Genealogy Books - Angela's Ashes

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Summary: A humbling story
Comment: This is a beautifully written and humbling story. Sometimes we all need a little humbling to make
us grateful for what we have. I'm sure that this story is typical of the poverty and neglect that
others have faced, not just Irish immigrants, and partly what makes it so fascinating is that it is
true. But it is beautifully told as other reviewers have said. The movie is worth seeing too and
always brings tears to my eyes. I think this is one of those stories that helps you build your own
character just a little bit more.

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Summary: One of the best books I've read lately
Comment: This is a well written book. He makes the memories of his childhood seems so vivid. It leaves you
wanting to know more about his life. If you're looking for a good book this is one of them.

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Summary: an amazing journey
Comment: This is a very sad (and very funny at times) story told through an uplifting voice of a resilient
child. It left me with a little more faith in the human spirit. The audio book read by the author
is also very very good. You can actually hear the songs and how people talk in the story.

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Summary: My all-time favorite book!
Comment: This book has become my all-time favorite book, which is saying something since I avoided it for
years and years fearing it would be too depressing. Depressing it certainly is, but Mr. McCourt
knows how to tell a story in a way that draws you in and shuts everything else around you out until
you are lost inside the pages. I literally could not put this book down and the minute I finished
it I turned it over and read it again...then ran right out and bought and read 'Tis!
/>Mr. McCourt's candidness and wry humor about the years of hopelessness and despair captured my
heart in a way no other book has ever done. I recommend it to everyone who asks if I "know of a
good book".

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Summary: Stock your mind with an Irish childhood
Comment: One of the distinctive signs of a really, really good book, one that you can call a masterpiece, is
that it leaves you something, it leaves you enriched with a little treasure of memories and
imagination thaa remains with you forever. As one of Frank's teacher says in this book, talking
about studying in general, it "stocks your mind". What this book does, beside being a pleasant and
charming read, is exactly that: enrich your mind with all the emotions, thoughts, experiences,
fears, hopes and sensations of an irish child living his desparate but passionate childhood in the
slums of a little irish town. Along the way, it gives you the chance to reflect on the many aspects
and consequences of war, poverty, family life,alcoholism, on the hypocrisy and damage that a
religious education is often responsible for...but the real heart of this book is really in the many
emotions and memoirs that bacome a little part of you.
A friend recommended this beautiful
book to me, I recommend it to you.

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