Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

7 reviews

kierstratton's review

emotional medium-paced

5.0

Felt emotionally tied to this book, as after reading it my grandfather (an immigrant from Ireland) once said this was essentially his childhood. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Excrement

marnash's review against another edition

challenging sad slow-paced

3.5

I don't think I've ever really heard about poverty at this magnitude. It was really interesting reading about it from the perspective of a child (Frank). It is described so matter-of-fact, so simply and straigh forwardly, and it's gut wrenching. It was a slow read, for sure, but I didn't find myself getting to bored by it. Not a lot happens, and there isn't a lot of change in individual characters, which makes it a very realistic chronicle of the impoverished life, at least that's how it reads to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, and Xenophobia

creativerunnings's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

charmingcapybara's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Abandonment, and Alcohol

breadwitchery's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Animal death and Sexual content

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Fatphobia, Blood, Vomit, and Pregnancy

amberinbookland's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Infertility, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

natcalibooks's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Addiction