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faithfaroni's review against another edition
It’s a book full of short stories. I read the one I endeavored to.
thepurplegiraffe's review against another edition
5.0
Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my knowledge, what is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
I've only read "A Christmas Carol" out of this but I do want to read the others at some point.
But oh my gosh, A Christmas Carol was incredible. I had heard that Dickens' writing style was either love-it-or-hate-it, and while I think I'm going to have to read other stories to really determine it how I feel overall, I loved it in this. His humor rolled perfectly for me, I loved the jokes he made in several scenes, oh my word. There were so many times I had to stop reading to read a passage out loud to my family because it was too funny.
This was fascinating to read, because while I've seen adaptations for years (who hasn't, right?), I'd never read the original. What was so interesting was Scrooge. I thought he was so much less than he actually was. I've always thought of him as just a cranky old man who hates Christmas for no real reason but he came over to the light side fairly quickly? Like, he was already feeling like liking Christmas by the time he left the first Spirit? Which really surprised me? I wasn't expecting it.
Overall, I really enjoyed seeing the source material for all the adaptations I've seen and I can't wait to read it again next year. 5 stars.
I've only read "A Christmas Carol" out of this but I do want to read the others at some point.
But oh my gosh, A Christmas Carol was incredible. I had heard that Dickens' writing style was either love-it-or-hate-it, and while I think I'm going to have to read other stories to really determine it how I feel overall, I loved it in this. His humor rolled perfectly for me, I loved the jokes he made in several scenes, oh my word. There were so many times I had to stop reading to read a passage out loud to my family because it was too funny.
This was fascinating to read, because while I've seen adaptations for years (who hasn't, right?), I'd never read the original. What was so interesting was Scrooge. I thought he was so much less than he actually was. I've always thought of him as just a cranky old man who hates Christmas for no real reason but he came over to the light side fairly quickly? Like, he was already feeling like liking Christmas by the time he left the first Spirit? Which really surprised me? I wasn't expecting it.
Overall, I really enjoyed seeing the source material for all the adaptations I've seen and I can't wait to read it again next year. 5 stars.
ninoreads's review against another edition
3.0
Firstly, Word Cloud Classics are such a pleasure to the eye.
But: It's a good collection of stories I maybe wouldn't read separately. There were some stories I enjoyed and some that made it hard for me to push through. But what I did love was the moral of all the stories. They still are up to date and something to keep in mind.
I wonderd though, if the language, when aimed at the broader and often poorer audience of Dickens, wasn't to elite sometimes. Since I'm no native english speaker I found some wordings difficult to understand and follow. Hence, I wondered if it maybe was the same for some people as well.
But: It's a good collection of stories I maybe wouldn't read separately. There were some stories I enjoyed and some that made it hard for me to push through. But what I did love was the moral of all the stories. They still are up to date and something to keep in mind.
I wonderd though, if the language, when aimed at the broader and often poorer audience of Dickens, wasn't to elite sometimes. Since I'm no native english speaker I found some wordings difficult to understand and follow. Hence, I wondered if it maybe was the same for some people as well.
kendallbridgete's review against another edition
Not rating this (right now) because I haven't finished it. Wanted to reread "A Christmas Carol," but I have other books I want to read this holiday season; luckily, this collection was a gift from a dear friend, so I'll be able to check out the other stories another time (maybe next year?)
ravenlily's review against another edition
5.0
I've only read the first story in this collection so far, 74 pages. The Christmas carol has so many complexities and little nuggets of Truth that I did not expect and did not know about from watching movie versions of the story. I plan on reading the other stories during the course of the next year and I will adjust my rating based upon each story.
nicolewhopickedthisbook's review
4.0
Very wordy, very long winded, but a classic all the same. Learn some very meaningful things in this book. It’s not about things, this holiday time, it’s about spending time with family and being thankful for what you have because it could always be worse.
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