Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Complete Maus, by Art Spiegelman

40 reviews

flowerssss's review

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Murder, Grief, Gun violence, Antisemitism, Genocide, War, Confinement, Death, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Mental illness, Body horror, Blood, Violence, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/injury detail, Medical content, and Child death

Minor: Xenophobia, Cursing, Excrement, and Racism

bootrat's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, Religious bigotry, Racism, Murder, Child death, Antisemitism, War, Hate crime, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Death

maria_winther's review

5.0

the book worked really well in every way. the artwork, the pacing, the shifts between then and 'now' – it just made it all the more real 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Antisemitism, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, and War

Minor: Racism

odetojersey's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Antisemitism, Racism, Child death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, Genocide, Violence, Racial slurs, Suicide, Confinement, Hate crime, Death, Police brutality, and War

Moderate: Cursing and Medical content

caelysium's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Genocide, Murder, Police brutality, Death, Child death, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Antisemitism, Torture, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Injury/injury detail, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

velokei's review

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

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

starla_anne's review

adventurous emotional informative inspiring tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Mental illness, Genocide, Antisemitism, Violence, Death of parent, and War

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

morrisimo's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

Wow. A harrowing and brutal depiction of the Holocaust told through stories from father to son. I think the juxtaposition of time works very well, and the examination of Art and Vladek's relationship speaks to the impact of the Holocaust on the next generation. I liked how reflexivity was used to examine the implications of writing the book. I also liked the use of different animals to represent different ethnicities, especially the cats and mice as Germans and Jews. The way the story is told is extremely personal, despite the de-personification. We experience both the Holocaust and the father-son relationship on such an intimate level, which makes them all the more powerful. It's a difficult and upsetting read, but it's phenomenal in its execution. I strongly recommend this book, and even though I'm not huge on comics or graphic novels I want to read more of the author's work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Suicide, Death, Murder, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Gore, Kidnapping, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence