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A review by thepurplegiraffe
A Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Treasures by Charles Dickens
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.