Abridged Audiobook
I loved this book. The narration was excellent! I highly recommend it.
Heartfelt with vivid descriptions
Really enjoyed this book although it probably meant more to me being of Irish heritage.
Great story. I wonder how much is actually 100% true after researching a bit. But as with all “history”, it is someone’s perspective. Thos is the author’s perceptions from childhood up.
Sad and true story of Franc McCourt, narrated by the author himself. Exquisite.
Very Good Narration
A humorously sad book. The remarks about the Presbyterians really tickled me as I was raised Presbyterian in a small and very Catholic town in south Louisiana.
While this book's content was wonderful and thorough, as a recovering Catholic, it was very difficult for me to hear how the church bullied people and threaten them. Frank was an excellent narrator and I wondered through it all how he survived and became a successful human being. Many people would have become bitter and dependent on alcohol or drugs to deal with the trauma they endured.
This is one of those books that makes you choke because you start dying laughing in the middle of a good cry, great book and narrated perfectly
One of the best, saddest, most engaging books I've read.
This book is so very sad: extreme poverty, starvation, diseases, neglect, and many dead children. The most terrible thing in these situations is the parents' neglect of their children, and their blindness and ignorance about it. Neglect that leads to many of the terrible things that happen to kids in poverty. And that leads very young children to prematurely behave and become adults, as Frank was already at the age of 5 or even earlier. So sad, so painful. The book is bleak, but what can you expect when the kids are dirty, dressed in filthy rags, starving, barely have a shack for a house, a father that drinks his weekly salary (when he has a job!), and diseases that are overlooked by neglecting parents and get sever sometimes to the death of infants. There is also some black humor in this book, and it is funny although depressing. And of course, whomever loves this book should also read The Glass Castle.
I went through a variety of emotions from laughter to anger to sadness. This has been the best read of my life thus far.
A terrible life, redeemed by human tenacity. His reading makes it unforgettable.
This is the third time I've listened to this memoir and I have read it twice. 'Nuff said.