Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Maus by Art Spiegelman

65 reviews

tollbooth's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cursing, Antisemitism, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Genocide, Gun violence, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Suicide, War, Violence, and Child death

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Suicide, Death of parent, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, War, Xenophobia, Violence, Antisemitism, Child death, Confinement, Medical content, Self harm, and Torture

Moderate: Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Blood, Classism, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Dementia and Car accident

ladyzbyrd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This was a well-written graphic creative nonfiction memoir and a reasonably quick read. The material comes straight from a very dark history of the Holocaust. 

While the history is heartbreaking and the material is incredibly dark, this was a book I enjoyed. It’s quite the oxymoron, but I can’t explain it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Excrement, Antisemitism, Hate crime, Grief, Genocide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Mental illness, Death, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

katharina_s's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Violence, Torture, Death, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, War, and Religious bigotry

metawidget's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Gun violence, Antisemitism, Racism, Murder, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Torture, and War

lily1304's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Suicide, Violence, Gun violence, and Antisemitism

sonaea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Physical abuse, Confinement, War, Antisemitism, Genocide, Death, Deportation, Violence, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Racism and Mental illness

Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Suicide, Self harm, Gun violence, and Sexism

mtnest's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Gun violence, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Grief, War, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Antisemitism, Confinement, and Death

carissa230's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

Art Spiegelman is interviewing his father for a comic. Vladek was a survivor of the holocaust and Art was a child born after the holocaust.

 Throughout the book it is clear that time is passing in the current day as Art tries to get the full story from his father. We see the disintegration of Vladek's health as Art works to get the story on paper. Art comes across as very pushy and insensitive. I think that can be attributed to his age and the fact that he's trying to deal with his parent. We can all be a little pushy and insensitive about our parents. 

In the past storyline we see Vladek get married and become successful. Only to lose everything when the Nazi's invade Poland. He was clearly a survivor. Trading physical objects, trading skills, and getting assigned tasks that would better his standing. 

As with all holocaust stories this is sad and there are descriptions of acts that it is still unbelievable that it happened. I think that putting the characters as animals dehumanized the characters. If only it had been that easy to spot the people you needed to avoid. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Death of parent, Genocide, War, and Gun violence

Moderate: Racism

alana_gf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Violence, Death, Torture, and War