Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Review - A Christmas Carol

TITLE:
A Christmas Carol (audiobook)
AUTHOR: Charles Dickens
NARRATOR: Jacob Daniels
RATING: ★★★★★

Summary (from Goodreads): 'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!'

Introduction and Afterword by Joe Wheeler
To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late.

REVIEW: I listened to the audiobook version on Spotify, narrated by Jacob Daniels, and he did a magnificent job. I've watched many different movie versions of A Christmas Carol and have loved all of them, but I'd never read the book. I struggle with reading the classics, but I made a goal this year to read at least three. I've tried many times reading the physical books but have always ended up sound asleep by the end of the first chapter. So, I decided to try them in audiobook format, and that seemed to do the trick. Jacob Daniels did such an amazing job with the different character voices, and I was sucked in from the very beginning. I loved Scrooge's transformation. I will say that Dicken's had a very strange way with words, and there were many times I had to rewind certain parts to grasp what was said, but overall it's a great book, and I would recommend it to everyone.

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