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QC Forum Book Group - Nominations for Book #2
snalin:
Maybe I'll try this out. I don't spend much time in books usually, but that's because this subforum is mostly about Television series and I don't really like watching that stuff at all.
I've been planning on reading both Lovecraft and Maus, the first since so much pop culture is about his works, and I've read one of his shorter stories, which was amazing. I think I've read/heard about Maus, it's a graphic novel about jews in nazi-germany, right? Where the Jews are Mause - mice? Or am I thinking of something else?
smack that isaiah:
I loved The Wasp Factory, so I'd be up for reading more Iain Banks. I already had to read Maus (I and II) for school two years ago. They were good (especially the beginning of II), but I wouldn't want to go back to them. Holocaust readings in general--to me--are worth reading for the awareness of it, but I don't like going back to them (they're all so emotionally drawing).
I'll probably pick up and read the Iain Banks regardless of what wins.
--- Quote from: snalin on 21 May 2010, 05:57 --- I think I've read/heard about Maus, it's a graphic novel about jews in nazi-germany, right? Where the Jews are Mause - mice? Or am I thinking of something else?
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yes. And the Germans are cats, French are frogs, British are fish, Americans are dogs, etc (I can't recall Russians, I'm not sure they're in it). Although, if any people of these nationalities are Jewish (birth or conversion), they are represented as mice regardless of their background. It's a lovely metaphor,
and one of the best things about this is that it's written by the son of a Holocaust survivor, not the survivor himself, so there's the running narrative of him getting the story from his father and interpreting it. These graphic novels have a different approach to the Holocaust than other Holocaust stories, which made it really stand out to me.
october1983:
I'm basically down with reading anything on this list! Looking forward to it.
Scandanavian War Machine:
crazy coincidence, batman!
I'm, like, halfway through The Mountains of Madness right now and it's really awesome. Think I might vote for Maus though, just cause I've never read it and it seems pretty interesting.
Liz:
Goddamn it my book is going to lose again. I will read Blood Meridian without all of you twats!
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