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A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

Start date: December 1, 2012

Finish date: December 31, 2012

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Dec 04, 2012 Lauren rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 1001-books, tbr-dec2012, 1305

I am very happy that Tale of Two Cities was my first Dickens because I think that if I had started here I would have missed some of the beautiful language trying to get at the familiar story. A Christmas Carol is a christmas classic for a reason. I just wish that I had been able to read it without automatically thinking of several of the characters as muppets.

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Nov 14, 2012 Melissa rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classic, victorian, part-of-a-challenge

I have to admit that i am not a fan of the Christmas Carol movies. Never been and really doubt that i'd ever would be. Therefore it's not really surprising that i didn't exactly like the book all the way. This was the first Dickens book i had ever read and i read it for a challenge. Needless to say i'm not exactly in a hurry to go grab his others. You can tell Dickens got paid by the page because there was a great deal of editing needed to be done. Anyways once you've seen the movie adaptions o ...more

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