Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: McCourt frees you of his ordeal by splitting your sides

Life in Limerick should not be this horrific. Lying beside his dead siblings, and wanting for a cut of bread, little Frankie finds the humor about him in a story of self perseverance, and vision.You want to be able to pull Frankie from the death of the River Shannon, and bring unto your own. It is the hilarity by which McCourt helps us through it, sometimes so much so, that, we forget his personal hell. It is indeed an enlightening experience.