Angelas Ashes Cd

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Summary: Sorrow
Review: This book is so moving that I could only read a little at a time. I finally obtained the Audio version and found it to be more sorrowful but so very beautiful. I am no hungry for Irish History and I would like Frank McCourt to recomment a place for me to start. Barbara Stevenson

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Summary: MAGNIFICENT!
Review: THE BEST BOOK IN A LONG TIME! I DIDN'T WANT IT TO END, BUT STILL, I DESPERATELY WANTED THE PAIN TO STOP. THE AUTHOR PUTS THE READER INSIDE HIS HEAD. WONDERFULLY FUNNY, HEART WRENCHING AND SO MOURNFUL.

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Summary: Learning How Good You've Got It.
Review: This book teaches you that you really have it better than you think that you do. Just imagine if you had to live like that. Most of us have never had to live with a brother or sister dying let alone three. How many of us in this country have had to go with out food or live in one room? How many have had to go without shoe to wear to or had to make sure that there were no fleas in our bed? There have not been as man of us begging so that our kids can have something to eat or shoes on their feet or a bed to sleep in. This bool helps you to really see what we have and how lucky we are that we live in a warm house, with shoes on our feet, food in our belly, and healthy and happy kids at our feet. Also this book gives me more appriciation for my mother and everything that she did for us. Frank's mother did somethings for them,but, other things that should have been done she never did. She relied on the kinds of strangers a little TOO much. The things that she did with her cousin is outragous. There is nothing that would cause me to do that. I would rather cut my arm off, than have to sleep with someone, let alone a cousin of mine, to keep a roof over my kids head. I would have found another way to live.

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Summary: Never Forget Who & What Made You What You Are
Review: Frank McCourt has such an intrinsic writing style, that progresses as he ages throughout the book. He takes situations and stories that would normally bring you to tears, and he leaves you laughing at the irony and the matter of circumstance. This book takes you back to your own childhood and our mentality that was once innocent, but somehow becomes enhanced with impurity and self-righteousness. Ancestry is such a gift that can only be best explained by the people that struggled to get to where they are today. Frank McCourt's story is a wonderful memoir that inspires its readers to create their own destiny and work to achieve the goals we set.

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Summary: Ashes in the Mouth
Review: This opinion is evidently heretical. I must admit to being only 150 pages into the book and am weary of reading how Dad spent the family's dole money in the pub (which has happened about 20 times so far)while his children starve and die of pneumonia. The portrait of Irish poverty is gripping but degrading in its constancy and pervasiveness. Enough is enough! The style is flowing (storytelling style, not, great literature) and had the book been written by anyone else, I wouldn't have slogged through the Limmerick mud even this far.

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Summary: If you read nothing else this year... read this.
Review: From the moment I opened this book until the moment I closed 'Tis', the sequel, I was utterly compelled by Frank Mc Court's incredible honesty and writing. He writes not only about the events of his poverty-stricken Irish childhood without over-emotionalising, but forces every one of us to re-examine our own lives, and wonder: what's it all about? This book is NOT depressing, it is enlightening, inspirational, moving. If you haven't read it yet, I urge you - this book will challenge, motivate and alter your perspective on life. Get it, read it - and then prepare to go straight out and buy the sequel!

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Summary: READ IT!
Review: I never wanted the book to end!

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Summary: A Must Read
Review: I never wanted the book to end. After I had finished it, I ran to buy the sequel 'Tis.

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Summary: Ach! 'Tis deeply disappointing!
Review: Frank McCourt's writing style is fantastic, but the content of Angela's Ashes leaves much to be desired. I like a book that teaches moral integrity, that shows that man or woman can overcome the filth of everyday life. This book did not meet that criteria.

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Summary: GREAT STORY.....
Review: Delightfully rich memoir of Ireland......I just read a memoir called PERAMBULATIONS by CS BACK which reminded me of this book,,,,except PERAMBULATIONS is more descriptive and I could identify with it as an American male.