes it possible to imagine the reality beneath." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Antisemitism, Death, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicide, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Chronic illness, Deportation, Genocide, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, War, Vomit, and Excrement

srm's review

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Suicide, and Genocide

Moderate: Child death, Death, Racial slurs, War, Death of parent, and Religious bigotry

rsngphoenix's review

dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Antisemitism, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Hate crime, Cursing, Death, Self harm, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Suicide, Violence, and War

alisiakae's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Suicide, Violence, War, Genocide, Xenophobia, Murder, and Racial slurs

frankie_reads2's review

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Antisemitism, Child death, Death, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Torture