Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

7 reviews

sundayfever's review against another edition

3.0

dark funny reflective slow-paced

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This memoir is funny, engaging and eye opening. It does drag on, and about halfway through I started thinking the story could be told much more concisely. However, it's the author's unique writing style and it's his life story, so I can't knock it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual content, Vomit, Grief

martina96's review against another edition

3.25

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing

thebowandthebook's review against another edition

2.5

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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Classic book, but very crass and sad. Lots of depressing content and sexual content. It brought intimate views of the poverty of Ireland in a wry humour. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

creativerunnings's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

mandi4886's review against another edition

3.5

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

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Great writing and very detailed descriptions of life in poverty. I did find the ending to be a bit odd and lacking closure. I also found some of the details within this book to be unnecessary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Abandonment, War

Minor: Confinement, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Toxic friendship

breadwitchery's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual content

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Fatphobia, Blood, Vomit, Pregnancy

minimarie's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

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Frank McCourt use of tragic humor in this book is brilliant, I’ve never in my life thought a book could make me want to cry, laugh, and be so angry. This book is truly makes you feel so many emotions while reading it. I wasn’t a big fan of biographies before read this book, this book made me love reading biographies that tell the struggles of many people up bring with a lighthearted twist to it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Bullying, Incest

child death from illness; this spoken about a lot in this book as he had multiple siblings pass in their adolescent years. Child abuse; it’s more neglect, as they treat him differently from the rest of his siblings. Incest; in the book it mentions that his mother is being sexual assaulted (?) by his uncle. Grief; there is different type of way each person in the book griefs especially depending on which person passes on.