Why do we complain so much
Advantages: I don't really think there are any formt his story!
Disadvantages: Why did people have live like this and how can we complain today
I have recently finished reading one of the most compelling stories that I have ever read and was truly moved to read of such heart ache and pain and to think that it is all actually true.
The sad thing is the author of this masterpiece remains strong ...
 Squidget 13.06.2001 · Read full review
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WHO ARE WE TO ARGUE
Advantages: True account of l930s Ireland and poverty
Disadvantages: Depressing. No pace. No direction
I must be perverse....I really must be. Whenever something is recommended or awarded a special prize my reactions never seem to echo those of others. Take Educating Rita for example. "It's hilarious" I was told "You'll laugh your socks off" (I don't we ...
ANNJSEC 25.04.2001 · Read full review
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I'll give ya a penny to die for Ireland
Advantages: great book, good chapter length
Disadvantages: not everyone likes it
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
Angela's Ashes is a book, and now film, of the childhood memoirs of Frank McCourt. The book won the Pulitzer Prize and has been given praise by critics all over the world.
It is the first of two books by Frank McC ...
christopherj84 03.04.2002 · Read full review
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Deepest depression
Advantages: Excellent story
Disadvantages: Very depressing
The good old days ... seen through splendid rose tinted glasses, all jumpers for goalposts and long summer evenings, the joy of the simple pleasures. Those grand old days...
This book puts that litany of lies firmly to bed in the starkest, cruellest, ...
dave27 04.08.2001 · Read full review
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Angelas ashes
Advantages: well written and very graphic
Disadvantages: it all happened
This is another film and book I have seen/read both. I have covered both really in this review as they are silmilar and both excellent and compelling, however the book goes into more detail so I tended to favour this. This is about poverty in Irel ...
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