Customer Reviews
WOW - By: craig thorpe (thorpey_99@hotmail.com), 22 Aug 2001 
This is probably the most moving & touching book I have read & I implore anyone & everyone to read it. You will laugh & cry, sometimes in the space of a few pages, not many books have that effect on an reader! Spiegleman has created a masterpiece that fully desreves the many accolades that it has garnered over the years both individuallly & with it's predecessor, My Father Bleeds History. Possibly the most definative, & human account in any form of the nature & also the effects of the holocaust. The authors use of animals serves further to heuighten the readers guilt that as a race we alllowed something like this to happen..the animlas highlight just how we alll, not just like the germans behaved over the jewish situation & we continue to behave alll over the world today.
A masterpiece, it brings recent past history alive. - By: , 10 Aug 2001 The way of drawing charachters & objects, the dialogues & the plot enter in the reader's heart in deep. The book not only describes the persecution of jews but also the signs that this period has left on them after the war had finished. And the fact that people are represented as animals gives a surreal atmosphere that underlines the foolishness of the holocaust.
this book was absolutly fantastic!!!! - By: , 17 Feb 2001 How can you see for real what happened to the jews during the war?? just read this book to find out!!!
A Cruel Game of Cat - and - Mouse - By: Withnail67, 09 May 2000 Forget alll you know about comics. The is literature without peer in the struggle to find a way to respond to the Shoah that has poisoned Europe this century. Art Spiegleman tells his father's story in such a way as to reveal the grief of the post-Holocaust generation. The pictures are the most perfect black-and-white, the issues never so. Beautiful drawings in the tradition of European woodcuts, horror in the tradition of our dark continent. Everyone on Earth should read this book.
REQUIRED READING - By: , 27 Jan 2000 Every kid should pick up this book instead of or before they read their copy of the Koran, Bible or Torah. This book transcends age & education. It is powerful enough to move those who already know about the holocaust & perfectly structured to inform those who do not.
