This might be my shortest post ever!
For the month of December the hosts of The Classics Club have asked us to share your favorite memory of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. have you ever read it? If not, will you? Why should others read it rather than relying on the film adaptations?
Well, as I said short and simple. I haven’t read it and I don’t know if I ever will. Dickens’ and I have a rocky relationship after A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. I’m not necessarily opposed to reading it, but I don’t know if I’ll go out of my way to read it.
I will say that I LOVEDÂ The Muppet Christmas Carol from the early 1990s. I was the right age for it and I thought it was amazingly wonderful. Maybe I’ll watch that this year and it’ll inspire me to go and read the original.
I also haven’t read it, here’s a confession: I’m never read ANY Dickens yet! A few are on my classics club list, so I’ll read them soon!!
I hadn’t read any until this year and it was only because of The Classics Club. And if I hadn’t bought two books in one volume I doubt I would’ve read more than one! I will probably read A Christmas Carol at some point, but not any time soon.
I have a few I bought at a used book store for something like $1 each, so I need to open them soon!
The Muppet Christmas Carol is great! 🙂
I read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol for the first time a few years ago. The movies are a decent representation of the book. it’s a pretty short book, so if the length of Dickens’ other novels is a deterrent, don’t let it stop you from reading A Christmas Carol.
It was the length, but it was more the middle and how long the middle sections were unnecessarily.
Gotcha, I understand what you mean. But A Christmas Carol is only like 100 pages. I definitely recommend it 🙂
I listened to a Tim Curry narration of this and quite liked it. We watch the black and white Alastair Sim version every year, but it’s been ages since I saw the Muppet’s version.
Should definitely re-watch The Muppet version.
The thing with this book is that it is so well known. Even if you haven’t read it you know who Scrooge is.
It’s a good book I think, but dwarfed by it’s popularity.
Definitely. I should read it though. I thoroughly enjoyed Jekyll and Hyde and was clearly off on what was the actual story and what was Hollywood/cultural expansion.
I only read it this year. I loved it. But I already knew the story of course! 🙂
My December meme
Thanks for stopping by and for commenting! I’ve not seen the Jim Carey version, but I def need to read the original!