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Jan 09, 2011
Slayermel
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The second instalment of Maus focuses on Vladek’s stay in Auschwitz and how he got through the whole ordeal to live on and tell his story to his son. This second part of the tale is a lot more disturbing then the first half, which was bad enough. We learn about the gas chambers and the ovens, and how poorly the people in the camp were treated. I can’t imagine how anyone who survived that ordeal went on to lead a normal life, which explains why Vladek was so frugal, though I think frugal is to li
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The continuing story of the author's father's time in Auschwitz and their relationship. Again so sad and so powerful, and totally amazing that it's all in comic book format.
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Maus II is a continuation of the graphic novel memoir of Art Spiegelman's father as a Jew during World War II. Maus II picks up where Maus I left off, with Art's father, Vladek, being taken to Auschwitz. The reader is told the story of Vladek in two time periods, during his trials in the concentration camps during the War and his life in America in the 1980s. You see the man that Vladek became and you wonder how much his war experiences contributed to his personality. You also see how the author
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I didn't find this quite as amazing as the first one. Perhaps that's always hard to do in a second book. But the intermingling of the horrors of the camps and their aftermath with the difficulties of having a normal life afterwards(which takes up even more space in this one)still has a powerful effect, making this a book definitely worth reading.
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Graphic novel writing and reading at its best! Spiegelman has created an amazingly innovative presentation for material that you would think had been covered from all angles. An important addition to any reader's Holocaust collection.
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I found this book to be more often the story of the author and his relationship with his father than the concentration camp experiences of the father, though those experiences were related and recorded. It was important history to read from the point of a survivor but I did get frustrated with the son's impatience with his father. It seemed self=centered.
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These Maus graphic novel books are super quick to read - especially when you HAVE to finish it before you go to bed. A great ending to a true tale of what it was like to survive the concentration camps as a Jewish Pole. Or should I say a Jewish mouse. For any graphic novel lover or anyone interested in learning more about life during the holocaust.
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Gretchen
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Arlene
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