I have read this memoir five or six times. I love the way he finds moments of joy in all this suffering. Before paranoid people started taking books off library shelves, I used to read parts of this to the high school students I taught. Many went out and purchased copies of their own.

This is my second time reading this book. I so enjoyed it 20 years ago as I did now. A great story and well written. Lasting memories.

Amazing

An extremely powerful story of a young Appalachian man, from his youth through law school. Overcoming so many obstacles and injustices.

Hands down my favorite book so far. This book introduced me to reading for fun.

This book is well written and very hard to put down once you start reading. For anyone who likes a good auto biography this book is among the best you will ever read.

One of the best books ever!!! I have read it several times and watched the movie ( which is good but not as good as the book) several times. I hang on to each word and experience of its author and always find something new.

I don't understand why this is such a special book.

I first heard of Angela's Ashes when I met the granddaughter of the author, Frank McCourt. She spoke very beautifully of him and I instantly became intrigued with his book. Frank McCourt's story is set in impoverished Ireland during the mid 1930's to 1940's. It follows "Frankie" as a child into adolescence. The author does a great job of transporting you into a different time period through the eyes of a child. It was detailed so well that at times, I felt I could walk the streets of Limerick myself. Frank McCourt takes you through his life and what it felt like to be the child of an alcoholic father, hungry, poor, and disease ridden. What it was like to be raised Catholic and societies expectations. One would think this book was simply depressing, but the author made it light and added enough humor without taking anything away from the gravity of those times. I highly recommend this book to any fans of memoirs, history, and light heartedness.

I read this book once a year and envy all who haven't read it because they still have it before them. So read it. Ye might drop dead without reading it and then yeer doomed.