Genealogy Books - Angela's Ashes

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Summary: Angela's Ashes
Comment: Angela's Ashes is a good book for a person who likes sad stories. It's about a really poor family in
Limerick whos husband is a drunk and won't work. Their babies keep dieing and Angela is going stir
crazy. They have to keep moveing because of the fact she can not stand living in a house where she
lost her babys. Soon after she has another son.There dad moves and her oldest son eventualy moves to
America.
If you like a sad book then I really recomend that you go and get this book it will
really make you think about the less fortunate people in this world.

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Summary: common man's autobiography, a good book
Comment: Who says publishers are not interested in your life. Frank McCourt proves otherwise. The book is
very informative about the life in Irland in the age described by the author. The language is
simple, including understandable accent. The story is very touching and realistic though sometimes I
got the impression author is taking sadistic pleasure in so thoroughly describing painful
experiences.If one is successful in life past painful memories are not painful in present but they
give a triumphant feeling having conquered difficulties in life. I am sure Frank McCourt is enjoying
his success. The presentation of dialogues has been done in a very peculiar fashion - an unorthodox
way for sure. I also enjoyed a comic twist given to otherwise sad situations - kept me reading,
otherwise I would not have continued. I am looking forward to reading 'Its.'

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Summary: A great book
Comment: Frank McCourt delivers what seems to be a truthful, and at times painful story of his childhood.
Although the readers will draw various conclusions, the book is worthwhile and will draw some sort
of an opinion from the reader. A very good book, written with humour, knowledge, and more
importantly compassion.

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Summary: A book to commit suicide by...
Comment: I picked up this book with great expextations and was quickly let down. This is a is not only
depressing, but it left a bad taste in my mouth. I truly felt bad for his family, but I don't know
how anyone could give this a good review...

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Summary: This is not Maeve Binchy's Ireland
Comment: I have read a lot of Maeve Binchy novels set in Ireland, and from that gained a love and respect for
the it, but this is not Binchy's Ireland. Frank McCourts Ireland is one of poverty, disease, death,
loss, alcoholism and stringent religious ruling.
He begins the with "My parents should never have
left New York" and I think that speaks volumes about the Ireland he endured. My Grandfather grew up
during the same era in America and his family was also very poor, but next to the McCourts his
family could have been the Vanderbilts. Not only is Franks family poor in the daily necessities -
food, clothing, blankets, shoes, furniture, healthcare, etc. but there is no extended family support
the grandmother, though she does help them monetarily a few times, is the proverbial "old bat" she
is mean to the children, and terrible to her daughter. The Aunt is so bitter over her own
infertility that she can't a find an ounce of love or compassion in heart for needy nephews,
although her husband Uncle Pa Keating provides something of a male role model for young Frank and
possibly the only compassionate member of his extended family. Inside Franks immediate family though
you find a different story altogether, though you don't word for word read the brotherly love, you
can tell by his actions how much he loves each brother, and his mother, what more his alcoholic
father, who leaves them all to starve. Though Frank understands that his father is basically
worthless, you also come to understand that he loves him, and in his own way he knows that though he
is a hopeless drunk he loves them as well, from the way he never finishes a meal, leaving it for his
children to eat, to the way that he tells each child stories meant only for them. Which is why I
loved this book so much, he never tells you this is how I felt or what I saw, he tells you what as a
child was perceived and lets the reader intuit the truth. I felt a bit abandoned in the end as I
never learned what happened to the rest of the McCourt children, or Angela herself.
In all this
was a book that was rife with sorrow but also made me laugh, Franks follies are so typical of a boy
coming of age, and he is so honest in his depiction of his humiliation. I think I would like to know
Frank, he must be an interesting and wise individual.

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