Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Maus: Racconto di un sopravvissuto. I, Mio padre sanguina storia by Art Spiegelman

45 reviews

ktdakotareads's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Moderate: Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, and Suicide

rtaire's review against another edition

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

rsngphoenix's review against another edition

dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

alisiakae's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Antisemitism, and Murder

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

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

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

bekkabergamot's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book is heartbreaking and it is also essential.  Sadly, Holocaust misinformation and denial is at an all time high, so is antisemitism.  Reading books by survivors and the children of them is crucial in understanding the true horrors that were inflicted upon the Jewish and other communities.  Approximately 6 million Jewish people and 5 million prisoners of war were murdered by the Nazis.  According to the World Population Review, there were 14.7 million Jewish people reported globally in 2021.  While that number is subjective, it does adequately display that the Holocaust eliminated almost half of the population of surviving Jews, or slightly under 1/3 of the Jewish population at the time.  

<i>Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)</i> goes between the complicated relationship that Art Spiegelman had with his father as he interviews his father for his book and then goes back in time to depict his father's story of anguish and survival.  If you haven't read this yet, add it to your TBR! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Violence, Antisemitism, and Murder

Minor: Suicide and Death of parent

plxtoprojector's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Suicide, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Death, Racism, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and War