Reddit reviews The complete MAUS
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Reddit reviews The complete MAUSWe found 17 Reddit comments about The complete MAUS. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Must mention Maus. It is a truly moving account of a Holocaust survivor's experience to his son. It was the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer.
People are being shitty but you're not the only person who feels that way. It's why Maus is such a good book.
They are allowed to be made and used for art and education. The book "Maus" was allowed to keep the swastika on its cover when sold in Germany, but they had to go through a whole approval process.
Got the complete mouse from amazon
If you google "mouse comic pdf" you can also find the first of the two books
Have you seen Maus?
I've specifically read documented cases of it happening during the Holodomor, as well as among [Soviet prisoners of war](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_prisoners_of_war_(Nazi_Germany) (a group of Holocaust victims that are often overlooked, ignored, or simply not included).
Off the top of my head I can't recall ever reading about cannibalism happening inside the concentration camps. This does not mean that it didn't happen, and logic would tell us it almost certainly did. However getting caught engaging in cannibalism would almost certainly be a capital offense. Furthermore there is the cultural stigma that it carries. These factors would contribute to participants remaining silent on the matter.
Other factors would include a lack of the necessary free time required to engage in it (daily schedules for prisoners were meticulous, and purposefully designed to ensure very little free time and privacy), a lack of method for preparing a body for consumption (some barracks had stoves but they were usually in the middle of the room and therefore constantly under scrutiny, and then you have to think about the tools that would be required to butcher a corpse. It would be very difficult to butcher meat without a knife, and where do you get that in a concentration camp?), and finally the fact that any bodies that would be available for consumption would almost certainly be severely malnourished and therefore not a great source of nutrition (and it's not like humans are an ideal source of food to begin with).
However, knowing what we know about starvation, it almost certainly did happen. At some point when human beings' needs are not met, we WILL revert to our baser instincts. I have read accounts that inmates would beat or kill over matters of food. Fistfights would often break out in the meal lines (your place in line could easily determine whether you would get food that day). Inmates would eat food regardless of its condition. Even if food was moldy, dirty, soggy, or stale, it would still be eaten. I've read that when soup was spilled, inmates would drop to their hands and knees and suck at the mud in order to get a few drops. In addition to the simple needs of humans, food could also be used for bribes and favors.
If you have any clarifying questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
EDIT: As far as bugs and rodents, I again can't recall any specific instances, but when you're starving to death, you'll eat anything. Conditions in the camp certainly attracted all sorts of vermin, so they were definitely available to those that could devise a way of catching and eating them.
Sources
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Hitler's Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Transmetropolitan: 10 parts of awesome cyberpunk by Warren Ellis
Maus: a stand alone emotional smackdown about the holocaust.
Preacher: 10 parts of religious Americana as a group of dark characters go on a literal quest to find God. (Very different to and IMO much better than the Amazon series)
The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil: 1 part, Simple but beautiful art that tells a deeply personal story of a man struggling with chaos in an ordered world.
Freakangels: Another Warren Ellis 10 parter, a slow burn story of young people with powers struggling through a devastated world.
Kingdom Come: A one part "what if" style DC comics story with eye popping art and heavy themes.
Watchmen: The first of the grim and gritty superhero stories and still one of the most relentlessly bleak. (Much better than the movie adaptation)
Maus is another good example.
please read MAUS https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-MAUS-Art-Spiegelman/dp/0141014083
/u/P0rtable_Panda has totally stolen my thunder by recommending Preacher, and I see from the comments that you already have Watchmen (thus have excellent taste)
So, what would I recommend?
Hopefully it's not too controversial to recommend two true stories which are told in graphic form. They are easily two of my favourite books of all time and Maus even won a Pulitzer.
Maus is the story of the artist's father and his experiences as a Jew during the Second World War. The Nazis are drawn as cats and the Jews as mice. It is utterly heartbreaking and the images make it somehow ever more terrible. It's a wonderful telling of a story though and I recommend it to everyone who asks about graphic novels.
My second recommendation is Persepolis which is a story about a girl growing up in Iran and her thoughts about the regime and how it treats people. It's a really interesting look in to another culture that I didn't know much about.
I've got the 25 year anniversary edition of Maus on my wishlist, but anything would be wonderful if I win.
EDIT: Crap, I forgot my favourite character! I think it would probably be Cassidy from Preacher.
Firstly, I love that dude in that gif up top. I can't not smile like a maniac when I see it!
Last year I read 26 books in total. A lot of those were literature from a course I was studying and included such classics as The Cruicible, Maus and Lolita to name a few of my favorites.
A large amount of my other reading was biology/physiology related books to do with my degree, which I will spare you all from here, save one honourable mention to a complete story of cancer research and treatment starting from it's inception to relatively present day. The book is called The Emperor of all Maladies and it is a "biography" of cancer and it's treatment written by a very prolific caner researcher. It has loads of really heartwarming (and emotional) first hand stories and really gives you a up close and personal look at the world of cancer without you necessarily needing a scientific mind.
This year I want to get a bit more casual with my reading, maybe lay off the science so much and read more for fun again. I have been meaning to go back to the Artemis Fowl series as I really enjoyed it as a kid. I have been told it is a good one to re-read as an adult. I also have a metric tonne of assorted Douglas Adams books that I want to read, including all of the Hitchikers and Dirk Gently series.
If you wanted to learn about the Holocaust but reading text books isn't your thing I highly recommend reading the graphic novel, Maus. It's an incredible book.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0141014083/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479671331&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=maus&dpPl=1&dpID=517h%2B3SR8aL
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus
It's also the surname of the author of one of the best graphic novels ever written.
>rats can't be Jewish
https://www.amazon.com/Maus-Survivors-Tale-Art-Spiegelman/dp/0141014083
Es hilft dir vermutlich nicht, aber ich empfehle dieses Buch.
If your match also likes comics or art I recommend [Maus: A Survivors Tale](http://www.amazon.com/Maus-Survivors-Tale-Art-Spiegelman/dp/0141014083/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394842982&sr=1-2&keywords=maus