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    <body><![CDATA[Welcome to A Christmas Carol: the Valentine's Day Version, a truly inspired retelling.<br/><br/>Marly has died, after a slow withering away, leaving her boyfriend Ben alone. And as most of us would probably be quick to do, Ben needs to lay blame. So he blames the world, and love, and life. Love tric...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44317400">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[High school student Ben is mourning the death of his girlfriend, Marly.  In his grief, he has changed: he is alienating his friends, he is making snide comments to other students, and he believes that &quot;love is humbug.&quot;  On the night before Valentine's Day, he is visited by Marly's ghost, w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67767058">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderful book that is engaging and engrossing. It's written intelligently framing all of the elements of the original Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to fit a modern day Valentine's Day, and Levithan admitted in the author's note that it was originally going to be a romantic comedy, bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68156658">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ben has just suffered a loss unimaginable to most teenagers - the death of his girlfriend. And now, as Valentine's Day looms and he isolates himself from the people who care about him, he is visited by Marly's ghost, who tells him to expect three spirits...<br/><br/>This is sort of a remix of &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79043059">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Reworkings of classics into YA books are pretty popular and usually well done. Levithan's retelling of <em>A Christmas Carol</em> as a Valentine's Day story is no exception. It's well written and the plot is decent enough, but the story didn't really catch me. I think part of the reason is that I've never be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41485575">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This in not a good book. I did not finish it. I was looking for a fun read after the Beirut to Jerusalem book. This is a YA short fiction called a &quot;remix of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.&quot; The book is about 16 year old Ben who has just suffered through the cancer death of his girlfri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33167458">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Ben is dealing with just about the hardest thing you can think of. His girlfriend Marly has died. A life that was once filled with love and vibrancy is now gray and meaningless.<p> When Marly and several other ghosts come back to haunt him on Valentine's Day, Ben takes a painful journey through Valentine's Days past, present, and future, and is forced to acknowledge that his current state of agony is not only distancing him from his friends but dishonoring the memory of Marly.<p> Two of children's literature's brightest stars have teamed up to provide both a compelling novel about loss and an exciting and modern twist on an enduring Dickens classic.</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[So, this is a Valentine's version of A Christmas Carol.  The premise is that the main   character, Ben, hates Valentine's Day ever since his girlfriend Marly died of canceer. It was my first time ever reading a remixed novel, so the phrases and dialogue that came directly from Dickins's original jar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14473965">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[“When you die, the heart just stops.  When she died, my heart just stopped.  I knew she was dead.  In every hour, every minute, every second since that one small gasp, I knew she was dead.  How could it be otherwise?”<br/><br/>When Marly died, so did Ben’s passion for life and love.  He foun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7668410">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love and compassion are the essence of this A CHRISTMAS CAROL retold...Valentine's Day style.  Unlike the original, Tiny Tim is not one child, rather, there is a homosexual relationship between Tiny and Tim (two individual male teen characters) in this story.  The  book is very different from Dicken...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65541909">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was soo much like the Christmas Carol. I had recently finished reading the Christmas Carol for L.A when I picked this up at the library. At times I would laugh, not because it was funny but of how similar to dickens masterpiece. I remember in our play we acted out the 20 question's scene and in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42619664">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book sounded really great, but I wasn't that into it. And I wouldn't recommend this to younger children as the main character is 16 (I think) and talks about sleeping with his old girlfriend. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Modern retelling of A Christmas Carol, except the main character is a Scrooge about Valentine's Day after a bad breakup. It's a bit indulgent, and not very engaging.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although it didn't, as a friend said, sound like typical Levithan, I read it at the right time.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[so good but so sad =( ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Ben is dealing with just about the hardest thing you can think of. His girlfriend Marly has died. A life that was once filled with love and vibrancy is now gray and meaningless.<p> When Marly and several other ghosts come back to haunt him on Valentine's Day, Ben takes a painful journey through Valentine's Days past, present, and future, and is forced to acknowledge that his current state of agony is not only distancing him from his friends but dishonoring the memory of Marly.<p> Two of children's literature's brightest stars have teamed up to provide both a compelling novel about loss and an exciting and modern twist on an enduring Dickens classic.</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a bit cheesier than I expected, but I think that was mainly due to the source material. Marly's Ghost is a reworking of A Christmas Carol. I think he could have had a little more fun with the rework, but it still carried some of the charm I've come to expect, and find, in Levithan's stories. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30202732">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[marlys ghost is a thrilling book about a boy name ben who is very sad and weighted down with hate because his girlfriend marly died of cancer. this story tells of 3 ghosts that marly sends to ben to get him to not make the memory of her so dreadeful and to move on. read this book it was pretty good ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15332749">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When Bens girlfriend, Marly, dies, he feels his life is over. What could possibly matter now when Marly is gone? So when Valentines Day approaches, it makes sense that this day that was once so meaningful to Ben leaves him feeling bitter and hollow. But then Marly shows upor at least her ghost doesalong with three others spirits. Now Ben must take a painful journey through Valentines Days past, present, and future, and what he discovers will change him forever.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[so i definitely bought this book right before valentine's day, hahaha. i thought it sounded kind of cool. it wasn't exactly what i expected, but i found it pretty fascinating and at the same time a bit boring. sooo i don't have much to say about it. (:]]></body>
    
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