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Summary: amazing, poignant, and funny...
Review: Amazing! McCourt's original writing style has to stay in the reader's mind forever... I loved this book!
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Summary: Couldn't put it down, after I finally got involved
Review: I must have read chapter one 10 times before getting into this book. But, it kept drawing me back. The writing in this book is excellent. I feel like I am running along the streets of Limerick with Frank McCourt. I do agree with the reviewer that said that it is never really made known how he feels about his parents, especially his dad, and the end happens way too fast. He ages 3 years in a paragraph, a little unsatisfying, but only takes away a little from the book. I've sent my husband to the store to price Tis.
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Summary: Hold on to your hearts
Review: Read this book... if you've ever pondered the deeper meanings of life... if you've wondered why some of us seem to suffer more than others... if you can't imagine what there is to be grateful for... if you need a good cathartic cry... if you don't have time for your children... if you've ever thought it ironic that we (man & womankind) so often torture each other in the name of God... and especially if you've forgotten your own childhood experiences of discovering the horrors and the joys of the seemingly absurd adult world around you.
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: Angela's Ashes was a wonderful book. It is so similar to my father's life when he was a small child in Philadelphia during the late 1920's and early 1930's. It touched my heart! If you haven't read a book in awhile, please read it! If you read all the time, please read it! The story will touch your heart.
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Summary: Angelas Ashes
Review: A superb book I must say. I couldn't put it down! I suggest you read it! So graphic that you can see Limerick in your Mind's Eye. Compelling yet sorrowful. I loved the book!
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Summary: angela's ashes
Review: Great novel.You have to read this book
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Summary: Excellent Read!
Review: As I was casually browsing at the bookstore the other day, I picked up this book, scanned the first page and was instantly taken to Frank's wit and humor. This is a superb piece and once you have had a glimpse of little Frank's life, you'd want to be with him every step of the way. It never ceases to amaze me how the world is seen through a child's eyes. Frank McCourt made me laugh, cry, love, cry and then laugh again.
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Summary: A very Moving Memoir
Review: Angela's Ashes was a very moving and emotional book. It was the heavy story of Frank McCourt's Irish Catholic childhood, yet it was written in such a witty way that it doesn't wear one out when reading it. McCourt's style, especially with the converstaional sections in this book, adds a world of meaning to a very witty text and paints a picture of all of the characters in this book. When one reads the way the old Irish folk songs and poems are woven into the story, one cannot doubt that the author really did live this life, and that all of the details are truthful to fact. I, as a reader, would recommend this book to anyone who is a serious reader and is prepared for an emotional jorney through the life of the author, Frank McCourt.
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Summary: can't put it down
Review: i read on my commute to work (by train)and so, if i stay awake through the ride, it's a miracle. but with Angela's ashes the pages passed and before i knew it, my trip was over. i finished the book in about 5 commutes (10 hours give or take). if you have ever been frustrated by an old priest or nun telling you to offer up some insult to god, and wondering instead why they don't offer sympathy or help, you will see where this nonsense came from. by the way, there is a small undercurrent of the irish community who denounce the book because it brings up the bad side of ireland, and they usually maintain that their family was never like the McCourts. well, my family was not either, but the book tells its great story nonetheless. by the way, i've been to Limerick in the Fall. can't imagine a more depressing,damp, grey place. read the book. read 'tis as well
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Summary: Similar to "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
Review: This book was interesting, yet I found it somewhat lacking in that he reader never really got to know how he actually felt about his parents. Did he hate his mother and father for what they put the family through? How did Frank feel when people kept comaring him to his father? We know how he felt about the Church (and by the way, this IS how the Catholic church and its members treat you if you are poor and Catholic--been there, done that!)I guess it was a love/hate relationship. Even though I plan on reading the next book, I only gave it three stars, becasue I found the story line too similar to that of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," another novel about being poor, Irish Catholic with a drunken father. Those who liked this book should read that one.
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