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3.99 AVERAGE
Even while describing the trying times and situations he lived through, Frank McCourt will be sure to make you laugh.
This book is heartbreaking, but somehow McCourt weaves humor seamlessly in between stories of extreme poverty. I cried and laughed out loud, often within the same chapter. My heart ached for his mother with the loss of three children, and I was often furious with his father for being a drunk who did not provide any kind of welfare to the family. Frank's tales of endurance help you see a different side to the impoverished that most people would like to ignore, and this insight is just as relevant today as it was when he was experiencing it and when he wrote the book. I'm looking forward to reading 'Tis and Teacher Man.
I am not usually one to balk at a writer's stylistic choices if the story is well told, as this one was. However, I did not like Frank McCourt's stylistic choices. I think it's allowed that I believe this book is good, but it is not for me.
Had to read this for school. Normally wouldn't have read it, but it was interesting in some parts. Sadly it was boring in others :( Disappointed with ending and the fact there's a sequel.
Some interesting aspects, loved the Irish and the extreme Catholicism. :) Wouldn't recommened but it was ok. Unfortunatly, the chracters are annoying a lot of the time... but I guesss that's what makes them real. It's crazy to think of growing up like that!
Some interesting aspects, loved the Irish and the extreme Catholicism. :) Wouldn't recommened but it was ok. Unfortunatly, the chracters are annoying a lot of the time... but I guesss that's what makes them real. It's crazy to think of growing up like that!
emotional
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emotional
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reflective
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I read this for school so I didn't really like it but it was really sad
This is the sad story of a poor Irish family, and I mean poor. It was an interesting topic that I had some level of empathy towards being heavily Irish with an alcoholic father myself, yet I found myself quite bored by the end. After several pages in, it got old watching the family go through struggle after struggle through the first person, stream of consciousness style McCourt adopted. And it wasn't that the writing was bad, not by any means- it was just too bleh by the end despite the interesting bits. Overall, nothing to wow me but it was an interesting little read.
This book will be the MOST DEPRESSING book you will ever read.
If you have ever read The Glass Castle then this book will be your cup of tea.
Frank McCourt takes the reader on a journey. He writes this novel in the MOST optimistic light and does not dwell on the hardships he faces. So if you're looking for a woe - is - me novel, this isn't it.
*SPOILER ALERT*
His writing is a mixture of wit and innocence. It's both refreshing and aggravating. From the moment you pick this book up, you can not put it down.
Moments like the death of Angela, his sister and the move to Ireland prove that he can compell and captivate his reader. He brings one through the Rollercoaster and emphases ones reaction to a bad circumstance as oppose to the problem itself.
From the death of Angela to the move to Ireland to the AWKWARD phases of adolescent, the reader is made to feel as if they are Frank McCourt instead of an observer of McCourt.
This book makes one appreciative of life and circumstance. It makes one think of not the action but the reaction
If you have ever read The Glass Castle then this book will be your cup of tea.
Frank McCourt takes the reader on a journey. He writes this novel in the MOST optimistic light and does not dwell on the hardships he faces. So if you're looking for a woe - is - me novel, this isn't it.
*SPOILER ALERT*
His writing is a mixture of wit and innocence. It's both refreshing and aggravating. From the moment you pick this book up, you can not put it down.
Moments like the death of Angela, his sister and the move to Ireland prove that he can compell and captivate his reader. He brings one through the Rollercoaster and emphases ones reaction to a bad circumstance as oppose to the problem itself.
From the death of Angela to the move to Ireland to the AWKWARD phases of adolescent, the reader is made to feel as if they are Frank McCourt instead of an observer of McCourt.
This book makes one appreciative of life and circumstance. It makes one think of not the action but the reaction
This has sat on my shelf for years. How is it I've never read it before? It was well worth the wait. Who else could make a childhood of grinding poverty and suffocating religiosity funny and heart-wringing at the same time? You can't help feel compassion for poor Frankie and his brother, their trapped and overburdened mother, and even the alcoholic father, who seemed to be a decent man under it all. It's painful to think this was real, because it rivals the most sordid scenes in Dickens, and yet it's in the twentieth century. Read it, and let it change you!