Strange Famous

Has anyone else read this comic book, by Art Spiegelman?

My ex-girlf gave it to me, and its really really moving, I read the whole thing in like 2/3 hours but it really effected me, I mean, a lot of people have read survivor stories, I have read a lot of them, I guess maybe it was just the way Maus told its story, the present and the past entwined like that, and the simplicity and visuality of the presentation of it...

Anyway, I would definitely recomend it to anyone

(it is basically the story of the guy's father who survived Auschwitz, and in the story every race is represented as a different animal, the Jews are mice, the Germans are cats, the American's are dogs, the Poles are pigs...)

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sadistikdreams

Yeah, I've read it.

It's phenominal.

And a good way to learn about how people dealt with the holocaust.

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Cycler

Yeah I picked it up when I went to the Holocaust Museum in DC. Good read definitely, and the museum is powerful, highly moving, and enlightening as to the horrors of that time.

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Lebell

An excellent graphic novel that I would recommend to anyone.

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mystmarimatt

I read it back in 7th grade, It was quite an experience. I've always been sickened by the holocaust (well, duh) but this was especially tough to read. I guess the format was just so...innocent, that it increased the shock value.

However, the toughest and most horrifying part to read was the interlogue where the human teenager Spiegelman walks in to find his mother lying in the bath tub, having slit her wrists. Scarred me, pretty much.

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Charlatan

I re-read it recently and just gave it to my 10 year old to read. It worked as an excellent introduction to the topic of the holocaust.

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Averett

I read it in school. High school I think, although it all tends to blend in....

I loved it. I'll have to see if I still have it somewhere at home.

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Average_Joe

It's a very creative read about the holocaust. I read it in college and was blown away that a "comic book" could give such a dark feeling to the reader.

The theme that the English lit. class I took was all about memiors. Some of the other books I remember were decent too: Angela's Ashes, Memoirs of a Geisha, Girl, Interrupted.....I recommended them all for some good reading, but dark stories.

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Spanxxx

I looked through that book in high school. I started it and don't think I ever finished it. It was masterfully done though, from what I remember.

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Strange Famous

Its really moving. The last part, where his father being reunited in life with his mother is set against his death from old age and them being reunited in death... it really brought a tear to my eye.

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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."

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roachboy

i really like maus 2....a beautiful thing...i taught the book in a couple of classes and it works astonishingly well. because of the remove from the events themselves, and the recusiveness i think. great stuff.

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