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4.31k reviews for:
A Christmas Carol [Illustrated]: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Charles Dickens
3.99 AVERAGE
4.31k reviews for:
A Christmas Carol [Illustrated]: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Charles Dickens
3.99 AVERAGE
Finally read the book! This one had a nice forward about the creation of the book, its place in the Dickens anthology and how it helped create the Christmas holiday that we have come to celebrate. I’ve always loved the movie and its iterations. I’m a romantic at heart and feel that life is a choice between feeling grateful and generous or feeling needy and hoarding. A good reminder too about the times we live in now and how tough it was for most people even in the late 1800s. The English is sometimes difficult to manage but the message is timeless. I recommend that everyone read it once.
What’s not to like? Almost as good as The Muppet version.
Read and listened to Hugh Grant’s audiobook narration ⭐️
Each Christmas its Ganci Family tradition to watch the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol. This year, however, I decided to read it instead. And I found that after so many years of watching that particular movie, it was George C. Scott and the other actors that populated the story for me as I read.
I won't say much about the story itself. Everyone knows the tale - the miserly Scrooge and everyman Bob Cratchet; the magical hauntings by four ghosts, and the glowing moral lesson.
Instead I'll just note how accessible I found the writing. I always feel anxious to pick-up a Victorian novel for fear that the writing will be too dense or unfamiliar. That was definitely not the case here.
It was also pleasing, in an age of multi-part everything and increasingly long page-counts, to read such an affecting story in a brief, self-contained book.
I won't say much about the story itself. Everyone knows the tale - the miserly Scrooge and everyman Bob Cratchet; the magical hauntings by four ghosts, and the glowing moral lesson.
Instead I'll just note how accessible I found the writing. I always feel anxious to pick-up a Victorian novel for fear that the writing will be too dense or unfamiliar. That was definitely not the case here.
It was also pleasing, in an age of multi-part everything and increasingly long page-counts, to read such an affecting story in a brief, self-contained book.
I’ve seen a million film adaptations, and it struck me this year that I’ve never actually read the book. At under 100 pages it’s a fast read, and I enjoyed the prose. I’m glad I finally got around to this
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So delightful. So many important messages. There's a reason this is my favorite Christmas story--I'll be coming back to it time and time again.
"I wear the chains I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it." -Jacob Marley
"I wear the chains I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it." -Jacob Marley
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
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
"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."