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But the worst offender of the last twenty years has to be the uniquely meretricious drivel that constitutes "Angela's Ashes". Dishonest at every level, slimeball McCourt managed to parlay his mawkish maunderings to commercial success, presumably because the particular assortment of rainsodden cliches hawked in the book not only dovetails beautifully with the stereotypes lodged in the brain of every American of Irish descent, but also panders to the lummoxes collective need to feel superior becau
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I am from a poor Irish family, so I think this is fantastic.
Boy Howdy, I hated this book. The writing may have had merit, but it didn't matter a lick. The grinding misery of the story was so oppressive, so unrelenting, so nonredeemable that it wore me down. Not only that, I didn't believe a lot of it. I felt that once he was on the misery train, he wanted it to be the longest misery train ever recorded and would say anything to keep it going.
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The first time I read this, I loved it, I sobbed and sobbed.
the second time I read it, meh. A bit overwrought and sort of a tall tale. Which is fine, but still, not so great the second time around.
the second time I read it, meh. A bit overwrought and sort of a tall tale. Which is fine, but still, not so great the second time around.
Because I'm a sucker for memoirs.
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Aug 05, 2007
Michael
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it was amazing
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