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Feb 19, 2015
mehg-hen
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I got mad to a level 9 out of 10 because someone decided to use an instrument incorrectly in a commercial for a cable company, and I wanted them to use the instrument correctly because it is funnier in a subtler way. Sometimes I get mad 10 out of 10 when I feel ignored and written off, i.e. not included when a group is making body odor jokes.
Maus is the kind of thing that lets you see and really imagine the kind of horrors that would kill you, or break your spirit, or make your humanity crumble ...more
Maus is the kind of thing that lets you see and really imagine the kind of horrors that would kill you, or break your spirit, or make your humanity crumble ...more
I have read more accounts of the Holocaust than I can remember... it's like I'm obsessed with trying to wrap my head around how and why and understand, not just the fear and evil, but also the spirit of survival and how one moves on afterwards. Spiegelman's tale touches on it all... it's a fascinatingly simple telling of his parents' internment at Auschwitz, their survival and his coming to terms with being the child of survivors. It asks more questions than it answers--I read it as a story of r
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I can't believe it took me such a long time to finally read Maus. I sat here and finished it this afternoon...with a toddler running around me shouting about buses. I loved the book. I can see what it is on all the lists for "best graphic novel".
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Nov 11, 2019
James Vickers
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it was amazing
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