I read ‘Tis when I was a teenager, and it’s one of those books that have always stuck with me. I’ve wanted to read Angela’s Ashes for years. I’m glad that I finally got a chance to read it. Frank McCourt was born in depression-era New York, but poverty and his father’s drinking drove his immigrant...
Innocence was never this hilariousI really enjoyed reading this book. It was like a part of some review on the backflap promised it to be: you can open it up on any page and find yourself drawn into the story. The writing style was a little hard to get into for me at first. I think it took about 50 ...
I am searching for more pages, one final chapter. This cannot be how it ends. No, I'm not longing for more because this story was so captivating or the prose beautifully poetic. I seriously can't believe that this whole story leads up to such a lame let-down of an ending. Did I truly just read 362 p...
I can't say I was overly fond of Frank McCourt's celebrated memoir. I found it vaguely disingenuous from the beginning (really, Frank? We're supposed to believe you have such a clear and concise recollection of things that happened before you were five?), which made it difficult for me to really set...
I wanted to love this book--so many whose opinions I respect adored it beyond words. I actually saw the film and remember liking it a lot. At first I thought I would love it. The book is McCourt's memoir of his miserable childhood in Ireland. With an emphasis on misery. The first pages really pulled...
Didn't finish it, quite early I think, since the degree of self-induced suffering in the family seemed either so oversimplified or so ridiculous that it became unacceptable as a conscious act, even the act of writing it without editorializing.Later, if I mentioned the book in Ireland, one or two edu...
The best audio book I've ever listened to! McCourt reads it himself, sings the songs, and weaves such a magic spell that you laugh while you cry and are deeply moved.
Memoir about growing up in Limerick, Ireland in the ’30s and ´40s in poverty and with a father drinking the little money the family has. Times are grim and stay grim and where other memoirs tend to go from grim to growth in the form of some sort of reflection throughout the story or at the end, this...
Knowing I'm in the 1% of reviewers who didn't give this book four or five stars, I'm reviewing it nevertheless. A friend gave me the book and on her recommendation that it was wonderful, I began reading. I put off reading the book for many years because I knew it was very sad. And it was sad.I rem...
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