Full Maus

First, off I'd like to say that I appreciate both authors because they both have their own highs on my scale, but if I were to choose between the storytelling of O'Brien and Speigleman, I'd hands down have to give it to Speigleman.  Not only due to the fact that it's a graphic novel, because believe me, that's a huge thing to me, it's also in the way he butchers his english in order to make it sound like it is being told from a Polish translation.  There are just so many little details that I love in his writing style that just drive me to read more of his.  And as far as comparing the two authors, they have pretty polar opposite ways of writing with little similarities.  I say that because as I'm sure that similarities exist, I haven't seen any of them yet.  I mean...  they're both about war and the tragedies that happen during war, and they're both being told by a survivor, but as far as the writing style goes, I see nothing the same.  In Speigleman's novel, it's being told in the third person, whereas O'Brien talks in the first person.  In Maus, it's being told very specifically, whereas with The Things They Carried, it's being told almost artfully.  One of the biggest things I liked when I was reading Maus was when Vladek would be telling his story and it would cut back to Artie and Vladek talking out of character.  I like this because it supplies a bit of "reality" for lack of a better word.  Anyways, I'm sorry I don't have too much to say, because they're both really incomparable styles, but that's my take on it.