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Summary: A total waste of time and mind
Review: This book is without any redeeming value that I can find. It is a disgusting walk down memory lane of what must have been the most dismal, sad and wretched childhood one WOULD NOT WANT TO RECOUNT IN VIVID PRINT.
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Summary: An engaging read!
Review: I think that this book was a great look into the mechanisms of the present Irish demarcations in society. McCourt was specific, but he just wasn't as poetic and proficient as I expected.
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Summary: misery isn't necessarily literature
Review: Yes, it moves along pleasantly, yes, he has an enormous gift for constructing scenes. But, when I was reading it, I found myself gradually thinking here I am, inclined to give this man a lot of credit because he had horribly difficult beginings and his style of retelling them is so humble and warm. It's not a book to make you think - at all - that is, unless for some reason you've never had any other occasion to think of the misery of other people. It's not a book that challenges one's way of approaching the world, at all, unless one has never considered the differences between having and not having, before. In other words, if you're really smug and insular and have gone around all your life thinking that waiting in line at the supermarket is an inhuman punishment, Frank McCourt will rock your world. Otherwise, I'm not so sure. Otherwise, it's just a good book, not the best. Which is why the wild acclaim it's received makes me kind of uneasy.
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Summary: A good book
Review: this is one of the best books i have ever read. it reads like poetry. i reccomend it to anyone.
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Summary: Most rewarding book I have read
Review: I read Angela's Ashes on the recommendation of a friend. Far from disappointed, I found myself enchanted by the delicate and humorous narration. Nearing the final chapters, I was disappointed only by the reality that I would soon finish this enjoyable book. A superbly written masterpiece. Possibly the most rewarding book I have ever read.
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Summary: The best and the worst of humanity.
Review: To hell with Dickens and his Chistmas Carol. Here is a classic to be reckoned with. Imagine having a pig's or sheep's head as the main course for your Chistmas feast. Who needs ghosts to explain the meaning of life when you have an angel waiting to explain it on your very own step?Frank McCourt paints a tale more poignant and classic than any fiction in history. How could one find fault with a protagonist who is a mere child and one weaned on abject poverty, no less? How could find fault with an antogonist who is the child's father, plagued by hopeless alcoholism and who's dream of a Free Ireland has left him in the mere shadows of the Erin's fighting spirit and idealism? You can hear the accents of each character and the settings' period in McCourt's choice of words. You laugh along side the voice his memories portray, but by the end you are weaping for the meager existence of his family and the loss of his innocence. McCourt speaks volumes to the Irish soul in all of us. He makes us long to recall our own youth with the same sense of humor and pure empathy. If we could all love so well. God bless us each and every one.
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Summary: This book really made me appreciate what I have...
Review: I adored this book. It made me laugh, and it made me cry. Angela is the strongest person I know. I don't think that I would be able to go on after one of my children had died, let alone several. Above all that, she wakes up in filth, goes to sleep in filth, but never knows the luxuries that she is missing. That is why I think she survived. Frankie's story is that of a Catholic child. It is amazing to think that a child, growing up terrified of everything he does, actually turns out to be a decent person. Again, I loved this book and recommed it to anyone that needs a good eye-opener. It will forever remain in my memory.
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Summary: Simply a masterpiece.
Review: A haunting, heartbreaking, hilarious masterpiece. I loved this book as much as any I have ever read. Brilliant!
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Summary: Tragic, poignant, hysterical; all in one memoir.
Review: My wife read this first; she is of Dutch descent, and I am Irish-American. My wife thought the book to be extremely tragic and sad. I, on the other hand, being a New York Mick, took it for what it is; sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious, always to the point. McCourt may not use proper grammar and punctuation, but he certainly can depict a childhood full of deprivation, neglect, optimism, and wonder. Hats off to a man who survived a depression-era Irish childhood and went on to a fine teaching career at New York City's finest public high school.
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Summary: Story that needed to be told, but in a better way.
Review: I read this book because everyone I knew was raving about it. I had to force myself to read it. It was a heart-breaking story, but it was SO hard to endure the way in which the story was told. I found the style choppy and completely lacking in flow. I had the feeling that the story was told from a distant stance - which well may have been the case.
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