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Summary: Excellent Book! Frank McCourt is a master story teller!
Review: The story is captivating and keeps you interested the entire way through the book. You become very involved with the characters and don't want the book to end. Another must read book that is similar, but just as good is "Finding Peggy" by Meg Henderson. It's based in Glasgow, Scotland and is about the author's childhood in the slums of Glasgow and the remarkable women in her life, her Aunt Peggy and mother Nan and the fascinating other cast of characters that are her family. When you finish "Angela's Ashes" you've got to pick up "Finding Peggy".
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Summary: Ending deliberately left you hanging
Review: I enjoyed reading Angela's Ashes, however, I was rather annoyed by the ending. Never have I seen such a blatant attempt to "force" a sequel! I mean, Frank is on the boat, he's coming to America, and then....that's it! What sort of a denouement is that! None! It's as if Frank McCourt said, "OK, now you have to buy my next book!"Two other comments/questions: 1) How in the world was Angela able to afford Frank's dancing lessons when her children were dying of starvation/malnutrition? 2) Why is the book called Angela's Ashes? (Does anyone know? Has the author ever said?)
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Summary: worth reading, couldn't put it down
Review: This book made me realize that I am very fortunate to have the material items and opportunities I do. It is hard to believe that this takes place this century.
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Summary: Wonderful book for anyone!
Review: Funny, touching, sad. This book about Frank McCourt's life as a child is excellent. The writing style is wonderful. You just want to reach out and give this family a big hug!
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Summary: Value & Respect for life..touch of reality in honest format.
Review: I was drawn in to the lives of Frank McCourt and his brothers and found myself thankful for my own youth. The food on your table takes on a whole new value with its worth. This book was a emotional eye opener to real lives and real people of Ireland. I highly recommend this book to everyone who can subject them selves to realism. It also broadens some respect for my own Irish ancestors and makes me curious of their own struggles during those times. Survival, honesty, and truth is what I found in this book.
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Summary: A beautiful, compelling story
Review: A review this short could never do justice to Mr. McCourt's story. It is tragic, funny, and completely honest, and most amazing of all, based on the author's actual childhood. Told from a child's perspective, it is a sometimes brutally honest view of the world and human imperfections, and yet it never descends into bathos, never becomes judgemental nor condemnatory. The storyteller is Frankie, an old soul of a child, grappling with the deprivation and strange magic of poverty in Ireland. Mr. Mc Court leads the reader by the hand quite matter-of-factly, weaves his spell, and doesn't let go until the end. The abject poverty of Frankie's childhood Ireland will shake up the complacent reader. Living in the Philippines I can identify somewhat with the desperate living conditions that Frankie lived through. A searingly honest wake-up call.
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Summary: Actually, I have questions to those who have read the novel.
Review: Could someone tell me why McCourt used Angela's Ashes, as the title of the novel? and if I am to write a textual analysis of the novel, what will I have to focus on?
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Summary: A complete waste of time......
Review: This is one of the worst books I have ever read. Trying to read it was more painful than going to the dentist.
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: This book was so entrancing that to put it down was torture. Frank McCourt writes with a style of such humanity and humbleness that I haven't seen since Reading 'A Catcher In The Rye' 10 years ago. I am now halfway through 'Tis and am equally pleased.
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Summary: Great book, I want to find more like it.
Review: Frank McCourt is a gifted storyteller and I found this book very funny even though the memories could have been just depressing. The point of view of a child was honest and not manipulative. The feelings and thoughts he remembered to have are the same ones we all shared as children. The memories, prejudice and culture are well weaved into a charming and wonderful memoir. One of the best books I've ever read.
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