false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671819m/15197.jpg 15197 14 MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife. 1782551 1991 Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began total:7737|5:4580|4:2366|3:713|2:68|1:10| 7737 34649 8999 369 5 4 false false Thu Mar 26 16:30:14 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 10:00:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 15 22:17:04 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 21:48:46 -0700 2008
It was horrible. We saw the ovens, the gas chambers, the graveyards. The visit drove home to me the magnitude of the horror that had been perpetrated there, and the madness of the people who had orch...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 02:11:32 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 16:57:36 -0800 2009 Maus series, the heart-breaking story of a Holocaust survivor. While in the first book Vladek, the businessman/mouse trapped by history into the most disgusting human-killing machine ever created, is too much of a self-interested combiner, in...more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 23:04:49 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 15:20:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 14:41:20 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 07:24:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Oct 10 18:17:36 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 21 15:46:00 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 19 11:34:01 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 08:05:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 09:11:53 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 09:15:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 05:16:58 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 09:19:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 20 05:43:22 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 21:35:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 17:51:42 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 21:54:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 05:41:28 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 14:17:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 14:28:52 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 08:09:10 -0800 2009
When I decided that one of my 2009 reading intentions would be to move through pivotal nonfiction--the sort of groundbreaking texts that incited change, demanded attention, and made the world in fact and on the page different--it was a thrill to think of...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 11:50:12 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 18:49:04 -0700 2009
I'm not a fan of depressing or Holocaust stories, but what makes this work so well is that it's not really about the Holocaust, it's about the generation after. This, I think, would not have been a Pulitzer prize-winner if Spiegelman hadn't embedded the ho...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 09:34:40 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 04:23:31 -0800 2009
Some may criticize this work by him but I do think it's a masterpiece.
The same idea of gettin...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 20:20:08 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 14:45:04 -0700 2009 Night by Ellie Wiesel. What I find interesting, however, is Spiegelman's unadulterated display of his frustrations in dealing...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 10:32:38 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 10:34:32 -0700 2009
When we last left Vladek, he has just been incarcerated in Auschwitz concentration camp and his future looks bleak. He has just learned that his wife Anja is alive and l...more...]]> 5 0 true false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 09:36:57 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 09:45:07 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 10:26:14 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 02:47:22 -0700 2009
Most of what I wrote in my review of Maus I still stands, but there’s a bit more of the author’s feelings included. You can see the catharsis he’s going through as he writes this nov...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 11:23:08 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 11:27:16 -0800 2008 1
The historical detail in the book was mind-blowing as well as gruesome (obviously.) I also found the father-son relationship to be fascinat...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=15197