This is an interesting thread! I absolutely loved Angela's Ashes (and 'Tis) by Frank mcCourt, one of my all time favorites. I have read it several times and laugh out loud and cry so much, I have to stop reading, haha. This can be a bit embarrassing during a crowded but deathly silent Tokyo morning commute, when you just can't get the tears to stop rolling or the snorts and chuckles to go away.
I also loved Gone with the Wind and cried my eyes out in the end.
Yes, you are right Astra. That is just ONE of the reasons I hate Stephen King and The Dark Tower series. he borrowed and stole characters from everywhere, even from some of his own books, making obvious references to them, even using his book names over and over and over, as a sales pitch as 'part of the story' IN the Dark Tower books for goodness sakes! At one time I stopped reading and started counting the times he mentions his OWN name in the book. 'Stephen King the famous author', the 'best seller' ' I got to about 80 in a chapter or two until stopping in disgust. And what started off as a brilliant fantasy series disintegrated into..... well... trashy horror and an autobiography (of his brilliant self saving the world and his oh so terrible accident) all hodgepodge and higgledy-piggledy thrown together and stretched out to bleed his fans of every last penny.
Sorry, just my opinion, which you can obviously totally ignore.
