Angelas Ashes Cd

Rating:
Summary: Great book
Review: This is a great book about a man who escaped brutal poverty. Irish folks need to chill out though. No one said all Irish people are like the ones in this book. No need to get all mad about it.

Rating:
Summary: This is one of best books I have ever read
Review: I have read many books in my time, but this book is one of my favorite. It made me laugh durring one passage and cry the next. It is a thoughtful account of a truly miserabule childehood that most never have to expeirance. It is one of the most ingaging and truthful books I have ever read, it reminds me of James Herriot. I love this book and I think everyone should read it. 'nuf said.

Rating:
Summary: Angela's Ashes
Review: I am an Irish Catholic American who was also poor. This book brought back many memories of my father and his brothers and the stories they told us while growing up. After reading Frank McCourt's book and experiencing all of his emotional highs and lows, I was reminded of a song my family used to sing. It went: On Monday we had bread and gravy. On Tuesday, was gravy and bread. On Wednesday and Thursday by way of a change, we had gravy without any bread! I never took that song seriously until now. Mr. McCourt is to be praised for his story telling and his perserverance. Thank you for a wonderful read.

Rating:
Summary: Homage to Stupidity
Review: Yes this is a great story--but nowhere have I seen any review which dares to say--"The McCourts where failures as parents ,an alcholic and his codependent wife who stood by immersed in their false irish pride and delusions they would have been prosecuted for child endangerment ,if not manslaughter . This book practically affirms every biased , bigoted ,racist stereotype of their neer do well drunked irish .Yes the child sees his parents through nostalgic eyes of love---but the truth remains -his father was a selfish drunken bum---and if his mother had one once of common sense she would have thrown him out ---The book becomes a homage to the stupidity of the parents,thier relatives. the Catholic Church ,and Ireland. I couldnt stand this depressing tale of child abuse but pressed on --hoping somehow his mother would do something to save these children---. What ultimately saved Frank? A luxky break--he was born in the U.S.A and was ultimately use his U. S. citzenship to bail out of the isle of misery.I'm an Irish-American and can say this book has sickened me forever of the tales of the "Emerald Isle" and its inhabitants--

Rating:
Summary: Angela's Ashes
Review: There are a number of words that might describe this wonderful book - haunting, beautiful, lyrical, tragic, sad, funny and loving. Frank McCourt grew up in Limerick in the kind of poverty that is unimaginable in the present day and yet survived to tell the tale of his useless drunken Protestant looking father with the odd way about him and his neglected, lazy, anxious and bewildered mother who picked coal off the road and begged for food and slept with the landlord to pay the rent with love, affection and, above all, unvarnished truth and supreme wit. Told through a child's voice, sparing no feelings on any side,including his own, this is a book that is so beautifully written and so hard to put down that you will find yourself laughing and crying until the early hours of the morning. Unforgettable.

Rating:
Summary: I laughed, I cryed, I learned!
Review: Mr. McCourts story is astonishing and powerful. The honesty in his voice draws you in and the his tale won't let you go. This is a story that will stay with me always; the images are forever ingrained in my mind. I suggest everyone read it and learn from it. Angela's Ashes will walk you through life in anothers shoes.

Rating:
Summary: Well worth the read!
Review: Well this book has gotten a lot of hype, But I must admit is is well worth the read, and for sure in the top 5 books I have ever read.. I think you must go into this book not expecting much, you will get alot out of it that way... McCourt has the ability to make you feel as if you are actuelly the child, and through out the hole book you are either laughing at the small jokes, or crying at the drama in it... A must read for those who love emotional books.

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: This is a book that will make you cry, laugh, get angry, depressed, happy and all at the same time. It is sometimes slightly graphic, but not so much by today's standards. Mostly it is honest. You feel as though you have visited a time in history that was very hard for everyone the world over and you arrived at the lowest common denominator. You can't imagine that it could get much worse than this, yet there is hope and there is survival in the end. Frank McCourt has a conversational style that immediately engages you giving you the feeling that you are sitting around the fireside with him. I couldn't put it down.

Rating:
Summary: Ashes to Ashes
Review: This book is outstanding. As I read other customer reviews, I see criticisms of McCourt's account of his life in Limerick--that it lacks sensitivity or other writers/contemporaries have said life in Limerick wasn't as gloomy as McCourt paints. This book is this one man's story. It begins in the limited perspective of a child and broadens to that of a nineteen-year-old young man. Rarely have I read a book where I find my self laughing hysterically at one passage and then crying as I read the next. McCourt is a master with words. As devastating the reality of his childhood was, this story was hopeful. McCourt had his sights and mind set on more than the limited options he had as a poor child in Limerick. This is a story of a young man setting and accomplishing goals even through adversity. The story-telling narrative is engaging. If you are criticizing his telling of his story, perhaps you should steer clear of memoirs. Otherwise, I would highly recommend this book and his next book Tis.

Rating:
Summary: The best memoir to date.
Review: Mccourt has written what I think is the most ambitious true-story in our lives today! Wow, what a book this is, I recommend that everyone should at least read it and decide for themselves, everyone at Amazon should read it as well. Great reading is what this book is!