Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

20 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

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

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

redheadorganist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Confinement, Genocide, Grief, Antisemitism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Medical content and Toxic relationship

metawidget's review

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

pika's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

Nazi Germany concentration camps

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Racial slurs, War, Death, Genocide, Body horror, Grief, Police brutality, Racism, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Murder, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and Physical abuse

kshertz's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I don’t think anyone could ever rate this book as less than five stars. It has completely changed so many peoples lives and given such an insight into the life of a survivor of the Holocaust. As well as the life of the descendants that come after. It was very impactful to read again after so long. I highly recommend everyone read this book at least once if not multiple times throughout their life. It really helps to gain perspective and remember what all people are capable of if we are not careful. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Death, Gaslighting, Genocide, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Violence, Deportation, Grief, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Gore, Hate crime, Torture, and Xenophobia

m4rtt4's review

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

xwritingstoriesx's review

dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Trafficking, Violence, War, Slavery, Physical abuse, Murder, Torture, Death, Grief, Suicide, Emotional abuse, and Genocide

Moderate: Child death

wanderonwards's review

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