Reviews tagging 'Death'

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

94 reviews

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Ableism, Mental illness, Suicide, Death of parent, and Classism

Minor: Cancer and Excrement

antmahn's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, and War

shanban0303's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

This was a really great book, and while there were definitely great things about it throughout, it wasn’t until the end that a lot of the symbolism and underlying messages hit me. A really great book, and I’m really looking forward to the sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism

Minor: Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

carolyn84's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, Antisemitism, Grief, and War

gersandelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and War

thyroyalreader's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Mental illness, and Suicide

Eye opening and a descriptive read. I read before getting into my classes unit on WW2, so expanded upon the more personal experience side of what happened during the Holocaust.

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

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

mandaleigh's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Xenophobia

oldandnewbooksmell's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Trigger Warnings: Holocuast, antisemitism, genocide, war, PTSD, depression, suicide, starvation, death by hanging

Maus I is a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman showing both his strain relationship with his father and his father’s retelling of living through the Holocaust. 

As I’m sure a lot of others have done, once this title made news about being banned in Tennessee, I immediately got my hands on a copy to see what in the world it was for. This needs to be required reading, not banned reading.

This graphic novel was powerful and heart wrenching. This is such an important book that shows a part of history in graphic novel format - something that is easier for some people to read and understand. Spiegelman depicted Jews as wide-eyed rats and Nazis as cats - that already is a huge symbolism.

Spiegelman didn’t sugarcoat his father’s journey. People of all ages went through the Holocaust and went through hell. We shouldn’t “hide” history, otherwise it repeats itself.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Suicide

selfsoulfriend's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Racism, Violence, Antisemitism, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide