Angelas Ashes Cd

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Summary: I really want to visit all the places Frank talks about!
Review: Powerful! A true tale to lead a person in appreciating the life they have had. Well written and the pictures painted by his words are clear. I wanted to reach out to his mother and hold her hand. If I can be half as strong as her for my son I'd be thrilled.

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Summary: A great book from a great teacher!
Review: Mr. McCourt (I can't think of him as Frank) was my English teacher at Stuyvesant High School in 1979-80, where I had two terms of creative writing with him. He told a number of the stories that ended up in Angela's Ashes (and will no doubt be in 'Tis) to our class, and we all urged him to write them down, to write a book. It sure took him long enough, but it was well worth the wait. That he survived a childhood he had no right surviving and then wrote about it without anger and animosity is a tribute to a great man, a great teacher, and a great book. It proves that the human spirit lives within us all, and triumphs over adversity. Mr. McCourt wrote my college recommendation, and I can honestly say that it is due to him that I am a successful Senior Editor at a major publishing house today. Viva McCourt! P.S. A little known fact is that one of Mr. McCourt's favorite authors is Mickey Spillane.

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Summary: ONE OF THE WORST BOOKS I EVER READ
Review: ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE! This is one of the most depressing, filthy, repetitive, boring books ever to be published. The people are well aware of their situation of being in poverty yet do nothing to try to better themseves. They are ignorant, crude, rude and obnoxious - a very poor example of the true Irish spirit and an insult to anyone from Ireland. Please -SAVE YOUR MONEY - DON'T BUT THIS BOOK! It isn't even worth one star and I am sorry I ever read it!

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Summary: A touching tale of the survival of the fearless
Review: I have read lots of memoirs before but none has touch me like the way "Angela's ashes" did. This book is a lesson for our generation of 'take-things-for-granted', an inspiration for the cynics who no longer believes in life and hope for those who are still trying to get through each and every of their painful seconds.I couldn't never find enough word to expressed my feelings and appreciations for this book. Despite of all the madness in this insane and incomprehensible world, I know there's always hope.

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Summary: Excellent story of a young boy surviving a tough childhood!
Review: Frank mcCourt is a credit to irish litrature with his wonderful story of a childhooh in a family living 'the hard life'! I LOVE IRELAND! Thiofidh ar lá!

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Summary: Very harsh but interesting
Review: I don't know how he survived his cruel childhood. I think it is a wonder how he has managed to get his life together. He is a honour to the Irish people. We are all very pround of him. He took care of his mother,father, brothers and sisters. I wish him the best of luck in the future!

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Summary: Excellent
Review: I am an avid reader whom enjoys all types of books, and I pick this book to be one of my favorites. No lengthy explaination needed. Buy it and enjoy.

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Summary: osclaigi leabhar agus leigh e! (open the book and read it!)
Review: As an American of Irish heratige, i don't know if Frank McCourt's story is accurate as it is beautiful, and I have heard mixed reviews by Irish persons (especially those from Luimneach). However, as a writer, I encourage everyone to read it. Irish or not, this is one book that is captivating in both subject as well as style. McCourt's book is a beautiful account of an exhausting childhood. Yes, there are your typical Irish stereotypes (ie. the drunk father), and this does anger some folks. Yet you can't dispute what McCourt's truth was. A drunk father and a cold, wet childhood were McCourts truths, and bless him for being able to survive it and tell it without bitterness, rather with beauty. So, osclaigi leabhar agus leigh e! You won't regret it.

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Summary: What a book...Enough said.
Review: I have never been so moved by a book before. Frank McCourt shows the negative side of Irish life in the 1930scmeanness, prejudice, bigotry and hypocrisyc Yet, he tells it in a funny way that has the reader in tears with laughter at times. That he was able to look back at such misery, squalor and unhappiness and still do this shows just how great an author he is. If you want a down-to-earth, realistic and in-your-face of Irish life in that period, you owe it to yourself to read this book. We can thank God that young Frank lived through his illnesscwhat a shame if we had not been told his story..

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Summary: Where would we be without a sense of humour?
Review: An eloquent tribute to the strength of the human spirit! Definitely not for the faint-hearted.