Some advice, Nuala - Get some Prozac!
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This memoir was deeply unsatisfying. While I like the way she writes and crafts words, I found her to be uninspiring and pretentious, to say the least.
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Never quite got to the point in revealing what's her message
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Very hard reading and trying to relate to all the many men in her life, There were so many and only brief information on them all. Also, she never seems to share any in-depth feelings about herself and what she learned or discoverd through her journeys. Her book reads like a long boring recital.
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McCort did in better in Angela's Ashes
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I wanted to like this book but found it depressing and uninsightful. Angela's Ashes is the best of this genre. Her newspaper columns must be better. I had to force myself to finish it.
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A thoroughly depressing, pretentious book.
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Given the cover recommendation by Frank McCourt, I was prepared to enjoy this autobiography. Yet, several pages into it I put it down and wasn't sure if I could start it again. I was determined to get through the book and finally managed to read it from cover to cover. Why, I don't know. Nuala O'Faolain is pretentious, obtuse and depressing. Pretentious in the continual references to her "famous" friends and lovers, obtuse in her literary references (many in Irish which she doesn't bother to at least paraphrase so those of us not fluent in this language can at least make an attempt to understand what point she is trying to make) and depressing in leading us through her love life, much of it conducted in an alcoholic stupor. Angela's Ashes illustrated an impoverished Irish childhood with clarity and a degree of humor. Nuala O'Faolain's impoverished Irish early adulthood made me want to through her bok through the window.
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An honest and deeply moving memoir
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My sister lent me this book and I found it a wonderful read. I did not want the book to end. Her search for love and her looking at that search in such honest ways has made me feel that solitude is a common human experience even though we may not talk from it all that much. I am so grateful to Ms. O'Faolain for writing from her heart and sharing it with so many.
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