Angelas Ashes Cd

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Summary: Let's all give Thanks!
Review: An incredible story of hopeless odds and absolute victory! I have great respect and admiration for Frank McCourt. I'm looking forward to learning more of his life after his unbelievable journey to the "land of opportunity". This book truely makes you count your blessings.

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Summary: thought provoking
Review: I felt like I was reading about me while reading "Angela's Ashes." Me, in a different time, a different gender, a different country...but it was me. It's a book about love, acceptance of things that you don't want to accept..but you can't change..of forgiving and seeing the good in people even when you have to look real hard for it. It is written with honesty and humor and has helped me to improve my outlook on my childhood experiences. Thank you Frank McCourt.

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Summary: McCourt suffers much and learns little
Review: I laughed, I cried, I howled at the wonderful, painful stories of McCourt's childhood in Ireland, and at the end, I threw the book across the room. McCourt shows us how he never seems to have outgrown his adolescent sexual obsessions. After reading for many pages of his exploits, at the end of it all, after McCourt arrives in America, he proclaims it is a great country. Why? Because it brought him freedom and he is able to finally be himself, and leave his suffering and errors of judgment and honesty behind him? No. Because he is able to bed an American married woman--with a priest in the next room--within an hour of his arriving in New York. What a summary there could have been, of learning by mistakes, of appreciating other people, of growth. Instead we are left to assume that McCourt learned nothing, except lying, stealing and adultery are the way to go. No balance. No maturing. No thanks.

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Summary: I couldn't put it down
Review: I read this book and then gave it to my mother. We both loved it and laugh today when we talk about Frank throwing God up in his grandmother's backyard. The poverty is painful, it is so sad that all this little boy wants is his own boiled egg and that he has to walk around bare foot or in tire shoes. Read this book, you will enjoy it. All our best to Frank.

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Summary: Couldn't put it down!!!
Review: A wonderful book! Frank McCourt tells what could be a very sad story with such charm and humor. I was not able to put this book down. I have told all of my friends to read it.

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Summary: Flawless
Review: What a wonderful book. No one has ever written about poverty in quite this way. What is so powerful is how vividly the McCourt's living conditions is portrayed without ever resorting to self-pity. How lucky for us readers that Frank McCourt was able to escape his condition and grow up to write about his youth and coming-of-age with such intelligence, humor, clarity, and forgiveness. I will not soon forget any of the characters of this exceptional memoir.

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Summary: Amazing Book!
Review: Around 1845 in Limerick, Ireland William H. Reynolds was born. He later moved to America. In 1996 his descendents found his name and the place of his birth. I heard about this book that takes place in Limerick, Ireland. I got the book because I was curious about the town my son's ancestor was born in - but I finished the book thinking more about my own life. It's an amazing read. I don't know what William Reynolds life was like in Limerick - but I know that my life will be just a little bit better for having read this book. Thank you, Mr. McCourt, for enriching us with your story. I can't wait to read the next book.

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Summary: This book was truly amazing...
Review: I read this book and found myself wanting more at the end. Frank McCourt told a depressing and dreary tale of his early life in Ireland with a wry wit, but also so vividly that you felt you were along for the ride to experience his miserable childhood.

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Summary: A great read!
Review: Read slowly or ration the daily page consumption so the book doesn't end so soon. I purchased the book after hearing an NPR interview. I loved hearing McCourt relate stories of his childhood and wanted to experience more of his story-telling style. Glad I did! Angel on the 7th step is an enduring image. Having been in areas, years ago, similar to McCourt's Limerick, I found the grimness and perserverence very believable. His stories caused me to share some childhood reminiscenses of my own(however not so dour) with my children. If a book can generate conversations exploring one's personal history with those who can carry it forward - good work! I look forward to the next edition of the McCourt family.

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Summary: I loved Frank McCort's Angela's Ashes.
Review: I started reading the book and enjoyed his way of expressing himself very much. I then began to listen to this book on audio tape. Frank McCort reads it and I believe it meant ever so much more because of his Irish brogue. He reads it straight, just as it is written, with no theatrics. I laughed. I cried. And I could not believe such poverty existed anywhere. The story is through his eyes, as a little child, as an adolescent, and as a young adult. Through out all his pain, he always found a way to hope. Thank you, Frank McCort, for being able to share that part of your life with us.