Try his books as Audiobooks. I don’t normally advocate them but in the case of McCourt’s books they are BRILLIANT. When reading Angela’s Ashes it’s possible to miss the point & just see parts as desperate, sad, etc. Yes, they are those things but they are poigniantly amusing as well, & because they are narrated by McCourt the humour really comes across. When he talks about Malachy showing his bare **** he actually cracks up laughing which adds to the character of these exceptional books.

Lovely good man

angelas ashes is a great book and i have to say the film is nearly as good as the book.

Its amazing that he gets “down in the dumps”, considering the upbringing he had.

VERY clever man, he has so much insight

Why do we honor great writers in the name of a man who was a yellow journalist?

This has GOT to be my absolute favourite book/movie of all time. Frank McCourt writes about his early childhood and poverty-stricken life in Ireland. I laughed between my tears, felt his pain and hunger and just fell completely in love with him!

beautiful peice of writting! loved the way he writes and how he can remember such details, it feels like a child is telling the story and makes you feel, this book makes you feel many emotions at the same time. i am looking forward to reading the rest of his serious i beleive the second book is ‘Tis

Put simply, he is a legend. An amazing way with language, just the way he describes things has you hanging on his every word. Rare are the people like him.

Brilliant book, one of my favorites. Just wondering – I’ve heard rumors that McCourt’s descriptions weren’t always accurate, and that he made Limerick sound poorer than it was. Does anybody know if that’s true? (Please don’t give me thumbs down, I love the book, I’m just curious)

Don’t forget that his Limerick would be very subjective. I’m sure there were affluent areas but speaking to my own Irish relatives the poverty that FM describes was not uncommon throughout Ireland during those years.