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Summary: Great Irish read
Review: I laughed and cried when I read this book. He really hit it true. It reminded me a lot of a collection of haunting short stories by Ross Brinn, called "To The Woods and Waters Wild" after a line from a Yeats poem. Check it out at Amazon. Keep them coming! Erin go bragh.
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Summary: RIGHT TO THE HEART
Review: THIS IS THE MOST DEPRESSING NOVEL I HAVE EVER READ. I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT. FRANK MCOURT DOES AN EXCELLENT JOB OF DOCUMENTING EVENTS. GREAT DESCRIPTION AND DETAIL.I FELT AS IF I WAS LIVING WITH YOUNG FRANK'S FAMILY AND EXPERIENCING EVERY HEARTWRENCHING MOMENT. I LAUGHED WITH FRANK AND LITERALLY CRIED WITH HIM TOO. I APPLAUDE YOU, FRANK MCCOURT,FOR A JOB EXCELLENTLY DONE!!
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Summary: ma's drunk and pa's crying
Review: chapter 1 pa's drunk and ma's crying and the little wee ones have soiled themselves. it's raining here in limerick. i.chapter 2 ma is sitting by the fireplace crying. so i go down to the pub and there is pa. he is drunk. chapter 3 so we go to america. tis a wonderful place. it might rain in limerick but it gets godawful cold in new york. and by the way, pa is drunk and ma is crying by the fire and the little wee ones have bees knees and thrushes ankles before them on the supper plate. i.
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Summary: This book deserves to be read for originality alone.
Review: I was made read this book as part of a summer project. I reluctantly picked it up as I hardly ever read and only 3 books have glued me to their words in my life. I started reading about Frank and his family in America, how he lived in a small flat with his parents and his brother Malachy. I read how his father was a drunk and how Frank and his family moved back to Limerick in Ireland. This book puts your brain in the the head of a young Frank McCourt and lets you live his life as he comes to terms with Life in Ireland and becoming a Catholic. It is filled with Hysterical happenings which actually happened and sad periods of his mothers life as she loses child after child to terrible sickness caused by the river Shannon. I thought that I was the only one who read this book and I wanted to tell the world about this amazing story, but when I emerged from Franks life, I found it had won awards including the Pulitzer prize. I was so emerged in this book that I wanted to visit the graves of his twin brothers who died and go to the streets mentioned in the book in Limerick. Read this book, because if it amazes me who finds books boring then maybe it'll do the same for you.
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Summary: TRULY MOVING AND IT WILL LEAVE YOU DRAINED EMOTIONALLY.
Review: ALL THROUGH THIS BOOK YOU FIND YOURSELF WANTING TO HOLD, NURTURE AND PROTECT THIS SWEET CHILD. I KNOW THAT TO FORGIVE IS DEVINE BUT I DON'T THINK I COULD FORGIVE FRANK'S FATHER FOR HIS "WEAKNESS." THE PAIN HE CAUSED IS SO GREAT THAT YOU ARE AMAZED THAT YOUNG FRANK EMERGED DETERMINED, STRONG AND VERY ENDEARING WHILE HE DEVELOPES HIS SURVIVAL SKILLS. JUST PUT MY ORDER IN FOR 'TIS AND CAN HARDLY WAIT.
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Summary: McCourt is a great storyteller in the Irish tradition.
Review: "Angela's Ashes" is the melancholy story of the McCourt family as told through the eyes of Frank McCourt. McCourt's family went to America and then back to Ireland. The story continues until Frank is nineteen and leaving for America. The strength of the book lies in the vivid characterizations, the honesty of the narrative and the beautifully descriptive writing. McCourt puts you in the town of Limerick with the feckless McCourt family and their troubles. The book has its imperfections. McCourt indulges in a great deal of repetition. We hear over and over again about a relative who was dropped on his head as a child. Over and over, McCourt's father goes to the pubs to drink up his wages. There is an inevitability to the suffering that is incredibly depressing. The McCourt family is reduced to begging, to painting their legs black in order to hide the holes in their stockings and to living in a house with a sewer inside used by the entire neighborhood. "Angela's Ashes" is a story of survival against great odds, and it breaks your heart to see people suffering like this. McCourt certainly captures the feeling of what it was like to grow up in Ireland in abject poverty, suffering tremendous hunger and humiliation on a daily basis.
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Summary: This is the best book ever !!
Review: Okay if you want to hear what a 12 year old thinks of this book read the rest of this review . Okay I read this book over the summer and it happens to be the best book i have ever read . It is sad , funny and none the less well told . Frank McCourt does an excellent job telling the interesting story of his childhood .
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Summary: overrated. dull. ponderous.
Review: i feel like the only person who didn't like this book. instead of describing a compelling situation, i found myself bogged down in a cycle of alcoholism, poverty and despair that can be found in virtually every inner city in America. but without any pertinent lesson, without any point. i read the book without expectations, and got what i expected: nothing. i could not recommend this book, nor suggest it has anything of value to add to the literary community.
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Summary: Powerful. A story of a family who barely survives.
Review: I could not put this down. McCourt creates powerful images of Ireland around the time of WWII. While the McCourt family suffered exteme poverty, the reader is amazed by their will to survive. Visitors to Ireland will appreciate descriptions of the damp and of the pub life. Those who are interested in the conflict between the Republic and the North will see how children are raised to support their heritage. A detailed depiction of a poor, Irish Catholic family. Cannot wait for the sequel!
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Summary: Lyrical and beautiful, NOT
Review: An alcoholic father drinks all his familiy's welfare money and causes the deaths of the majority of his children through malnutrition-related diseases. The mother doesn't object to this; in fact, she does nothing except smoke and have more kids. This is the entire story. It is not lyrical and beautiful; it is simply squalor.
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