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benkaboo 's review for:
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Summary: A uplifting morality tale that brought a tear to my eye a couple of times and made me think about people.
Things I liked:
I think the thing I liked best was the device. The unravelling of a nasty old person into the events and experiences that ended up defining the person he was today. Combined with a glimpse of the future I think it was a great way to get any reader thinking about themselves and people that they knew in a new light.
The Cratchets, what a family they made me laugh, they made me cry. Little Tiny Tim is such a trooper.
Things I thougth could be improved: He seems to do a lot of exposition breaking the 'show don't tell principle' which actually drags me out of the story. I think I would have prefered to discover the characters organically, but with such a short book that might have been difficult.
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Things I liked:
I think the thing I liked best was the device. The unravelling of a nasty old person into the events and experiences that ended up defining the person he was today. Combined with a glimpse of the future I think it was a great way to get any reader thinking about themselves and people that they knew in a new light.
The Cratchets, what a family they made me laugh, they made me cry. Little Tiny Tim is such a trooper.
Things I thougth could be improved: He seems to do a lot of exposition breaking the 'show don't tell principle' which actually drags me out of the story. I think I would have prefered to discover the characters organically, but with such a short book that might have been difficult.
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