Reviews tagging 'War'

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

256 reviews

mmatyld's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Racism, Islamophobia, and War

erikajoy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism and War

solid_circle's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Mental illness, Self harm, and Torture

alex_wordweaver's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

I've wanted to read Persepolis since I first saw it in my high school library. I'm so glad I finally got to read it. It was a great, fast read. Super informative and engaging.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and War

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Homophobia, Xenophobia, and Vomit

thegardenlesbian's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Muy buen libro, me ha llenado el corazón. Recomiendo a cualquiera que lo lea. Es increíble la conexión que se siente con la autora, especialmente de niña. Te hace llorar de tristeza y de risa.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

lulubellabooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

I believe that some books should be read by everyone, and this is definitely one of those books
What a true emotional rollercoaster. 

I think that the graphic novel format of this book helps turn this into something that younger people can read and understand. It should be read by people of all ages. We are shown very little about Iran other than the connection with fundamentalist  fantlaticism and terrorism. It's what the media does. It shows you the bad things. This book is so enlightening that I feel enriched with new knowledge that should be known by all.

When what happened to Anoosh happened? I wanted to cry. 

The things women were told so that they'd west a veil? I wanted to cry.

I admit that I giggled at the part where Marjane goes to hang out with 'anarchists', only to turn up and see them playing hide and seek and capture the flag!😂

Truly brilliant book that I recommend strongly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Sexism, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and War

itsgs's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture and War

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

jakepasseri's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

4.75

For me, the power of Persepolis is in allowing a reader to understand massive conflicts not through statistics, troops or other top-down view, but through the perspectives and lives of individuals. It allows us to understand the humans at the heart of conflicts that get lost when you cannot connect with them in other mediums

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Minor: Bullying, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

fionag's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Death of parent, and War

nornors's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Sexual harassment, and War