Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

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

3 reviews

suchacommotion's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Police brutality, War, Murder, Suicide, Antisemitism, Violence, and Genocide

Moderate: Death of parent, Body horror, and Death

Minor: Mental illness

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

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.5

even though the book's subject has been done countless times, maus somehow feels even more harrowing than most because of its characters' depiction as mice, cats, and pigs..like a graphic novel version of orwell's 1984. It was surreal seeing the spiegelmans disappear to the nazi's atrocities one by one. also appreciate the author's realistic and humanistic portrayal of his father.

despite being about an event that has been told in various forms countless times, this book still manages to be shocking, jarring, and evocative through the personal tale that illustrates people as complex beings and very impactful drawings. drawing the characters as animals is such a simple method, but it's surprisingly effective. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Body horror, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Violence, Confinement, Death, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Child death, Death of parent, and Grief