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Summary: A great story, a must read if ever there was one!
Review: I couldn't put this wonderful book down once I started reading it so I read it all in one day. It took only a few hours to read. What a great story. I have lent it to my best friend and she is totally enamored with it as well!
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Summary: Transcends Irish mothering, gives new respect to "me own"
Review: Very well done, though much too brief a read (my wife and I took turns readin the book and ignoring each other for three evenings each), we need sequals and we need them now. This book is just plain funny in its approach to a range of issues not necessarily lending themselves to humor. Classic Irish, though non-Irish will relate; the topics are universal and the dialog is not contorted into a continuous brogue.
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Summary: Heartwarming
Review: An enjoyable, feel-good, easy read with some very funny dialogue. The relationship between Agnes and Marion was refreshing. I was a little disappointed with the somewhat "forced" ending between Agnes and Cliff, though.
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Summary: I could hear all their voices
Review: From the first paragraph I was hooked! I began at 6:30 a.m. on a beautiful Saturday morning, went through a pot of coffee and finished up at 2 p.m. It was worth sacrificing a sunny day to complete this book in one sitting. Please Brendan let there be more books about the Brownes.
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Summary: Talk from the heart
Review: The characters of Agnes and Marion are quickly developed thru their dialog. Their side-splitting conversations are very earthy though never lurid. I was delightfullly suprised how the tender and touching scenes O'Carroll portrayed cut across class distinctions. This small book covered an amazing gamit of human characteristics: the close loving relationship between Agnes and Marion which I thought was the backbone of the book, how Agnes' family loved one another and looked after each others wants and needs with an almost idealistic lack of selfishness. Mark was more of a player later in the book when he was 14. His industry, motivation and openness serves well as a role model (notwithstanding his little acts of chicanery) and I would hope this aspect is brought out in Anjelica Houston's forthcoming movie. One would have to be a real grump not to howl at some of scenes such as when Agnes bludgeoned Sister Magdalene with a cucumer and at the same time one would have to be pretty hard-hearted not to have a lump in their throat when Agnes' beloved friend Marion dies in her arms. The fairy tale ending brought the story to an apt stopping point. This is a great story, very fluent, easy reading and charged with humaness. I look forward to Brendan O'Carroll's next two parts of the trilogy.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: Only the Irish have this sense of humor! Too bad the whole world does not! Give us more, Brendan O'Carroll!
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Summary: Just Plain Terrific and Not to be missed
Review: This book was just terrific. I couldn't put it down. Can't wait for Mr. O'Carroll's next two books to be published. I was actually upset when I finished the book because I didn't want the story to end.
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Summary: Hysterical-poignant-charming-
Review: You get to know Agnes Browne right away and she and all the other characters become real in no time at all. I laughed with the Browne family and cried with Agnes. Loved the strong sense of family and the humor.I had a best friend like Marion and have fought like a lioness for my children, too. I read on the back cover this is part of a trilogy--I'm heading for the bookstore to get more about Agnes etal.
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Summary: Laugh out loud funny.
Review: A great read ! Wonderful description of characters and everyday life in 1960's Dublin. I'm looking forward to the next two.
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Summary: And It Will Be a Film!
Review: What a character Agnes Brown is. She buries her husband Redser at the outset, then sets to work to raise seven children by continuing her business of selling on produce row. The dialogue is tough and bursting with humor. This woman will not be bested, not by the cancer that kills her best friend, not by Sister Magdalene who cuts her daughter's hair, not by anyone trying to take advantage of her. I hear Angelica Huston is making it into a film. Can't wait.
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