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A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

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Dec 27, 2009 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-on-books, audio-books, classics, read-2009, victorians, christmas-books

Bitter miser Ebenezer Scrooge is taken on a ghostly journey of self-redemption. Stars Michael Gough and Freddie Jones. Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season.

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Dec 04, 2018 Julie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fin-2018, classic-novels

It's A Christmas Carol. Hard to review because I know the tale so well even without reading it prior to now. I kept visualizing all the different movie versions I've seen. ...more

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Dec 09, 2015 Joe rated it it was amazing

Most familiar with the old Mr Magoo and other animated versions of the story. Wonderful story and of course much deeper then the animated versions. Highly recommended for this season or any.

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Dec 01, 2017 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, 1001-books, vic-lit

Charles Dickens had a brilliant facility with language. He spins lovely, funny, engaging sentences that make me wish for an ease with words like his. I love the way he tells the story. Close to the beginning of this book there was a paragraph describing Scrooge that was so vivid and clever, I laughed out loud causing my husband to question what I had heard.

This is a tale that everyone knows -- or at least has some m knowledge about. And, like most I have seen the movie. But this is the first yea ...more

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Sep 16, 2011 Amanda rated it it was amazing

There's not much to say about this book that hasn't already said by many others (and said better than I am capable of). Obviously, it's a great book. It's a classic for a reason. That said, this was my first foray into Dickens, and two things struck me about this book:

1.) I was genuninely shocked to realize that Dickens had a sense of humor! I chuckled out loud a couple of times. For some reason, I expected this to be a very serious book, and it really was not.

2.) I was also genuninely shocked b ...more

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