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Summary: Get it!
Review: Frankie McCourt tosses you back into a very historic, religious, and class structured life...his own. The differences between North and South Ireland are best portrayed in this masterpiece. The content is humerous and downright sad, but you have to get it. It is a must!
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Summary: Leaves a bad taste in my mouth
Review: Yuck, yuck and double yuck. After having seen the movie trailer while in the middle of reading Angela's Ashes, I stand amazed that this book has drawn such an avid audience (and no doubt the movie will too). The author spends so much time with graphic descriptions of hunger, poverty, disease and filth, but character development, growth, or even self-reflection barely surfaces in this book. I kept reading just to see who was going to die next. As for humor, maybe McCourt's reading on audio makes it funny, but the droll tongue-in-cheek humor that is often based on mockery and ignorance didn't even make me smile. At the end, turning to thievery and adultery could have even been a bit ironic, but in the drab context of his endless laundry list of "this happened, then this happened", it barely registers in this novel. Save your money. Save your time.
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Summary: A compelling story, but I found the writing style laborious
Review: I may be nitpicking, but did anyone else find it difficult to distinguish between the dialogue and the narrative? Can we please return to using quotation marks! A compelling story of poverty, but not a page-turner. A good book for those with lots of free time.
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Summary: Finally the movie!
Review: I can't believe it. I was watching television today and I saw a segment on up-coming movies and they said Angela's Ashes release date is Dec. 22, 1999. I got to see a small clip of it and I was very much in awe of how the characters looked. Just like I pictured them in my mind when I read the book last year. I know the movie will be a huge sucess and I will be one of the first one's in line to see it!
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Summary: Frank Mc Cord will live in your heart forever
Review: This book should come with a warning! You will never be the same again. Frank Mc Cord will live in your heart and soul for the rest of your life. It is a sad moment when the book is finished,because you will feel that you are saying good bye to a loved friend.
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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: I read most of this book to my husband so he could share the story with me. It had us both laughing and almost in tears many times. I am looking forward to following up with Frank's life in 'Tis. Can't wait to hear how he makes out in America!
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Summary: best book I have ever read
Review: I have read many many books but Angela's Ashes is without a doubt the most enjoyable. It is wonderfully written: you hear the child's Irish voice almost as though he was in the same room having a conversation with you. I was laughing , then crying all the way through the book. The honesty is the most touching thing of all. I was so moved by this book that I don't actually have adequate words to express my feelings.
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Summary: Most fascinating honest account of a poor family
Review: I could not put the book down. Everyone I know had to endure my recommendation afterwards. I was very glad when my daughter bought me 'Tis. It was as fascinating as Angela. Frank, though he is now a very rich man, I presume, will always remain deep down the little barefeet boy from Limerick. By reading his books, he made me a better person.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: I find that the book's real value lay in the perspective from which the story is told. I don't believe McCourt meant this to be a "poor little me" book, but simply as a synopsis of the emotional and intellectual development of a young boy, who just happened to be Irish, and who's quality of life happened to be pretty damn awful. Much of his childhood development is very transferrable to most men, regardless of their upbringing. This is what I will remember most about this book, not his worthless father or abhorrent living conditions.
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Summary: A book to keep at the forfront of your library
Review: I'm not Irish although I do have a little lineage there, I'm not catholic (nor particullarly religeous) but I have beliefs of one sort or another. But I found this book deeply moving, not for the religeous or ethnic content, simply for the struggle this family went through to survive, Mr Mc Court's writing is simple and devestating, true from the heart and I can't wait to read 'Tis'
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