TOOLgirl's Full Review: Frank McCourt - Tis: A Memoir
Do you remember how EXCITED you were when you found out that a prequel to Star Wars was finally coming to a big screen near you?? Well now you know how I felt when I hear that 'Tis' was finally in my local bookstore.
Ok, so maybe I wasn't quite that excited, but because "Angela's Ashes" is up there in my "best top 10 books of all time" I thought WHOO HOO!!! Here comes another one!
nope.
Actually, it wasn’t absolutely horrible. I mean the writing style that intrigued me in "Angela's" was still there, and the story was still fairly interesting, but WOW, what a let down. What stands out most for me in this book, was that it dragged. On and on and on....taking a not quite so pivotal time of his life and stretching it to fill a book.
Frank McCourt s glorious childhood memoir, Angela s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profoun...More at Buy.com
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