Maus

Well it is another Saturday night, and I am rushing to finish my blog posts again, so I will just gush about how much I loved Maus.
I have only read the first book so far and I am anxious to read the second, if I like it anywhere near as much as I loved the first one it will be fantastic. Everything about this book I found amazing, the interweaving narrative between the present, with Art talking to his father Vladek, and the past with Vladek talking about the holocaust with Art makes for a very interesting story. The story could be almost unbearably grim if it was just Vladek talking about his experiences in Nazi occupied Poland, but because of the interviewing narrative with the past and the present it gives one room between all of the disturbing events that took place under Nazi occupation. The present can be somewhat humorous with Vladek and his son bickering about little things that one would think Vladek would not care about, having gone through the horrors of the holocaust.