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Summary: I don't get it.
Review: I can't believe all the fuss and accolades about this book. To me, it's a load of whiny self-pitying tripe. Intolerable.1 star is too much for this book.
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Summary: Sobering
Review: Credit to you, Frank McCourt, for surviving the desperate childhood described in Angela's Ashes. I have seen poverty before, but now through you, for a few hours, I've lived it. You've slapped me in the face and made me truly appreciate what I have.
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Summary: Well written full of emotion and characters
Review: I recommend this book to anyone who's looking for a great book to read. There's a little Frankie in everyone of us and the book takes us back to a time when we were younger and less fortunate. Well written in first person prespective I recommend it to anyone who would like to write a memior of their own.
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Summary: Sad but Wonderful
Review: This book was great. It was a very sad, deppresing tale with humor and hope keeping the family alive. At times you could feel tears forming in your eyes and at other times you would laugh aloud. It was a great book. I recommend this book for serious reading, not at night, it gave me bad dreams. A very great book. I can't wait to read Tis.'
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Summary: Why Did This Get The Prize?
Review: If you enjoy misery and abuse of others as escapism for yourself,then this is your book.Don't think you'll gain many insights into Irish culture here.....if these people are even real or truthful they are way outside normal life.So what's to be learned from that? How many times can you read that Dad spent all the dole money at the pub while the kids went hungry....before it loses it's meaning? For me there's nothing here,especially since this same story has been told thousands of times before. If you like watching the Christians and the lions go at it then get this book.
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Summary: Guiness and Harp
Review: It's a book of opposites blended with perfection. The bitter and the sweet, the hope and despair, the sin and salvation. Bravo!
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Summary: Hunger and poverty at it's best!
Review: Once in a while you read a book that really sticks in your head. This is one of those books. Being a work of non-fiction it is pretty amazing to believe that one can go through all these things that Frank went through and still be alive. Although there is nothing funny at all about having a lousy childhood, Frank somehow manages to bring out the humor in it. A fantastic book that eveyone definetly should read.
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Summary: Give us more.
Review: Mr. McCourt: Your book is the first one I ever read that actually brought tears to my eyes. Tears of anger! frustration! compassion! sympathy! I want to know more. More about your brothers Al, and Mike. What ever happened to them? What about your father? Did you ever see him again or hear of him. Your mother. Did she eventually get to come to America too? Also, what was your first job after you arrived in America? I'm sure there is a grand story to be told there also, that would answer all these questions. If there is, I want to know it. Your book truly is a memoir masterpiece. You told the secrets of your boyhood both good and bad and I applaud you. I am happy for you too because you rose above all the misery to become the man you are today. God bless you.
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Summary: Deserves more than 5 stars
Review: This book was great. It was funny at times and then when you turned the page you feel tears falling from your eyes. This book was incredible. I read it in 2 days and loved it. I have seen the movie and loved that also, although it was very depressing as well as the book. The book was better though. I am going to start 'Tis but from what I hear it is not as good as Angela's Ashes. Either way I will read it to find more about Frank McCourt's Life. This book is highly recommended
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Summary: An unusual gift of love, humor and trajedy.
Review: This is a memoir of humor, tragedy, and the trappings of culture and religion. Not being Irish but raised as a Catholic, Angela's Ashes brought back memories of catechism classes taught by strict rules adapted to the culture of the times. I remember being taught that only Catholics went to heaven and that any and all sexual thoughts or deeds would damn one to Hell. This is not to undermine, however, the book's trajic story about poverty, alcoholism and growing up in a culture where the "drink" is associated with many social activities. Additionally, Frank McCourt writes a memoir that personifies the American dream. It touches a chord inside all of us because we have all heard similiar stories passed on to us by our own parents and grandparents. Angela's Ashes makes us both proud and sad to be Americans, lets us snicker at some silly long-held beliefs, and forces us to question the wisdom and the teachings of our religious and societal rules. It is a book that stays with you for a very long time.
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