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Summary: McCourt is a literary genius.
Review: What a wonderful sense of humor and art of description. The Irish are noted for their gift of "story telling" and McCourt is #1. I've recommended this book to friends and family and they all loved it too! Can hardly wait for his Franks' next book.
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Summary: 'Tis a good read, 'tis
Review: I love this book. When I read it my heart and soul are filled with every emotion. Frank McCourt is an excellent writer. Every person should want to and have to read this awesome and inspiring book. Thank-you Frank McCourt for touching my heart.
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Summary: compelling and memorable
Review: I just finished Angela's Ashes and my mind compells me over and over again to think about Frank McCourt's astonishing triumph over an underprivileged childhood. He makes me look again at a snapshot of my brother and me at ages 6 and 3 in 1950. I'm wearing his hand-me-down overcoat and his brown shoes. My brother's clothes made me feel special and happy not sad and sorry for myself. How little we need to be happy. Mr. McCourt has made me remember how good a warm soft boiled egg with butter tasted when I was a small child. My parents had little to offer but love and I am greatly honored to have had such a gift of dedication. Thank you Frank McCourt for making me remember that the human soul can triumph over overwhelming odds and be the better for it. Thank you Mr. McCourt for a special book that I will remember in my heart always. Thank you Mr. McCourt for helping me not visit the guilt of nonsense spread by supersition and ignorance.
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Summary: An ebullient embodiment of the indomitable Irish spirit
Review: Reading this book while in the west of Ireland, some of it near Limerick, I was both crying and laughing at McCourt's ghastly tale. At last I'd found someone with a childhood like mine, and worse to boot! Only the Irish could find humor and love amidst the wrenchingly painful poverty. A true tribute to the resilience of the human spirit - McCourt reveals the dark side of what it means to grow up Irish Catholic and poor.
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Summary: a beautiful book, when I started I couldn't stop reading
Review: Before I write about the book, I want to say that it's real difficult for me to write about it in english because I'm still learning to write english for school (I'm 17 and almost ready with my secundary school) , so that's why there will be a lot of mistakes. Sorry.What I liked a lot about this book, was the way it was written, simple and clear. The humor was also great, the book tells about an miserable childhood, but still there are things to laugh or smile about (not making fun, if I wrote that wrong) and though it is a book about an poor and miserable youth, still you can feel some luck in the describing of his youth (in my opinion). It's a real big book, but I was never bored, I enjoyed every minute of reading.
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Summary: I could not put this book down
Review: This is one of the best books that I have read in such a long time. You can not put this book down at all. It is hard to believe what a hard life Franky went though. In this book I laughed and cried. By reading this book you learn more about caring for what you have. This is a great book but it is sad.
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Summary: too depressing to be true
Review: I read the book, and the harrowing experiences of the author at times seem too depressing to stand an inch in the truth, tending to be more like a tv soap opera script that just could not see the light of day.
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Summary: a wonderful book about a young boy and his family
Review: I read this book, becouse everybody in my class in school have to read one. I started it one week ago and I am so impressed. It is very well written. You can feel while reading it how much these family suffers because of having not enough money. It was quite a good experience for me. Please excuse any mistaces.
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Summary: A Great Read for the Season
Review: Angela's Ashes is one of the greatest books I have ever read. It involves the story of a young boy in Ireland and his struggle to survive the harsh realities of poverty. That little boy's name is Frank McCourt, an immigrant from Ireland to America, and back again. The story's plot develops itself slowly, but once you reach it, you can finally see why it's written in a first person, biography format. He is telling you the stories, the cold facts, of his childhood as a boy. He doesn't sugar coat anything, but he never directly comes out and says certain things. When he talks about his experiences with love, he never says, "I love her", he says, "She takes up space in my heart and I cherish her every word". The book's underlying emphasis on Catholicism and it's power in Ireland is clear more towards the end. You learn of the intolerance the people there have towards the Protestants and the English. It's also a matter of accepting the fact that they believe Catholicism to be the one and only religion. The book won a Pulitzer Prize, it's not hard to see why. The description and imagery are great, and the memories it brings back for the reader are incredible. The one thing that this book really does, and really pounds into you, is that you have to realise how lucky you are. "Frankie" came from nothing but poverty and a broken family. He had nothing to start with, but slowly worked himself up to become a respected man. It's no wonder you cheer for him the whole book. I wish that I had read this sooner, when my grandmother had recommended it. I thought I wouldn't like it. The dark humor shown is a little disturbing at times, but like any TV show or movie, it's gone and voer with before you have any second thoughts. It's the underlying sense of self-determination and self-reliance that will really hit you in the end. There is one fault with this book and it's style. There are no quotation marks. You don't have any knowledge that someone is speaking in some places so you have to go back and re-read it to make sure you didn't miss anything. I wish he'd had used them but the lack of them makes the style even more creative.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: I throughly enjoyed this book and found it very hard to put down. It made me laugh and cry with tears of joy and sadness. Thank-you Mr McCourt. I'm eagerly awaiting your next book!
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