[Maus by Art Spiegelman]

I began reading it! My first impressions were that someone had poorly translated the book. But then I realized that accents are given to people from the "old country", which I found to add definition to the characters.

 

Now, to answer one of Polka Dot Rock's leading questions:

If this is your first time reading a graphic novel, how are you finding reading the format so far? Do you find it 'easier' or more difficult than reading a purely text-based book? What do you think of Art Spiegelman's style of writing and illustration?

 

Even though I knew it would be a graphic novel (because you told us in the description of the book), surpisingly, at first, I didn't really pay attention to the illustrations, I was just reading the text and consepualizing it for myself. Then, all of a sudden I realised that there were differen't animals. I reamember glancing at one of the pictures and seeing a pig and thinking...either Spiegelman can't draw, or that's a pig... . I'm still reading, so I don't know exactly why Spiegelman would do this, but it does seem significant.

 

[Hardback vs paperback]

Well, I like the hardback books best, because they are more aesthetically pleasing to look at.