Sunday, July 19, 2009

Frank McCourt, author of 'Angela's Ashes,' dies

5 comments:

Octopunk said...

Could I get a head's up on the Angela's Ashes obsession, JPX? I never knew this about you.

50PageMcGee said...

i read it when i was in new york in 1999. sad story. his brother did a funny thing when he got around to writing his memoirs. he pretty much led off with, childhood in ireland sucked, so let's just skip all of that sad shit and go straight to the funny stuff that happened when i moved here. amusing counterpoint, the two books.

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Yeah JPX, what's the deal? That was a great book about overcoming adversity and what not but since then all he did was buy a baseball team, right?

50PageMcGee said...

lol. different frank mccourt.

Johnny Sweatpants said...

oh really? well i'll be damned. So then basically all he did was depress people with his book and then remind us of our own mortality by dying. Thanks for nothing Frank!

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