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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
The walk through McCourt's childhood in Ireland was deeply moving, but I passionately hated his parents. I mean, I really hated them. They bothered me so much that it was almost painful to read at times.
I saw the previews for the film version--it seemed to portray McCourt's parents positively, as doing the best they could, as lovable, impoverished saints with a few problems (I can't remember if I did actually watch the movie and that's how I know this), but I just can't get past my judgment. McCourt makes a good hero, though; he's a remarkable man.
I saw the previews for the film version--it seemed to portray McCourt's parents positively, as doing the best they could, as lovable, impoverished saints with a few problems (I can't remember if I did actually watch the movie and that's how I know this), but I just can't get past my judgment. McCourt makes a good hero, though; he's a remarkable man.
"At night I lie in bed thinking about Tom Brown and his adventures at Rugby School and all the characters in P.G. Wodehouse. I can dream about the red-lipped landlord's daughter and the highwayman, and the nurses and nuns can do nothing about it. It's lovely to know the world can't interfere with the inside of your head."
"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."
"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."
As I'm writing this review now years after I read this book, I can't say I remember much of anything interesting about it. McCourt recounts his sad childhood growing up in Ireland and gives readers a window into the life of an Irish immigrant in America in the '50s.
Appeal terms: conversational-tone, favors people and descriptions over plot elements.
Appeal terms: conversational-tone, favors people and descriptions over plot elements.
emotional
inspiring
slow-paced
emotional
inspiring
sad
slow-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
sad
medium-paced
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent
Moderate: Grief
Minor: Bullying, Incest
Part of Mustich's 1000 Books to Read Before You Die 46/1000
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
One of my new favorite books of all time. Absolutely genius.
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive 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 is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."
Gran novela autobiográfica que retrata la miseria de la Irlanda colonizada.
Gran novela autobiográfica que retrata la miseria de la Irlanda colonizada.