Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt Summary and Reviews
|
List Price: Our Price: $6.82 You Save: $7.18 (51%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $2.20 (click here) Category: Book See more book details and other editions |
|---|
Book Reviews of Angela's Ashes
Book Review: Irish Kiss The Blarney Stone for good reason!! Great Story!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
A great read of mind candy and truth. Mr McCourt has great courage in telling all of the embarasing and private moments of his adolescence. The same types of things that happened to many of us but we'll never disclose.
READ THIS BOOK. I could not put it down and read it in one evening and then went out and bought the 2 sequals Tis and Teacher Man and could not put them down either.
Book Review: It was downhill after the first few pages...
Summary: 2 Stars
After hearing so many positive things about the book and putting off reading it, I decided to read it several years after its publication and subsequent movie release. Not having seen the movie yet, I was particularly curious about the book.
I was miserable but nonetheless captivated for the first third of the book. The details and imagery were very poignant even though the style of prose (e.g. very little use of punctuation or dialogue indicators) was a bit difficult to get used to. There were several moments when I was moved quite nearly to tears with sympathy.
However, shortly thereafter, I began to get weary of the story and noticed that it did not seem to be going anywhere. Furthermore, the older he got, the more I found myself disliking the narrator. By the end, his endless ramblings about masturbation marathons and worse finally convinced me that I may finish the book but I certainly wasn't going to like it.
I would not recommend this book.
Book Review: My favorite!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've read this book several times. I ended up losing it during a move, so I bought another copy. Frank McCourt is my favorite author. I highly recommend this book.Book Review: Not as amazing as made out to be.
Summary: 2 Stars
I was required to read this book for a school projet, and I took my teachers advice and came to the book with an open mind and high expectations based upon his praise. The first chapters are interesting and fun, as you feel for the character and his life struggles. But as time trudges on, I began to realise that this book was written by either a mentally challanged person or someone who is just plain dumb. While the lack of conventional grammar and punctuation is sometimes regarded as 'genious' I found it annoying and childish. I heard in his other book he became an English teacher? I hope not. That's embarrasing to be an English teacher and write like that.
Call me what you will for insulting one of the 'best written books of our century', as my English professor called it, but I found it childish, immature, and highly unbelievable from the point of a allegeded memior.
Book Review: Overrated
Summary: 1 Stars
I wonder about the reliability of his memoirs. The Irish are great storytellers--my dad once told me that Ireland produces the best storytellers. However, this memoir is nothing but a revisitation of the same themes: Religion, Drinking, Sex, Poverty and then the kid grows up. I felt like I had already read this book while reading it. I don't believe it deserves a place on the classics of Memoirs. Read a Tree Grows in Brooklyn ahead of this.