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It has been years - maybe as many as 10 or 15 since I've read this classic tale. I'm now sorry I was away from it as long as I was.
First off it is not long, as Dickens goes but it packs a bunch in that short span. I can't help but see parallelisms between Scrooge and Oscar Schindler (one of my all time favorite characters). Both utterly terrible people to begin with but are transformed. Stories of redemption will always have a soft place in my heart.
I found the prose itself entertaining. The tur ...more
First off it is not long, as Dickens goes but it packs a bunch in that short span. I can't help but see parallelisms between Scrooge and Oscar Schindler (one of my all time favorite characters). Both utterly terrible people to begin with but are transformed. Stories of redemption will always have a soft place in my heart.
I found the prose itself entertaining. The tur ...more
I found it interesting some of the content that is left out in the movies they make about this book. But the book is amazing.
Jul 13, 2008
Mary Alice
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it was amazing
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Nov 04, 2008
Stacy
marked it as to-read
