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<blockquote data-quote="TerryJ2" data-source="post: 233605" data-attributes="member: 3419"><p>Nomad, BLINK was a fun book. Great validation. I was glad my husband read it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>I have only read bits and pieces of ANGELA'S ASHES and need to read the whole thing.</p><p>Similar to the way I feel about Augusten Burrroughs, I have problems with-brothers Frank and Malachy ... I had to force myself to finish A MONK SWIMMING because I'd promised to read it for book club. I just found it hard to stomach the deliberately crude, evil way that Malachy manipulated and discarded people. He was suppose to be writing dark humor and I think I smiled once in the book, and was nauseated through most of it. He was not "the loveable little Malachy I read about in Angela's Ashes" as one reviewer put it, but a complete jerk. I disagree with-the same reviewer that "The book lovingly recounts McCourt's many (VERY MANY) drunken rampages" because there's nothing loving about it.</p><p>But at least the reviewer says that it was sickening. </p><p> </p><p>Whew. Back to poetry ... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryJ2, post: 233605, member: 3419"] Nomad, BLINK was a fun book. Great validation. I was glad my husband read it. :) I have only read bits and pieces of ANGELA'S ASHES and need to read the whole thing. Similar to the way I feel about Augusten Burrroughs, I have problems with-brothers Frank and Malachy ... I had to force myself to finish A MONK SWIMMING because I'd promised to read it for book club. I just found it hard to stomach the deliberately crude, evil way that Malachy manipulated and discarded people. He was suppose to be writing dark humor and I think I smiled once in the book, and was nauseated through most of it. He was not "the loveable little Malachy I read about in Angela's Ashes" as one reviewer put it, but a complete jerk. I disagree with-the same reviewer that "The book lovingly recounts McCourt's many (VERY MANY) drunken rampages" because there's nothing loving about it. But at least the reviewer says that it was sickening. Whew. Back to poetry ... :) [/QUOTE]
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