Anyone ever read Art Speigelman's "Maus"?
Opal Isle
11-11-2004, 04:10
I love the communist guy from Auschwitz...
Skibereen
11-11-2004, 04:13
Parts of it.
I did nt have the money to buy it or the time to sit in the book store--yes I read books in the book store then put them back on the shelf.
Even if it takes more then one trip.
Conceptualists
11-11-2004, 04:13
Yeah, but it was quite a while ago, so I have forgotten most of it.
Gnostikos
11-11-2004, 04:14
I read Maus II...it was pretty depressing.
New Foxxinnia
11-11-2004, 04:16
I read both of them. Pretty good.
Cannot think of a name
11-11-2004, 04:17
I love those books, very moving and complex.
Soviet Narco State
11-11-2004, 04:40
The dad was the coolest. I want to be exactly like him in 40 years-- completely out of my mind.
AnarchyeL
11-11-2004, 04:43
Funny you should mention it. My girlfriend and I were just deciding to have our students read it next semester.
Katganistan
11-11-2004, 04:44
Maus is actually part of my school's classroom libraries. Very good, I thought.
Conceptualists
11-11-2004, 04:48
Parts of it.
I did nt have the money to buy it or the time to sit in the book store--yes I read books in the book store then put them back on the shelf.
Even if it takes more then one trip.
I used to do that. I managed to read nearly all the Asterix books that (somehow it was less fun at home)
Bandanna
11-11-2004, 04:52
it was required reading for some class at my school, so it was on the textbook shelf.
i of course took this opportunity to get it and charge it to my parents as a textbook. i think i finished both volumes in under 24 hours. so good.
not to mention: Art Speigelman quit THE NEW YORKER because he said they were too complacent and complicit in american imperialism. now that's some high standards. i know he's written more stuff, and i plan to track it down eventually.
Desis and Polacks
11-11-2004, 05:24
I read the first one a few years back. Pretty gripping and powerful, especially at the end.
WesternAustralia
11-11-2004, 07:50
I haven't read both books right through but they very very dark.
Keruvalia
11-11-2004, 08:15
I have both, autographed. I also have an original drawing of his he sent me on a postcard in 1997. He's a nice man.
You should check out his book about his 9/11 experience called "In the Shadow of No Towers".
Powerful stuff.
Read about it here: http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/towers.html
Listen to the NPR story (with interview) here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3908199
Keruvalia
11-11-2004, 08:32
http://www.unlc.biz/towersTerror.jpg
Copyright (c) Art Spiegelman
Powerful, amazing graphic novels. My history teacher used them in class. I totally recommend them.
Helioterra
11-11-2004, 08:53
Powerful, amazing graphic novels. My history teacher used them in class. I totally recommend them.
Seconded
haven't read the newest yet, but I'm going to buy it today. (present for a friend of mine, I'll read it before I give it away...hss...)
Maus I and II are two of my favorite books. Incidentally, while tracing my genealogy I discovered Spiegelman's father was from the same Polish town as my mother's ancestors. Interesting.
The Tribes Of Longton
12-11-2004, 11:03
Art Spiegelmann is (I think) the only comic book writer ever to win the Mann Booker Prize (?) or something very similar.
I own the complete works in this large black book
w00t!
Sheilanagig
12-11-2004, 12:19
I'm thinking of parting with my left boob to get my hands on a copy. It might not come to that, though. I might be able to save it and use it for a full library of the Freak Bros. I'm seeing what I can work out on Amazon.
Yeah, I've read it. I loved it. It was one of the best graphic novels I've ever read.