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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
by Charles Dickens
Yeah, I know it's a classic. Bah humbug! Way too predictable and as drab as a gray winter in London. Dickens is so fond of the plight of the street urchin, the poor, the downtrodden that it seems as though he is compelling you to feel for them and, as atonement, forgo your own selfish ways. I felt like screaming at the book, "Okay, Scrooge if you don't repent and change your ways then, I the unfortunate reader, will be forced to endure another visit from a Christmas ghost (oh, so will you.) I parallel my frustration with this story to those darn Trix commercials - couldn't those selfish kids just let the rabbit have a bowl of cereal? Couldn't Dickens just make Scrooge see the error of his ways and end this thing already?
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May 13, 2008 07:02am
Liked your review, however I really liked the book - thought it was charming!
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Predictable? Maybe...but then it HAS been around for a really long time, and has been ripped off hundreds of times, so much that it's an archetype now. Gotta consider that.
Agreed. It just exhausts me like the song the Twelve Days of Christmas and the movie Groundhog Day. Can you tell I am NOT a patient person?
I'm glad you are so sophisticated you can see right through Dickens's Scrooge story. Thank you for sharing your depth. Where would our culture be without your insight?
I'm not claiming to be sophisticated. I said I was impatient. Can I not have an unfavorable opinion without you taking umbrage?
End this thing all ready? The book is less than 100 pages. Not sure that's a valid complaint unless you're used to reading Curious George books.
What I mean by impatient is that this book is sort of like the movie Groundhog Day, the same thing just keeps repeating (the message that Scrooge is miserly over and over.) I do not understand why it matters so much that I don't care for the book.
Though I remember enjoying this book, I thought your review was well written and thought out. Isn't that what reviews are, just one persons' opinion? I'm glad we have this venue to express our opinions. I often check to see what people have written about a book before deciding to read a particular title.
