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Summary: Staggering.
Review: Words can not really describe my feelings as I was reading this autobiography. McCourt captures the experience of the Irish Catholic childhood with faultless accuracy. The guilt, the shame, the humiliation, the systematic and completely accepted abuse (both physical and emotional) of the Irish Catholic child, which begins from the day they are born, is faithfully portrayed. This book will make you laugh, cry and seethe with rage at the injustice of it all.For me it was a great source of comfort. Thank you Frank McCourt - how you survived you childhood is a miracle indeed.
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Summary: heartbreaking
Review: I bought the book thinking it would be a very light reading material which I heard from those who read it. I don't know how one can write with such humor and lightness about a very unfortunate life... McCourt's attitude is very much reflected in the way he had written the book.. No bitterness, no remorse... I laughed and cried while reading it...... an excellent read!
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Summary: Angela`s Ashes- The Child and Poverty
Review: This is a very interesting book, it make us think that the poverty, misery, alcoolism are an important problem, and the children are the principal victims. The author wrote us with an simple language, making easy understand the circunstances where the subject happened.
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Summary: disappointing
Review: Worse than the ordinary miserable memoir is the miserable Irish memoir. I wanted so to like this book. I didn't. The narration seemed somehow dishonest to the memories, through a lens that didn't just cloud them with gauze, but adulterated them. I was put in mind at the beginning of Dicken's Mrs. Gammage, who 'feels it more' than anyone else. Self pity is never pretty. There are so many better writers who have tackled the same territory. To be fair, it was not so much the narration of events that struck me as dishonest, but the characterizations. Memoirs are by their nature egocentric, but I found this one too maudlin.
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Summary: A Magical Book
Review: Like some reviewers, I found it hard to get past the initial extreme emphasis on poverty. However, poverty is not the point. Hope is the point. Reading this book can be a harrowing experience at times, but is ultimately a joyful one. Anyone who came away from this book with a sense of dread missed the point. The story may be sad, but Mr. McCourt writes it with such beauty and forgiveness that it is a cause for celebration.
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Summary: Must read this book.
Review: This book made me laugh and made me cry. But most of all I felt that, as a young person, it gave me a really new perspective into the hardships that many people had to face during that time in history. It also reads like a novel and is very easy to get into.
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Summary: The Best Book I've Read!
Review: I was told about this book in my Creative Non-Fiction class at OSU and decided to pick it up one day. Then I couldn't put it down. Mr. McCourt's style is perfect: other than the first few pages explaining how his parents met and married and had him Mr. McCourt NEVER speaks outside of his age. When he is four you see his world through the eyes of a four year old. When he is ten you see the world through the eyes of a ten year old. Never once does he "reflect" on his life as a child at all; no, instead he re-lives his childhood. This makes the story absolutely immediate. When I tell others of this book I tell them not to bother with borrowing the book at the library--buy it and buy it now! It's a book you'll want to keep.
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Summary: Captivating
Review: Angela's Ashes is an EXCELLENT read. If you are deeply moved by the strength of the human spirit and the hypocrisy of mankind - this book is a must read. I read it in 2 days.
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Summary: Angela's Ashes
Review: Excellent reading! A perfect combination of emotions. I loved it
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Summary: PHEW!
Review: What a ride! You'll laugh, cry, exhilarate, and despair-all on the same page. Trapped in a childhood of extreme poverty in Limerick, Ireland, Frank McCourt not only survives but thoroughly conquers. In the depths of even this much misery, however, there are small mercies and kindnesses and they are not lost on him. This is what gives the book it's humanity-the ability to withstand horrific circumstances through humor, determination, and forgiveness-and triumph with soul intact. And the people! They seem more alive in ink than most of us seem in flesh.
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