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twentypastfour's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
leantonego's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Racism
Moderate: War and Alcohol
Minor: Adult/minor relationship
hgibson284's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
3.5
Felt like this was a classic I needed to read. A good, informative book. Such a sad story, but a good read. Moves quickly.
l_u_c_y_'s review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
sad
medium-paced
3.0
fbroom's review against another edition
5.0
You’ll laugh and cry listening to Frank’s voice telling his story. Frank is angry and you can’t blame him. He was born in the Depression era in Brooklyn in a poor family with an alcoholic father who moved the family back to Ireland to worse conditions. Frank questions a lot of things and he is mad at a lot of things, his dad, his mom, the church and everything.
The audible/audio version is highly recommended.
Quotes:
“The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or the Faith. Dad says they were too young to die for anything. Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Dad says, Och, Angela, puts on his cap and goes for a long walk.”
"I think my father is like the Holy Trinity with three people in him, the one in the morning with the paper, the one at night with the stories and the prayers, and then the one who does the bad thing and comes home with the smell of whiskey and wants us to die for Ireland.”
" You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
Composition for his 5th grade class on “what if jesus was born in limerick, Ireland”
""JESUS & THE WEATHER."
I don't think Jesus Who is Our Lord would have liked the weather in Limerick because it's always raining and the Shannon keeps the whole city damp. My father says the Shannon is a killer river because it killed my two brothers. When you look at pictures of Jesus He's always wandering around ancient Israel in a sheet. It never rains there and you never hear of anyone coughing or getting consumption or anything like that and no one has a job there because all they do is stand around and eat manna and shake their fists and go to crucifixions.
Anytime Jesus got hungry all He had to do was go up the road to a fig tree or an orange tree and have His fill. If He wanted a pint He could wave His hand over a big glass and there was the pint. Or He could visit Mary Magdalene and her sister, Martha, and they'd give Him His dinner no questions asked and He'd get his feet washed and dried with Mary Magdalene's hair while Martha washed the dishes, which I don't think is fair. Why should she have to wash the dishes while her sister sits out there chatting away with Our Lord? It's a good thing Jesus decided to be born Jewish in that warm place because if he was born in Limerick he'd catch the consumption and be dead in a month and there wouldn't be any Catholic Church and there wouldn't be any Communion or Confirmation and we wouldn't have to learn the catechism and write compositions about Him.
The End.”
The audible/audio version is highly recommended.
Quotes:
“The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or the Faith. Dad says they were too young to die for anything. Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Dad says, Och, Angela, puts on his cap and goes for a long walk.”
"I think my father is like the Holy Trinity with three people in him, the one in the morning with the paper, the one at night with the stories and the prayers, and then the one who does the bad thing and comes home with the smell of whiskey and wants us to die for Ireland.”
" You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
Composition for his 5th grade class on “what if jesus was born in limerick, Ireland”
""JESUS & THE WEATHER."
I don't think Jesus Who is Our Lord would have liked the weather in Limerick because it's always raining and the Shannon keeps the whole city damp. My father says the Shannon is a killer river because it killed my two brothers. When you look at pictures of Jesus He's always wandering around ancient Israel in a sheet. It never rains there and you never hear of anyone coughing or getting consumption or anything like that and no one has a job there because all they do is stand around and eat manna and shake their fists and go to crucifixions.
Anytime Jesus got hungry all He had to do was go up the road to a fig tree or an orange tree and have His fill. If He wanted a pint He could wave His hand over a big glass and there was the pint. Or He could visit Mary Magdalene and her sister, Martha, and they'd give Him His dinner no questions asked and He'd get his feet washed and dried with Mary Magdalene's hair while Martha washed the dishes, which I don't think is fair. Why should she have to wash the dishes while her sister sits out there chatting away with Our Lord? It's a good thing Jesus decided to be born Jewish in that warm place because if he was born in Limerick he'd catch the consumption and be dead in a month and there wouldn't be any Catholic Church and there wouldn't be any Communion or Confirmation and we wouldn't have to learn the catechism and write compositions about Him.
The End.”
middleagedbookworm's review against another edition
Got lost while listening to the audiobook, which I so often do. Want to pick up the physical version. Loved what I listened to.
cdhotwing's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0