Did I Miss Something?
After reading this book following a couple of years of hype, I'm left scratching my head.I found Mr. McCourt's book a slow moving compendium of seemingly unconnected anecdotes. I'm an experienced reader of memoirs so I am familiar and comfortable with the format. Angela's Ashes recounts nothing exceptional in the three hundred and forty odd pages. But maybe that's the whole point. Maybe there's a Pulitzer lurking in all of our childhoods, most of which are as unexceptional as Mr. McCourt's.To be fair, the ending salvaged the book. I breezed rather than labored through the final forty pages. Then again, perhaps I read the final few pages quickly to bring an end to this boring book.