Reviews tagging 'Blood'

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

6 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

gemstonejasper's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense

5.0

Everyone needs to read this and the sequel. It's a raw and powerful story of a Jewish man who survived the Holocaust. Check the content warnings and take care of yourself, but it's a very important book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Suicide, Grief, Genocide, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Torture, Antisemitism, Medical trauma, Murder, Racism, Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Hate crime, Slavery, and Child death

ronan900's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Confinement, Deportation, Death of parent, War, Antisemitism, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, and Genocide

Moderate: Grief, Abandonment, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Blood, Child death, and Cancer

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

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

rachelwierick's review

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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