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Summary: Superbly read, classic story
Review: Patrick Stewart makes this story come alive in a way few people could. The humor, warmth, and excitement of Dickens' holiday story, read with such skill, kept us spellbound. This is an abridged version, but you don't feel like you've missed anything. Stewart reads the characters' voices with great humor and variety, and even makes great vocal sound effects.Highly recommended for those long car-trips to see family during the holidays. It will make the miles fly by!
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Summary: A Classic!
Review: Dicken's A Christmas Carol is a classic that we often see retold every Christmas. Everyone loves it, but few people have actually read it for themselves. I always prefer reading then viewing the story because then I have to use my own imagination. I would recommend to anyone that at least once they should read the story. Dickens is a wonderful writer although a bit longwinded (He was paid by word when he wrote!).
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Summary: A Very Good Book....Especially if you like Mr. Dickens
Review: I recently read this book, and it is definetly a brilliant book. I don't rate it 5 stars, because there are lots of other books that happen to be better, but I really enjoyed it, and it will make my top 10 List, definetly. I am sure you've all heard the story of the old Scrooge, and how he is haunted by 3 ghosts: Ghost of the past Ghost of the present Ghost of the future. It is very good, and I hope that if you haven't read it, you read it soon. It's very fun, and you'll love it!
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Summary: Magically Apt
Review: Having seen the various movie versions over the years, I was pleasantly surprised at how enchanting, haunting and moving this story is. So much more exists in the story than is ever included in a film, that one finds it that much more entertaining although the story is so well known. Easily readable, but then that was Charles Dickens' style, I ploughed through it in an afternoon and reached the end before I truly expected to...
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Summary: Review should give credit where it's due.
Review: Reviewer Chris Brown writes below: "How could it be that an obscure website like The Daily Objectivist would have the most intelligent review of this book that I've ever seen?" The essay he quotes (by Michael Levin) was *reproduced* on the Daily Objectivist website. It was in fact published several years earlier on the website of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Brown seems to be doing nothing but trying to promote the Daily Objectivist website; every one of his handful of reviews begins with a quote from the site. Unfortunately (as if that weren't bad enough!), not all the quotes *are* "from" the site, as in this case.
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Summary: Sometimes Less Is More
Review: I once read that some scholars consider "Hard Times" (1854) an unimportant division of Dickens because it is less than half the length of his normal books. I don't understand how they would explain that this is by far his most popular work and yet it is only 1/8 the length of his normal books. This is a masterpiece in that it shows us the harsh reality that some people are so hardened that not even Christmas moves them. I also feel Dickens displays his best skills when he shows us that Scrooge was not always this way. Also, Scrooge starts to change when he is exposed to his present. Seeing upclose what his greedieness has done to Cratchit catches his conscience. Furthermore he realizes that many people will be delighted at his eventual death if he does not change. The messages are very profound. In addition, we are presented with striking images. Also, characters such as Jacob Marley, Fanny, Fred, and Mr. Fezziwig, and the ghosts are very convincing. Again, Dickens shows us the harsh conditions of Victorian England. Also, Dickens emphasizes that even a hardened miser CAN change. If you like this book, Dickens Christmas Book "The Cricket on the Hearth" may also interest you.
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Summary: Eyewitness Classics: A Christmas Carol
Review: What a timeless and inspired story! This book looks stunning and will be loved by everyone in your family. A MUST!
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Summary: Our hero, Ebenezer Scrooge
Review: I agree with what Micheal Levin writes at a website called The Daily Objectivist, Scrooge was better at the beginning! He says: "You know the ritual: boo the curmudgeon initially encountered in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, then cheer the sweetie pie he becomes in the end. It's too bad no one notices that the curmudgeon had a point-quite a few points, in fact. There can be no arguing with Dickens's wish to show the spiritual advantages of love. But there was no need to make the object of his lesson an entrepreneur whose ideas and practices benefit his employees, society at large, and himself. Must such a man expect no fairer a fate than to die scorned and alone? Bah, I say. Humbug." How could it be that an obscure website like The Daily Objectivist would have the most intelligent review of this book that I've ever seen?
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Summary: "A Christmas Carol "
Review: Very thrilling book. Although I have seen the movie {all of them}, I liked the book much better. It had pictures to help me understand alot better. I have read this book and a few books like it but this is my favorite Christmas classic. I liked how Dickens {writer} portrayed how bitter and selfish the main character {Scrooge} was. I really enjoyed this book I have read one of his other books. I most definately give this book what it deserves a definate 5 stars
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Summary: Very good
Review: I think this is one of the best books about Christmas. In this book Ebenezer Scrooge meets ghosts. These ghosts help to teach him about life. I would recommend this book to you.
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