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Summary: Add it to your Holiday Collection
Review: Every Christmas I read one book with a Holiday theme. This year I chose Grisham's little ornament of a book, and I am glad I did. It has all of the necessary ingredients: humor, love, gratitude, all stirred in with likeable "Grisham" characters. Invest a few hours of your time, and you will get the same feeling you got the first time you read, and understood, Dicken's holiday classic. Well, not quite but almost! Merry Christmas to all the Grisham fans out there.
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Summary: it had me at first page.
Review: I,ve been looking for a book that caught my attention and this book did that! I can hardly wait to recieve it.
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Summary: The Magic is Back!!
Review: After a few non-Grisham like efforts, the magic is back. This book really shows the crass commercialism that is so prevalent in America today. I REALLY identified with Mr. Krank, the main character. This is probably my favorite book I have read this entire year.This book is also easily read in less than 4 hours. This book would make an OUTSTANDING movie also. Try it. You'll like it.
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Summary: Boring, repetitive, just skip it!
Review: I was looking for a book that would help with the Christmas spirit outside of the material aspects we get hung up on. Maybe the end of this book does that, but the majority of the book is just plain boring. So they decide to skip Christmas. Fine. But it just drags on, and on.Best to just skip the time it takes to read this book and go for a walk in the woods and think about what Christmas means to you.
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Summary: a Capra-esque classic
Review: If Frank Capra wrote a book about Christmas, I doubt he could have done a better job than John Grisham has in his "Skipping Christmas." It is a story about many things: about family, commercialism, the pressures and joys of community, and the true meaning of Christmas. The story centers on an idea the main character, Luther Krank, has. With his daughter finally out of the nest and with the realization that he spent nine percent of his adjusted gross on Christmas the year before, Luther decides to "skip" Christmas. For Luther (and his wife Nora) "skipping Christmas" means: not presents, no tree, no buying gifts, no decorating, no office parties, and on the day after Christmas--a big fat cruise in the Caribbean. Only, Luther and Nora do not find extricating themselves from Christmas as easy as it would seem to be on the surface. The rest of the book tells of their adventures in trying to skip Christmas. And as with all great Christmas stories, the ending is wonderful. I give skipping Christmas my highest recommendation.
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Summary: Grisham at his worst!
Review: I am not a big John Grisham fan to begin with, but thought I would give this one a try because it wasn't his usual legal focus. What a waste of time and money! This book was dull, dull, dull. Grisham should definetly stick to legal writing. He has no business trying to write a "cute" Christmas story.
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Summary: A delightful read
Review: This was an excellent novella. I am not normally a Grisham fan so this was a very delightful quick read. A great book not just for the holidays but year round. If after you finished reading this and you don't appreciate the people in your life more, read it again!
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Summary: Christmas Fun
Review: Get the fire satrted, throw a few chestnuts on and read this little novella next to it. It's fun, fast and gets you into the Christmas spirit.
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Summary: A New Christmas Classic!
Review: As much fun as Skipping Christmas is to read, it's even more fun to read the second time! Knowing what happens just sharpened my enjoyment of the book's beginning. I look forward to rereading this book every Christmas. I also hope that a movie will be made of it. Luther Krank is an inspired comic character. He and his wife, Nora, will remind you of Jackie Gleason and Alice Meadows in The Honeymooners. In his younger days, Jack Lemmon would have been perfect for the part of Luther. Like all great Christmas tales, this one teaches new dimensions of the real spirit of Christmas while taking aim at the humbug that tends to grow up around the edges in our celebration of this important Christian holiday. Is Christmas just for the children? Or is it for the child in all of us? How do you know when you've had a wonderful Christmas? How can you prepare to have a better one? Reading this book will undoubtedly give you some good ideas of where old habits need to be amended, and better ways of celebrating begun.
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Summary: Skipping Christmas in Suburban USA, how hilarious!
Review: Imagine how neighbors, family and friends would react to this unheard of notion. How can this couple, the Krank's, just skip Christmas? Powered by Mr. Krank's spreadsheet analysis from last season, this couple is determined to skip all the gifts, the decorating, the tree, etc. To what lengths will their neighbors go to try and press this scrooge couple into the annual frenzy! A hilarious camaraderie ensues with characters so real, I am sure they walked out of Neighborhood USA and onto these 177 pages. The true spirit of the season, the spirit of giving and love, has the final say in Grisham's first Christmas novel. I plan to read this book every year just before the holiday frenzy begins, to remind me, I wouldnt skip the madness for anything!
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