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Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Nov 15, 2001
Pros: Excellently written. What an autobiography ought to be.
Cons: Very few. Style does not quite fit the norm.
Summary:
I should make it clear from the beginning, that I have no real love for biographies. There was a time that a biography was written with some purpose. The story of a person’s life was generally not put down on paper for no other reason than to put ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 21, 2007
Pros: Well-written, brutally honest memoir
Cons: None
Summary: When I look back at my childhood I wonder how I survived it 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 10, 2006
Pros: This true story is hard to read and hard to put down.
Cons: This one ripped at my heart. I can't find any compassion for the parents.
Summary: My idea of a good book is on that makes me think and one that makes me feel. Angela’s Ashes fits the bill on both counts, although I almost stopped early on in the book, because I responded so emotionally that I wasn’t sure I could ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 12, 2004
Pros: A rollercoaster of non-fiction emotion in present tense.
Cons: I can't think of one; this book is a must-have!
Summary: There are several themes in Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes: poverty, religion, stereotypes, mass disease, and the heroic male who is to rise from the destitution of Ireland (as he perceives it). Angela's Ashes is a first-person/present-tense account (an ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 11, 2002
Pros: An extremely well-written book
Cons: The thought of extreme poverty is absolutely depressing.
Summary: I vividly remember when my mom first told me about the Pullitzer prize-winning book, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. She kept telling me that it was the best book that she has ever read, and tried to get me to start reading the book. However, 3 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 26, 2002
Pros: Touching, Eye opening, Educational, Inspiring...
Cons: May bring a tear or two to your eyes as you read on... somewhat depressing
Summary:
Pulitzer prize award winning Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes is a memoir of the author’s life. Born in the pandemonium and questionable times that was World War Two to an immigrant poverty stricken Irish Catholic family. Frank was born in Brooklyn ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 22, 2002
Pros: Written with the amazing innocence of a child
Cons: None
Summary: Oh wow ... what an amazing book.
Frank McCourt manages to transport us to his childhood in America and Ireland, for a glimpse at the confusion and innocence which confronted him in his daily existence. Rather than offer us a mature rendition ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 3, 2002
Pros: Excellent writing, very vivid, unique style.
Cons: Not many. There are parts that may be inappropriate for younger readers
Summary: Very well-written book and I can see why he got a Pulitzer. He
captures so vividly the trials of the poor Irish and brings to life
the village town of Limerick. The writing is fresh and so clearly
descriptive.
There is a ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 22, 2001
Pros: Excellently written, and inspires people to do good things with their lives.
Cons: Absolutely Nothing Wrong
Summary: Moments after my mother handed me the brownish tinged cover, I immediately memorized. The old saying “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” almost made me want to lay it back down, to collect dust in my overly endowed bookcase. Until my mother started ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 8, 2001
Pros: Excellent history of impoverished Ireland
Cons: none
Summary: This was by far the best Autobiography that I have ever read. It's smooth, easy, and addictive! I read this book in 2 days, even with 2 little children in the house! I can honestly say I did not want to put this book down. I laughed! I cried! I was ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 15, 2001
Pros: Well written, wonderful use of language, excellent retelling of his own life story.
Cons: Can get repetitive and overly thorough at points.
Summary: Frank McCourt helped countless individuals feel the love for writing for the first time as a teacher. Finally, with Angela's Ashes, his autobiography, he shares his own life and love with us. An absolutely brilliant book, the language is authentic and ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 14, 2001
Pros: Too interesting to put down
Cons: it ends
Summary: I really enjoyed reading this book. It took me a long time to pick it up, as I hate when books don't live up to the hype. This one did and more. This book can be read quickly and you won't want to read in any less than one sitting. Don't see the ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 14, 2001
Pros: Beautifully written account of Frank McCourt's coming-of-age in Limerick
Cons: Depressing
Summary: Och! What's this then? Ye mean to tell me ye've not read "Angela's Ashes," the story of the McCourt family trying to survive the River Shannon that kills, an alcoholic father, the most horrifying schoolteachers in the world, the Catholic church, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 14, 2001
Pros: Wonderful, free-flowing prose told from a child's perspective.
Cons: none
Summary: Frank McCourt probably won the Pulitzer Prize because "Angela's Ashes" shows an aspect of the human condition, poverty, from a compassionate, humorous, and brutally honest perspective. He does it all from a child's point of view which gives it a ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 10, 2001
Pros: A very intimate look at a life most of us will never experience.
Cons: Reads a little slow at times.
Summary: I started out reading this book and became somewhat bored with it. I would read a little and set it down for quite sometime before picking it up again. I thought it was slow and although it was interesting, I couldn't stay with it. Once I had read it ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 22, 2001
Pros: The story is told from the view of the child, naïve and warm, however tragic.
Cons: The Irish dialogues are sometimes hard to understand at first
Summary: I must start by saying I was impressed. Prior to reading the book, I have heard a lot of people commenting on it and how good as well as tragic it was. They were obviously right in my opinion, but they left out something important; it is funny too. I ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 22, 2001
Pros: Tells the story of a Irish poverty-stricken childhood
Cons: Depressing, repetitious
Summary: When Angela's Ashes was released in 1997 by first time author Frank McCourt it received much critical acclaim. In the printing I recently read, there was a full two pages of acclaim from such sources as the 'Times Literary Supplement' and the ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 10, 2001
Pros: captivating, holds nothing back, heart-warming, something for everyone to relate to
Cons: None
Summary: This book is not only a memoir of an incredible man but a story about life that almost everyone can relate to. Whether you are a struggling single mother who is desperately trying to survive or someone with a dream that hopes to one day conquer it. This ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 13, 2001
Pros: Good
Cons: none
Summary: In reading my last few book reviews, I realize that I have been rather negative and I think pretty arrogant in expressing myself. For that I apologize.This time I promise not to say a negative or arrogant word-or at least not very many.
I ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 25, 2001
Pros: True account of l930s Ireland. Well written,Some humour.
Cons: Repetitive . Very depressing at times
Summary: I must be perverse....I really must be. Whenever something is recommended or awarded a special prize my reactions never seem to echo those of others. Take Educating Rita for example. "It's hilarious" I was told "You'll laugh your socks off" (I don't ... read more
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ISBN13: 9780684842677. ISBN10: 068484267X. by Frank McCourt. Published by Simon & Schuster, Inc.. Edition: 96
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