The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Book Review: This is one of the most compelling stories I've read to date
Summary: 5 Stars
Maus is in one word 'marvelous'. It is a work of art that is unieque unto itself. It cannot be compared with anything else because nothing can compare with Mr. Spiegleman's comic masterpiece, and it cannot be compared because there is nothing like it. 'Prisoner on the Hell Planet', the work inside the work, is one of the most powerful, savagely beautiful comics I've had the pleasure to read. All in all, it is a great book and I would recommend it to anyone no matter what their reading preferance is.Book Review: THIS WAS THE BEST, MOST REALISTIC BOOK I'VE EVER READ.
Summary: 5 Stars
I first found this book in 9th grade and the teacher told me it's college matierial and too advanced. I sat down with it and couldn't put it down. I especially loved the whole comic book look of it, it made it more interesting. I was never really interested in tht Holocaust, but when I read this book, it took the whole thing from a different perspective, and that's what caught my eye. This book is boss, everyone should read it!!!Book Review: Excellent and original for the most part
Summary: 4 Stars
I can't argue with the critics. The Maus books are exteremely accessible. The story line is riveting. The pictures are dramatic, and the black-and-white heightens the intense drama (as with Schindler's List.) My complaint lies in the presentation of the father, Vladek, in New York in the eighties. Art Spiegelman includes scenes of Vladek going about his living and telling Holocaust stories in New York City. Often, Vladek is presented as temperamental, domineering, miserly, and whiny. I can see why Art Spiegelman would like to present the elderly version of his father as a three-dimensional human character, and not as some god. However, Art owes his magnum opus to Vladek; since the presentation of Vladek's flaws adds nothing to the central focus of the book, I believe it to be disgraceful. Hence, I give Maus four stars instead of five.Book Review: LOVED it as a family member
Summary: 5 Stars
This is very historcly acurate. For those who think not I suggest you watch -'Escape from Sobibor'. It's based on a real event and one jew who ecsaped got beatin to death by fellow polish who hated Jews. This book is a memoir of 1 person who did not live everybodies lives. The only people who got tormented since the begining of time were the Jews and Gypsies. They (Jews) were slaves of the Egyptions and tormented for all their exsitince, as with the Gypsies. Maybe you might want to think of the 'American Dogs' or 'French Frogs' if you want to critize, so grow up and get a history text book! If you'd like to read any of the Maus books, I highly suggest it!Book Review: A unique, excellent, but harrowing book.
Summary: 5 Stars
The horrors of the Holocaust are unimaginable, but by telling the story of his father's life as a Polish Jew in the 1940s in the form of a graphic novel, Art Spiegelman has made the grim history readable and undrestandable. The Jews are mice, the Nazis cats. This is a terrifying, but unmissable book.