Review: Of course it is better first-hand
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2013
How can you be so familiar with something and not really know it at all? I know the Christmas Carol story of course. I know it from scary old black and white, 2 channel TV when I was a child, and from Scrooge McDuck's version when my younger brother was a child, and from All Dog's go the Heaven's Christmas Carol when my boys were children.  And I now it from various other references throughout our culture.  So I was surprised to realize that it was one of the few Dickens novel's that I was need required to read in high school or College.  And just out of curiosity I downloaded it win I found a free kindle edition.  I enjoyed it so much.  No retelling of the story has the original's wonderful way with detail and description.  But of course it is those very vivid details that make it stick in your mind enough that eventually you want to reference it, or if you are a storyteller or film-maker, attempt to recreate the magic.  I really don't have anything new to say about this little book, except that it is easy to read, and hard to put down, and inspire of the moral lesson, is also just plain fun.  If you only know it second hand, treat yourself to an enjoyable story.