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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Read the Dutch version translated by Mark van Dijk.
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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Well, it's a classic... can one really rate a classic?
The story we've all probably heard or seen as a movie during our childhood, is way better as a book.
The story we've all probably heard or seen as a movie during our childhood, is way better as a book.
dark
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If you like audiobooks I recommend the one narrated by Jim Dale. His narration really brought the story to life and made me enjoy the book more than if I had read it physically.
Reread December 24, 2020: I listened to the audiobook narrated by Tim Curry while I wrapped presents. Still really enjoyed the story and think listening to it while I wrap presents will be a new tradition for me.
Reread December 24, 2020: I listened to the audiobook narrated by Tim Curry while I wrapped presents. Still really enjoyed the story and think listening to it while I wrap presents will be a new tradition for me.
The real story is 5 years later, is Scrooge really still a nice man. I doubt it, makes for a nice fluffy story for kids. Scrooge McDuck version is the best way to take in this story.
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
Ebenezer Scrooge, the embodiment of grumpiness, hates Christmastime. There is nothing profitable about being merry and nothing sensible about frolicking around "picking people's pockets". In his own words- If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!
This tale has so surely survived the test of time that it'd be hard to find someone who doesn't have at least an inkling of an idea of how the story goes. It's nearly impossible to spend a holiday season without some form of exposure to Ebenezer Scrooge or his three spirits. It has withstood numerous adaptations, from silent dramas to modern contemporary retellings.
It is a classic tale of redemption, a straightforward parable. Three spirits- the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come- take Scrooge around town on various Christmases across time. These visits imbibe in Scrooge a generosity of spirit, and convert him in one night from an extreme misanthrope to a man of great benevolence. There are poignant scenes of him revisiting his own wretched childhood and witnessing the misery of other people. Generally an unfeeling fellow, he is moved to the point that he sits down and weeps at all the anguish.
A Christmas Carol was written during a period when the British were first creating and exploring holiday traditions like caroling and Christmas trees that are still beloved today. It thus captures the zeitgeist of the Victorian Christmas revival. It's a favourite holiday read, for its descriptions of family gatherings, dancing, games, and seasonal food and drink put people in a festive humour.
However, what today is a representation of good cheer and celebration had in fact emerged from darker origins.
To battle financial difficulties that had arisen as a result of his father's spendthrift tendencies, young Dickens had to leave school and work at a dirty, rat-infested shoe-blacking factory. In 1843, he came across a government report about the appalling conditions in which women and children were forced to work long hours in factories and underground, and beheld such suffering himself at a school for street children. These experiences perfectly horrified him, perhaps more so because of its parallels with his own life. He determined to strike the "heaviest blow in his power" on behalf of the victims of the Industrial Revolution and thus, as an expression of his deep personal and societal outrage, A Christmas Carol was born.
Whatever the story behind its creation, the fact of the matter is that we were gifted with an irrevocably Dickensian work that has been warming hearts for centuries and will continue to do so for many more.
I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!
Ebenezer Scrooge, the embodiment of grumpiness, hates Christmastime. There is nothing profitable about being merry and nothing sensible about frolicking around "picking people's pockets". In his own words- If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!
This tale has so surely survived the test of time that it'd be hard to find someone who doesn't have at least an inkling of an idea of how the story goes. It's nearly impossible to spend a holiday season without some form of exposure to Ebenezer Scrooge or his three spirits. It has withstood numerous adaptations, from silent dramas to modern contemporary retellings.
It is a classic tale of redemption, a straightforward parable. Three spirits- the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come- take Scrooge around town on various Christmases across time. These visits imbibe in Scrooge a generosity of spirit, and convert him in one night from an extreme misanthrope to a man of great benevolence. There are poignant scenes of him revisiting his own wretched childhood and witnessing the misery of other people. Generally an unfeeling fellow, he is moved to the point that he sits down and weeps at all the anguish.
A Christmas Carol was written during a period when the British were first creating and exploring holiday traditions like caroling and Christmas trees that are still beloved today. It thus captures the zeitgeist of the Victorian Christmas revival. It's a favourite holiday read, for its descriptions of family gatherings, dancing, games, and seasonal food and drink put people in a festive humour.
However, what today is a representation of good cheer and celebration had in fact emerged from darker origins.
To battle financial difficulties that had arisen as a result of his father's spendthrift tendencies, young Dickens had to leave school and work at a dirty, rat-infested shoe-blacking factory. In 1843, he came across a government report about the appalling conditions in which women and children were forced to work long hours in factories and underground, and beheld such suffering himself at a school for street children. These experiences perfectly horrified him, perhaps more so because of its parallels with his own life. He determined to strike the "heaviest blow in his power" on behalf of the victims of the Industrial Revolution and thus, as an expression of his deep personal and societal outrage, A Christmas Carol was born.
Whatever the story behind its creation, the fact of the matter is that we were gifted with an irrevocably Dickensian work that has been warming hearts for centuries and will continue to do so for many more.
I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!