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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
To be honest, I loved the first book more than the second. But nevertheless one can get so much knowledge about the history and will know how it felt to be an outsider from this book.
my review for this was deleted so like it was good but the first one was better.
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexism, War
adventurous
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
dark
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Xenophobia
Moderate: Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Islamophobia, War
Minor: Torture, Violence, Sexual harassment
I believe Marjane’s memoir is a great lesson on the price of freedom. I find it very enlightening how many similes exist between the dictatorship in Iran and the dictatorship in Cuba. How young couples used to marry, despite their best wishes, just to conform with the regime (same as in Democratic Germany). How personal liberties are suppressed to non existence. How people worry on a daily basis only on basic goods, such as food and soap, forgetting thus their social conscience and mistaking the absence of war as happiness. How the regime has a doctorate on twisting the truth and manipulating the media. How a millenarian culture as the Persian culture can be diminished to “terrorists and fundamentalists” because of who their rulers are, while their people live their truth in silence and fear. Just as heartbreaking as The Story of a Childhood.
That day I learned something essential: we can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable... Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.
not nearly as good as the first and I've lost interest for a bit.
I loved the first volume of Persepolis so much that I immediately picked up the second half to read. Unfortunately, a lot of what I loved most about the first half was much less powerful in this volume. Don't get me wrong, as this is still a great graphic novel that is worth picking up, as Satrapi's writing is as descriptive as ever.
While the writing is great and the images look nice on the page, the unique setting and story, covering a time period that most forms of media tend to ignore, is traded out for a relatively generic story about feeling out of place in a foreign environment. Perhaps most disappointing, however, was that this volume did not feel like the visual elements were nearly as important as they should be in a graphic novel format. Overall, this is a book I would recommend to fans of graphic novels, but if you only have time to read one volume of Persepolis, I would give this a pass in favor of the first volume.
While the writing is great and the images look nice on the page, the unique setting and story, covering a time period that most forms of media tend to ignore, is traded out for a relatively generic story about feeling out of place in a foreign environment. Perhaps most disappointing, however, was that this volume did not feel like the visual elements were nearly as important as they should be in a graphic novel format. Overall, this is a book I would recommend to fans of graphic novels, but if you only have time to read one volume of Persepolis, I would give this a pass in favor of the first volume.