Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Maus by Art Spiegelman

40 reviews

haseki_sultana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, Confinement, Antisemitism, Racial slurs, War, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, and Grief

velokei's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Something everyone should read
It was so beautiful and raised so many questions that are unable to be answered. It handled the holocaust in a striking way and was open and honest about the uncomfortability on profiting off of generational trauma 

Read for a second time for essay in January: I can’t recommend this book enough!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Deportation, Death of parent, Death, Child death, Murder, War, Violence, Antisemitism, Racism, Torture, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Gore, and Genocide

m4rtt4's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Wow. I'm speechless. I'd wanted to read this for so long, and it exceeded every expectation I had. Such a raw story. Very emotional and thought-provoking. I don't understand how and why this has been banned in some places – in no way could this book ever promote n*zism in a good way. Everyone should read this; massive content warnings for everything related to the Holocaust and WW2 though. Still, very important.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Slavery, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Child abuse, Suicide, Torture, Child death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, War, Excrement, and Genocide

friendofdorothea's review against another edition

emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, War, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Suicide, Antisemitism, and Murder

spooderman's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, War, Xenophobia, Death, Medical content, Murder, Racial slurs, Animal death, Slavery, Grief, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Violence, Antisemitism, Confinement, Death of parent, Deportation, Gun violence, Blood, Child death, Chronic illness, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, and Torture

Moderate: Medical trauma, Dementia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

irgendwieantonia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Confinement, Genocide, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Forced institutionalization, Child death, Torture, War, Deportation, Murder, Racism, Violence, and Police brutality

Minor: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, and Suicidal thoughts

mark70's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Slavery, Antisemitism, Genocide, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Grief, Self harm, Racism, Racial slurs, Suicide, and Death

pandemonicbaby's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Amazing book, a must-read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, War, Grief, Hate crime, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, and Torture

Minor: Excrement, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Dementia, and Gore

This is a book about the holocaust. Even though the drawings are cartoonish and nothing too explicit is drawn, it is still full of possibly triggering elements.

wanderonwards's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Gore, Confinement, Death of parent, Excrement, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gun violence, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and War

eve_ross_artist's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

4.0

These two books were amazing. You can really see that Art Spiegelman put hours upon hours of thought into portraying his father’s story and it just makes the story conveyed so much more powerful. Amazing books, definitely recommend (these are a bit graphic, especially in Maus II, so I wouldn’t recommend for younger people. These books were assigned to me for school in my third year of high school.) Very well written and drawn.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Slavery, Murder, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Antisemitism, Violence, Torture, and War

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Bullying