Friday 15 June 2007

Too good for words (rated 5 stars)

by Frank McCourt

Sometimes a book makes me laugh. Sometimes a book makes me cry. Never before has a book done these things to me with the intesity that Frank McCourt’s classic did. And certainly never have I laughed out loud and then been close to tears within one sentence. For anyone who hasn’t read this you will not be disappointed, but if you are disappointed, I couldn’t ‘give a fiddler’s fart’.

1 comment:

andrew cupples said...

I'd give Angela's Ashes 'Meh out of 5'. Surely it's the literature equivalent of the Four Yorkshireman sketch? 'We was so poor, we had to eat gravel.' Yawn. For a good page turner, read The Shadow of the Wind.