Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

33 reviews

charliewarliee's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

Maus is a beautiful graphic biography of Art Speigelman's father's experience during the holocaust as a survivor. This book is just stunning and every single person on this Earth has to read this book. I personally believe it should be made essential reading due to how important these topics are. The book is also not trying to glorify his father, even though he was a survivor, he is still flawed. Most history textbooks will only share an experience by the mass, but this is a personal experience that has such significant impact. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide, Grief, Hate crime, Abandonment, War, Animal death, Confinement, Deportation, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Violence, Vomit, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Slavery, and Torture

sashajamesmybeloved's review

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Racism, Grief, Violence, Suicide, Antisemitism, Injury/Injury detail, War, Death, and Xenophobia

annabeth_jackson's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Police brutality, Self harm, Slavery, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Trafficking, War, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Confinement, Grief, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Child death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Genocide, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Racism

sknappy1's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

A very difficult, but very powerful read. The artist details his father's experiences as a Holocaust survivor, as told directly by his father. What I appreciate it about this was the breadth that was covered. While Anne Frank's experience focuses on hiding, and Elie Wiesel's focuses on the concentration camps, this this book covers a broader range of everything. You see and experience the gradual buildup of everything from the beginning before the problems started and then how everything got progressively worse. You see how Vladek experienced losing his successful business, to having to hide, to being in the ghetto, all the scheming required to get by, to being in a concentration camp, what happened after they got out of the camp, etc. You also learn about so many other people's experiences based on his descriptions of what happened to people that he knew. This book really made cry a few times, so go in prepared. It starts off pretty easy, but later on there are some real gut-wrenching moments, but that's the reality of how it was. I also appreciate how the author details the difficult relationship he has with his father.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Confinement, Death, Antisemitism, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Mental illness, Child death, Suicide, War, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Torture

lynxpardinus's review

dark emotional informative reflective

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

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

Minor: Dementia and Car accident

ladyzbyrd's review

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

rosalind's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Murder, Xenophobia, War, Torture, Antisemitism, Grief, Genocide, and Violence

Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Suicidal thoughts

mtnest's review

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

rosenym's review

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, Murder, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Antisemitism, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, and Racism