Angelas Ashes Cd

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Summary: lite,easy reading
Review: I loved this bookand have recommended it to others.I found the story to be sad,open and funny .I loved the way the story is told from a childs point of view.

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Summary: A really good book!
Review: I hated to finish this story! It was such a good book! The author really described everything well, so that I got a better idea of everything that went on. This has to be one of the best books I've read. I can't wait to start the sequel!

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Summary: The most amazing memoir ever written
Review: Angela's Ashes is truly a classic and literary triumph. A book once sad and hilarious, with remarkable mastery of prose. A must read for everyone.

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Summary: I have never been so touched by a book in my life.
Review: Angela's Ashes is without a doubt the best book I have read. I am 14 and this book was assigned to me as a mandatory summer reading assignment. When I first flipped through the book and saw that it was 363 pages and I thought I would never be able to finish it. I kept putting it off until about a week ago when I finally sat down and started reading. After 50 pages I couldn't put it down. I finished it all in less than a week. I can't describe how many emotions were going through my head as I read Frank McCourt's recollection of his unbearable childhood in Limerick. His words are so powerful and touching and real. It really makes me appreciate what I have. I can't wait until I read the sequel.

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Summary: Sad, beautiful, and humorous
Review: One of the most wonderful books I have ever read (and re-read)! A masterpiece!

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Summary: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Review: Angela's Ashes is a wonderful and touching book. Set in the deppression era in Ireland Mr. McCourt brings to life the poverty and darkness of his childhood, but also the touching moments and many comic scenarios which he and his brothers found themselves in as young boys. Overall a truly delightful book to be read again and again

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Summary: Bitingly funny, sardonically poignant
Review: Frank McCourt's coming of age memoir, Angela's Ashes, is a richly textured, finely crafted work that makes life in anything but an Irish household seem bland. The harsh, unblinking depictions of his ineffective, preoccupied and exasperated mother; alcoholic, irresponsible but kind-hearted father; and the sharp, unflinching attidudes of a vast parade of other family characters all set against the cold, stand-offish backdrop of Ireland explained for me why the book received such stunningly negative reviews from members of my own family -- It was too close to their experiences growing up Irish and poor in the states. This book is true gem; It shows, unappologetically, that ugliness has a beauty that prettiness will never possess.

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Summary: Words cannot begin to describe this wonderful book.
Review: Wow. Could not put this book down. Humorous and sad at the same time. I loved every page. Must read!

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Summary: A riveting account of a true triumph of the human spirit.
Review: The story of McCourt's desperate childhood has a two-fold effect. It is chilling and heart-breaking in its harsh reality, but at the same time, his simple, local-dialect delivery, makes these characters come alive. You are fascinated by them. You need to know what happens. You care.

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Summary: A male chauvinist from Irish trash
Review: I resented Frankie for worshipping his father who neglected the children, caring not whether they lived or died (except maybe for his daughter), then rudely scolding his mother for having an affair with another man after the father inevitably left them for good. Was Angela supposed to be the Martyed Madonna forever? How dare Frankie judge her?! From the look of the reviews, it seems people are addicted to stories of grossness, degradation and excrement-ridden lives. I am utterly disappointed. Where is the story of the respectable, poor Irish family? Is there one?