I really loved this book, it was great to read and I loved that it was written by a true Irish man. The book was very good at describing Ireland back in the 30's and 40's which were hard times. The book showed deep emotion and I could not help but get gripped from the first page. Frank McCourt was a...
What amazes me most is that the poverty was so tragic and yet, whilst I was tut-tut-ing, I didn't find myself to be sad at all. The humour tempering the (what could be a great) sadness in such a way that though you sympathise with the McCourt family, you'd admire the resources of the young McCourts...
FM's writing tends to bore me. I think what it was with this book was though that I had a pretty hard time with the subject matter as well, so it took me forever to get through this book.
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhoo...
This book tells the story of author Frank McCourt's difficult childhood. Either he has an amazing memory or, more likely, he's embellished a bit of this to fill in the gaps to make it a readable memoir. I can't remember what I ate for breakfast, never mind what I ate or longed to eat for breakfast...
I read this book before I had learned to be skeptical about memoirs. Since then I've gone a little sour on memoirs and biographies in general. It all seems so self indulgent and then there's that problem of discerning reality from dramatic embellishment. I think even the most honest author has a ...
Overrated. It's just one man's story, and I've read just as good and definitely better memoirs than this. I didn't even keep it when I was done. I donated it to some book sale fundraiser.
This book caused a sensation as it came out of nowhere to dominate all the best seller lists for months. That does not typically mean I rush off to read it, but in this case recommendations from those whose sentiments I value, were so consistently laudatory that we read it for our reading group. Wha...
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