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Post by Admin Kbatz on Dec 6, 2018 20:39:07 GMT -5
I love A Christmas Carol and read it pretty much every year. Anyone else a fan?
Personally, I think it is a horror ghost story, not necessarily some uplifting holiday tale. Scrooge is scared straight!
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Post by sirotter on Jan 28, 2020 14:38:20 GMT -5
If I don't reread A Christmas Carol, I at least watch the 1951 film version with Alastair Sim every year. Sorry, Muppets, but that's the best one. He's much less a caricature of a mean old skinflint in that one, and the logical progression of the ghosts from past to present to future makes more sense than in many a version. I don't quite agree that he's scared straight, per se. The Ghost of Christmas Past shows him what he was before money took him down the wrong path, and where he went wrong, Present shows him why he is wrong, and only Future warns of where he's headed if he doesn't quit being wrong. It was written as a scathing indictment of the economic inequality of the Victorian period, and the '51 presents that aspect better than any other except maybe the Patrick Stewart version.
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Post by Admin Kbatz on Jan 29, 2020 21:31:07 GMT -5
I took part in a Live Reading of A Christmas Carol this past Christmas! It's fascinating how the story continually remains relevant. I love the Patrick Stewart version. I don't remember which one I posted reviews for at Horror Addicts, but I have a whole bunch at my general review blog I Think, Therefore I Review. ithinkthereforeireview.blogspot.com/search/label/A%20Christmas%20CarolI just watched recently The Man Who Invented Christmas, which was about Dickens writing A Christmas Carol. The book it's based on is non fiction but the fictional film of course, places Dickens in among his characters. Actually, now that I think of it, it might be my book review that's at Horror Addicts. It's a ghost story after all! I love, love Dickens but he goes way too hard with the social reforms in Hard Times. Woof.
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