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AmyBouquine reviewed A Christmas carol in prose by Charles Dickens

Très belle lecture

4 stars

Je trouve que ce livre est très intéressant à lire. J'ai voulu le lire parce que j'aime beaucoup l'idée des trois esprits de Noël qui viennent en aide à une personne et cette lecture ne m'a absolument pas déçu. Ce roman pousse le lecteur à avoir une réflexion sur plusieurs sujets, que ce soit sur les conséquences que peuvent avoir nos actions, mais aussi sur le fait que ne pas faire de mal ne veut pas dire que ce que l'on fait est bien. Il nous pousse également à avoir une réflexion sur la différence de classe et surtout notre vision des classes "inférieure" aux nôtres. Les sujets abordés par ce roman peuvent nous toucher encore aujourd'hui.

frogplate@ramblingreaders.org reviewed A Christmas Carol in Prose: A Ghost Story of Christmas (Charles Dickens) by Charles Dickens

Essential Christmas reading

5 stars

In my teenage years, I loved to explore second-hand bookshops with their seemingly random piles of previously loved books making it hard to squeeze between the overloaded bookcases. One winter, I bought a 1902 edition of "The Pickwick Papers" in two pocket-sized volumes. It was my introduction to Dickens, and I loved the crisp, browned pages and old-fashioned fonts, the humour, and the author's fantastic powers of description.

"The Pickwick Papers" firmly cemented the idea that Dickens was Christmas into my brain, and books like "Great Expectations" and "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" only reinforced the sentiment. I don't know when I first read "A Christmas Carol", but it was many decades ago, and I've basked in its glories most years since. It's my favourite of Dicken's Christmas ghost tales and an essential part of my festivities.

The most impressive aspect of this book is the imagery. Dickens's descriptions of …

In my teenage years, I loved to explore second-hand bookshops with their seemingly random piles of previously loved books making it hard to squeeze between the overloaded bookcases. One winter, I bought a 1902 edition of "The Pickwick Papers" in two pocket-sized volumes. It was my introduction to Dickens, and I loved the crisp, browned pages and old-fashioned fonts, the humour, and the author's fantastic powers of description.

"The Pickwick Papers" firmly cemented the idea that Dickens was Christmas into my brain, and books like "Great Expectations" and "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" only reinforced the sentiment. I don't know when I first read "A Christmas Carol", but it was many decades ago, and I've basked in its glories most years since. It's my favourite of Dicken's Christmas ghost tales and an essential part of my festivities.

The most impressive aspect of this book is the imagery. Dickens's descriptions of a door knocker morphing into Marley's face, ghosts sweeping through the air trailing chains of safes and strong boxes, or the flight across a roaring sea are incredible achievements of imagination. It is easy to be blasé with our experience of computer graphics and sophisticated special effects, but Dickens's imagery is simply stunning.

Recommended to be read at Christmas... slowly... by candlelight... with a glass of Edradour 10-year-old at close hand.

Eivind (like the Terrible)

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Dec. 13, 2011

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Dec. 25, 2023