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A review by jaimie_lynn
Maus: A Survivor's Tale. My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
2.0
Updated 5/22/20
So clearly I'm in the minority with this rating.
I read a lot of WWII books. I went to Poland in 2017 and walked the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps. My heart shattered but it also gave me a weird hunger to learn and read everything I could about that war. When I came home, a friend suggested I read this graphic novel. I bought it immediately and it has been sitting around my house since. I FINALLY decided to read it yesterday.
Obviously, it's a heartbreaking story, but I felt no connection with it whatsoever. I also found I was finishing it just to finish it -- not because I found it compelling.
I think my problem with it and that disconnect is because it's in graphic novel form and animals. I get the animals are a metaphor -- at least, I assume it is. Cats chasing mice type of thing. I should also state this was my very first serious graphic novel.
I was never into graphic novels/comics until recently and I find I'm very particular about them. That could be part of my problem as well.
I really just don't have a lot to say about it and nothing really good to say, for that matter.
So clearly I'm in the minority with this rating.
I read a lot of WWII books. I went to Poland in 2017 and walked the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps. My heart shattered but it also gave me a weird hunger to learn and read everything I could about that war. When I came home, a friend suggested I read this graphic novel. I bought it immediately and it has been sitting around my house since. I FINALLY decided to read it yesterday.
Obviously, it's a heartbreaking story, but I felt no connection with it whatsoever. I also found I was finishing it just to finish it -- not because I found it compelling.
I think my problem with it and that disconnect is because it's in graphic novel form and animals. I get the animals are a metaphor -- at least, I assume it is. Cats chasing mice type of thing. I should also state this was my very first serious graphic novel.
I was never into graphic novels/comics until recently and I find I'm very particular about them. That could be part of my problem as well.
I really just don't have a lot to say about it and nothing really good to say, for that matter.