Skipping Christmas

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Summary: Skipping Christmas
Review: Mr. Grisham has dipped into the heart of the American psyche and created what is destined to be a future Christmas classic. Laced with wry humour and filled with genuine warmth, Skipping Christmas is a fun read.
I thoroughly enjoyed this delightful short work. and eagerly await a film treatment, as I am sure (if produced true to the writing) it will easily rival "A Christmas Story".
Congratulations, Mr. Grisham - and thanks for the holiday treat! Especially this year, I needed that.

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Summary: Good Quick Christmas read.
Review: John Grisham has been one of my favorite author's over the years. The story of this book is something that a lot of people would want to do. Skip Christmas

Luther and Nora are a typical family. Taking a lot of time to celebrate Christmas and later regretting it. Luther at times in this book seem to get a little bit out of hand with the whole idea of skipping chrismas.

Overall the best parts of the book were the Frosty parts and of couse I loved the last 50 or so pages of the book.

This was a good quick read.

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Summary: Unworthy of toilet paper.
Review: This is the most meandering,unimaginative,vomit inducing "novel" that I have ever been forced to endure. I say force for my goodnatured parents found a loophole for enforcing cruel and unusual punishment and it is "Skipping Christmas" by John (...) Grisham.I can denouce this book even after having read "Nothing but the Truth". It's about some whiny simp named Luther Krank who hates christmas and loves white chocalte (...). Nothing more should be said about this repetive plot and Grisham's writing style which is about as imaginative as a manuel for a dishwasher. (...)

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Summary: I'm ready for the movie
Review: This was such a humorous book that as I read it, I could just picture Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo (the Griswolds) on the big screen recreating this story!

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Summary: New Christmas Classic
Review: When I first started reading this book, I found out at once that it was a classic to be cherished forever. Unlike other John Grisham books, this one tells the story of the Kranks. After their daughter goes off to the peace core, they find it hard to have Christmas at all. They oversee the comments made by co-workers and friends, and decide to do the unthinkable. Go on a cruise. No party. No Christmas.
I totally recommend this book because it is unlike any other book I have read. It's funny, yet very realistic. This is a book that I'll read every Christmas!

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Summary: I laughed so hard I cried!
Review: I am not a big fan of Grisham books, but I loved this book. A light read that will have you laughing until the end. A good read right now!

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Summary: blah
Review: John Grishams style of writing just doesn't please me. I find his books a low trashy style of novel very popular these days. His writing style, devlopment, and sentence structure reminds me of 12 year old writer!

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Summary: A pleasure to read; great gift
Review: A nice funny little book, great for a gift. I enjoyed reading it, although the end was a little much..

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Summary: It's a Kranky Kranky Christmas
Review: Grisham assumes the role of the Grinch in this ever so delightful, very tongue in cheek little book. Before I finished the first chapter I was snickering and giggling, and I continued to do straight through to the end - and then I started it over again. An exceedingly fun bit of writing, you'll not only recognize some of the characters (caricatures?) - you might even see yourself. After The Kranks on Hemlock Lane determine they will just skip Christmas this year and go on a cruise on Christmas Day instead, they find themselves hiding behind the blinds, in the shower, or in the basement of their own home. Not only will they forgo the "burning away their paychecks" at the mall, the "mindless materialism of our culture," and the Christmas parties but they also (gasp!) decline to decorate. On Hemlock Lane, the 7' tall rooftop Frostys ("made to glow by a 200 watt bulb screwed into a cavity somewhere near Frosty's colon") announce the season from the rooftop of every home. But one. The tension builds as anonymous Frosty cards start arriving and the "coerced bribery" of the benevolent associations nearly brings them to their knees. The ending takes a twist, that I'll leave for you to find out on your own.

If this clever little book appeals to you, let me also recommend M.C. Beaton's A HIGHLAND CHRISTMAS and Maeve Binchy's THIS YEAR IT WILL BE DIFFERENT. Seriously humorous satires that I have also thoroughly enjoyed.

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Summary: disappointment
Review: the premise (peer pressure for conformity) and the gimmick used to end it seemed to be the writings of an ambitious high school student. of particular offense was the racial insult as part of the ending's gimmick. mr. grisham should apologize for this early sign of holiday greed.