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beatrice_k 's review for:
Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
I read this book the summer before my senior year of high school and proceeded to plagiarize the shit out of McCourt's phenomenal introduction to his memoir. You know--the:
"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."
Our personalities are shaped in those places where we've been twisted, beat, bent and survived. As far as I'm concerned, Frank McCourt is Iron Man. Beautiful story.
Oh, and for weeks I thought in an Irish brogue thanks to his writing style.
"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."
Our personalities are shaped in those places where we've been twisted, beat, bent and survived. As far as I'm concerned, Frank McCourt is Iron Man. Beautiful story.
Oh, and for weeks I thought in an Irish brogue thanks to his writing style.