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4.33k reviews for:
A Christmas Carol [Illustrated]: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Charles Dickens
3.99 AVERAGE
4.33k reviews for:
A Christmas Carol [Illustrated]: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Charles Dickens
3.99 AVERAGE
Such a perfect Christmas story. Always been my fav
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
12/10/2007 I read this every year. For everyone who has depended on the movies to tell the story, they are missing out so much! This book is so much better than any movie could make it. Actually, kink of ironically, Muppet Christmas Carol is the closest to the book that I've seen because it has a narrator. So, all the great lines Dickens had are a part of it. Anyway, I love this book and think it's one everyone should read once.
12/04/2013-12/09/13 The thing that stuck out to me this year is how tender our hearts can be when we take time to remember our past. I hope to be better about reviewing my journals. Also how wounds (like Scrooge seeing his possible future) make us more sensitive to other's wounds.
12/2014 The part where Scrooge looks out and sees all the spirits of the damned whose punishment it is to want "to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever." I think it's interesting that in the Mormon church a huge part of the gospel is that we are not saved as individuals but only as a human family. I hope like Scrooge to learn to help those while I can before I am helpless to do so.
12/18/2015 So the part where Tim is dead, and Bob cried... "He couldn't help it. If he could have helped it, he and his child would have been farther apart perhaps than they were." I've read this book many time and always thought that meant that they wouldn't have been close in LIFE, but this time I realized (finally, it seems obvious now)... even death is not such a parting as not loving someone. Scrooge was just as dead as poor Marley, in relation to his fellow man. In witnessing his future bodily death, Scrooge was able to avoid his spiritual death he was already daily dying!
12/23/2016 The ghost of Christmas Present: "Will you decided what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!" It's such a good reminder when I hear so many times that we should help this certain population until we've looked after 'our own' which is so convenient because we never do anything. Perhaps it will be my New Year's resolution to help people without asking if they deserve it first
12/15/2017 I love this story!! It really helps me each year
12/23/2018 Ah, Scrooge, I love you so much. What stuck out to me this year was the way that Scrooge's redemption came purely from his changing his own behavior and choices. I'd very much assume that he still continued to be a 'man of business' after he was a changed man; that was not what changed. What changed was his behavior toward others, particularly how he regarded others. To quote Jacob-- mankind was my business! And I love the fact that Jacob got one small respite from his torment of being cursed since he went not forth in life "to go forth and witness what he cannot share but might have shared and turned to happiness." This usually applies to the poor and wretched, but Scrooge was a particular kind of poor and wretched, yet in the Spirits' eyes just as worthy of redemption. In this case, the poor soul Jacob sought to comfort was Scrooge, who didn't even know how very sad his life was, unlike the poor couple, or the Cratchets, or the boy who sang a song at the key hole.
2021 it’s been such a hard, sad year this little book never fails to soften my heart and lift my spirits.
2022 as much as i love this book, it struck me even harder this year and i cried the entire time he was with with ghost of christmas yet to come through the end. i live dear old scrooge.
12/04/2013-12/09/13 The thing that stuck out to me this year is how tender our hearts can be when we take time to remember our past. I hope to be better about reviewing my journals. Also how wounds (like Scrooge seeing his possible future) make us more sensitive to other's wounds.
12/2014 The part where Scrooge looks out and sees all the spirits of the damned whose punishment it is to want "to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever." I think it's interesting that in the Mormon church a huge part of the gospel is that we are not saved as individuals but only as a human family. I hope like Scrooge to learn to help those while I can before I am helpless to do so.
12/18/2015 So the part where Tim is dead, and Bob cried... "He couldn't help it. If he could have helped it, he and his child would have been farther apart perhaps than they were." I've read this book many time and always thought that meant that they wouldn't have been close in LIFE, but this time I realized (finally, it seems obvious now)... even death is not such a parting as not loving someone. Scrooge was just as dead as poor Marley, in relation to his fellow man. In witnessing his future bodily death, Scrooge was able to avoid his spiritual death he was already daily dying!
12/23/2016 The ghost of Christmas Present: "Will you decided what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!" It's such a good reminder when I hear so many times that we should help this certain population until we've looked after 'our own' which is so convenient because we never do anything. Perhaps it will be my New Year's resolution to help people without asking if they deserve it first
12/15/2017 I love this story!! It really helps me each year
12/23/2018 Ah, Scrooge, I love you so much. What stuck out to me this year was the way that Scrooge's redemption came purely from his changing his own behavior and choices. I'd very much assume that he still continued to be a 'man of business' after he was a changed man; that was not what changed. What changed was his behavior toward others, particularly how he regarded others. To quote Jacob-- mankind was my business! And I love the fact that Jacob got one small respite from his torment of being cursed since he went not forth in life "to go forth and witness what he cannot share but might have shared and turned to happiness." This usually applies to the poor and wretched, but Scrooge was a particular kind of poor and wretched, yet in the Spirits' eyes just as worthy of redemption. In this case, the poor soul Jacob sought to comfort was Scrooge, who didn't even know how very sad his life was, unlike the poor couple, or the Cratchets, or the boy who sang a song at the key hole.
2021 it’s been such a hard, sad year this little book never fails to soften my heart and lift my spirits.
2022 as much as i love this book, it struck me even harder this year and i cried the entire time he was with with ghost of christmas yet to come through the end. i live dear old scrooge.
Por fin me he estrenado con Charles Dickens.
El primer cuento me ha gustado bastante, que es el que todos conocemos pero la mala puntuación se debe al resto de relatos que me han parecido un tostón...
Igualmente no será mi última lectura de dicho autor.
El primer cuento me ha gustado bastante, que es el que todos conocemos pero la mala puntuación se debe al resto de relatos que me han parecido un tostón...
Igualmente no será mi última lectura de dicho autor.
One of my favorite novels by Charles Dickens and it has survived all this time, still touching our hearts, still helping us remember the joy in Christmas and in life. "God bless us everyone!"
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-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