Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

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

4 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

toris_stories1's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

This graphic novel has impacted me so much. The feelings this story has evoked in me are astounding and I will think about this for years to come.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Antisemitism, Death, Murder, Racism, Forced institutionalization, and War

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Mental illness

Minor: Cursing and Alcohol

nia_readsalot's review

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Genocide, Hate crime, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Physical abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Child death, Death of parent, Violence, Confinement, Death, Gore, Domestic abuse, War, and Grief

rtaire's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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I definitely recommend most everyone read this book (and the second volume). It's a beautifully nuanced memoir of a holocaust survivor and the complicated relationship between him and his son, the comic artist writing/drawing the book. Glad I read the book now when I am struggling with all the grey space of my own relationship between myself and my mother. Makes me feel more at ease about the lack of clear distinctions of "morally good" and "bad", the messy in-between of reality.

The art style really helped to put some distance between me and the extremely difficult subject matter of the Holocaust, which allowed me to keep reading when I might have otherwise needed to stop to preserve my mental health. Still, some of the images are truly haunting and it helps to be prepared to know that these books cover the worst of what humanity is capable of. I still think it is very worth it to remember these atrocities, especially at a time when people are trying to erase them and ban important books like this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Alcohol, Genocide, War, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Gun violence, Death of parent, Violence, and Sexism