false 15195 15 Volumes I & II in paperback of this 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated narrative of Holocaust survival. 1658562 1993 The Complete Maus total:5313|5:3353|4:1508|3:389|2:56|1:6| 5313 24085 6613 497 5 12 false true Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Sep 10 21:33:57 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 06 14:20:30 -0800 2009
OhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygod! I'm cheating on J.M. Coetzee with Art Spiegelman. Actually, I'm not just cheating on him; I've left him.

Review:

Before I review this book, you should know something about me: I never read graphic novels. I normally have ...more...]]> 5 4 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 05:29:33 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 05:38:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 15:46:03 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 03:02:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 02:06:33 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 02:30:41 -0700 2008
After historical study, movies (Schindler's List et al) and novels (Sophie's Choice etc.), I felt I had had enough of Holocaust stor...more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 12:39:09 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 13:12:01 -0700 2008 Maus is not just a great comic book. This is one great book, ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 05:11:22 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 24 09:49:16 -0700 2008
it will also make you laugh, and considering the topic of the book, i think that's quite a feat. for example, one of my fa...more...]]> 5 0 false true Sat Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Sat Mar 21 19:33:20 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 10:08:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 00:18:41 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 00:19:43 -0800 2009
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Maus: A Reader's Tale

In his Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud coins the phrase "amplification through simplification." He uses the term in re...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 06:18:26 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 14:38:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 06 17:20:05 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 17:21:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 13:28:16 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 10:50:59 -0700 2009 Maus is about the story of how a mouse and his wife survived the holocaust. His son wants to write a graphic novel about it so he asks his dad all about it, so he tells his story. It is an epic tale of a Jewish maus with many talents and how he survived. At age 20 Spiegelman is drafted fo...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 16:05:39 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 16:22:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 14:06:52 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 15:00:17 -0700 2009 1
The most impressive thing about this book, to me, is the clear-headedness with which Art Spiegelman portrays his r...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 07:37:40 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 08:34:39 -0700 2009
A biograp...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 14:12:57 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 03:30:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 15:09:52 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 23:00:56 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 21:04:53 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 08:41:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 10:25:07 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 17:59:51 -0700 2009 Maus is a two-volume comic book memoir written by the son of Auschwitz survivors, about their story of survival and also the author's story of his somewhat difficult relationship with his dad. (An aside here - I had a hard time coming up with that first part, because I didn't want to say "graph...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 05:09:48 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 04:29:31 -0700 2009
The book worked well for me, as it not only journals a very personal experience of the holocaust, but also t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 05:20:36 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 02:20:58 -0800 2009
This graphic novel collection chronicles the story of the writer's parents through pre-WWII Poland, into the occupation of Poland by NAZI germany, and follows the story until the conclusion of the war.

Each different type of people involved in the war are drawn as diffe...more...]]>