Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here my Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

6 reviews

spicypb's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Religious bigotry, Violence, Death, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Racism, Excrement, Murder, Gore, Suicide, Addiction, Antisemitism, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, War, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Torture, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Grief, Addiction, Alcoholism, Medical content, Animal death, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

gemstonejasper's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense

5.0

Everyone needs to read this and the first book. It's a raw and powerful story of a Jewish man who survived the Holocaust. Check the content warnings and take care of yourself, but it's a very important book.

An interesting quote from pg. 90 that I will be thinking about for months or even years to come:

Art: I'd rather kill myself than live through all that...

Francoise: What? Returning groceries?

Art: No. Everything Vladek went through. It's a miracle he survived.

Francoise: Uh-huh. But in some ways he didn't survive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Genocide, Hate crime, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Torture, Antisemitism, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, Gun violence, Death, Murder, Medical content, Slavery, Body horror, Medical trauma, Confinement, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and War

chaos_animates's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, War, Slavery, Murder, Gore, Antisemitism, and Violence

Moderate: Torture

courtneyivaska's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Maus 1-2 should absolutely be required reading for everyone.  This biographical story of how Spiegelman's parents survived the atrocities of WWII and the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau and sheds lights on the depravity of man and the horrifying choices that people are forced to make during war.  Readers may need to pace themselves (I had to take breaks) but should know that it is worth reading.  In addition to telling the survival story of his father, the book also grapples with the aftermath of war and what happens to people after they have experienced such trauma.  He does not paint his father in a perfect light, instead gives an honest portrayal of someone whose experience is reflected in his treatment of others after the war (i.e. some domestic neglect, racist attitudes toward others, hoarding).   

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Gore, Torture, Suicide, Excrement, War, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Gun violence, Hate crime, Genocide, Gaslighting, and Racism

rtaire's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

 Support banned books! (This review is a copy-paste of my review for Vol 1)

I definitely recommend most everyone read this book (and the first volume). It's a beautifully nuanced memoir of a holocaust survivor and the complicated relationship between him and his son, the comic artist writing/drawing the book. Glad I read the book now when I am struggling with all the grey space of my own relationship between myself and my mother. Makes me feel more at ease about the lack of clear distinctions of "morally good" and "bad", the messy in-between of reality.

The art style really helped to put some distance between me and the extremely difficult subject matter of the Holocaust, which allowed me to keep reading when I might have otherwise needed to stop to preserve my mental health. Still, some of the images are truly haunting and it helps to be prepared to know that these books cover the worst of what humanity is capable of. I still think it is very worth it to remember these atrocities, especially at a time when people are trying to erase them and ban important books like this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, War, Alcohol, Mental illness, Murder, Xenophobia, Death, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Racism, and Sexism

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Violence, War, Antisemitism, Death, and Gore