MAUS: MY FATHER BLEEDS HISTORY (Art Spiegelman) - January 10/13

I'm still not sure why Spiegelman depicts everyone as animals, when there's absolutely nothing else different here from the truth. (It's not like everyone's fighting over a big block of cheese or something.) But anyway, Maus is basically passable, even though I never really cared about Spiegelman's father. This made it difficult to work up much interest in or sympathy for his exploits, with the hands-off feel compounded by an absolutely atrocious animation style. The book, also, peters out significantly in its final stretch, as the central couple attempts to hide from the Nazis after escaping a work camp. It's fine, I guess, but this won a Pulitzer? **1/2 out of ****