Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

61 reviews

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

tollbooth's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cursing, Antisemitism, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Genocide, Gun violence, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Suicide, War, Violence, and Child death

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

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

leonineliterature's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Even better the second time around than first time I read it :')

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Deportation, Hate crime, Antisemitism, Death, Genocide, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, War, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide

rosyburrow's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Violence, Antisemitism, and Torture

Moderate: Mental illness

folly's review

challenging informative sad tense slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Confinement, Death, Antisemitism, Suicide, Child death, Death of parent, and Genocide

Moderate: Racism, Toxic relationship, Deportation, and Racial slurs

Minor: Sexism and Grief

eringrace42's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Grief, Death, Antisemitism, Child death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, War, Confinement, Xenophobia, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Suicide