Review of 'Steampunk: Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol (Steampunk Classics)' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Read brilliantly by Simon Prebble.
Hardcover
English language
Published April 2, 1995 by Baronet Books.
A Christmas Carol (Great Illustrated Classics)
Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol (Great Illustrated Classics) (1995, Baronet Books)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-681-20087-6
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4 stars
(18 reviews)
An allegorical novella descibing the rehabilitation of bitter, miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge. The reader is witness to his transformation as Scrooge is shown the error of his ways by the ghost of former partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future. The first of the Christmas books (Dickens released one a year from 1843–1847) it became an instant hit.
Lyteraria reviewed Un Cuento De Navidad by Charles Dickens
"Un Cuento De Navidad"
A Dickens le pasa como a Johnatan Swift, el autor de "Los viajes de Gulliver", buena parte de la crítica social y política de sus historias fue olvidada.
Hoy Dickens es muy actual, vivimos en una sociedad liberal en lo económico y puritana en lo moral
Me pregunto si no es evidente la asociación entre liberalismo económico, que causa pobreza y marginalidad, y puritanismo moral como un modo de control de los pobres.
Leímos "Un cuento de Navidad" en la edición número 50 de nuestro Club de #LecturaMastodóntica
mastodon.la/@SeverianX/107515391843409962 (no hay hilo)
Review of 'Steampunk: Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol (Steampunk Classics)' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Well, after all these years of seeing millions of different versions of this story (okay, a tiny exaggeration, even if it doesn't actually feel like it), I finally read, well, listened, to the actual story. It is pretty familiar, similar to the story as I've always seen, with some differences here and there with dialogue, descriptions and the like. So, the book is okay, and quick to get through. I don't know if it's because I'm so used to this story as a visual item, but I kept thinking Dickens is a little wordy. Maybe he is, maybe it's just me - kind of hard to tell.
But anyway, the version I got is narrated by Tim Curry - he's pretty good. Well, he's no Patrick Stewart, of course, but he's still pretty good, particularly with Scrooge's voice.
Review of 'Steampunk: Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol (Steampunk Classics)' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Of course I am already familiar with this book, and I was feeling festive, so I don't to it again. This is a great recording of a great book! Happy Christmas tell-all!
Ahh, yes; my annual foray into the classics of Charles Dickens and a Christmas Carol. Although I know that it being the middle of Hanukkah and my being a good Jewish girl, I should eschew classical Christmas stories like A Christmas Carol, but it's both a good story and presents a truly useful and meaningful lesson regardless of religion or holiday. I still love the book, and Tim Curry as narrator does a more than respectable job!
Yes, it was time again for my annual read of a Christmas Carol :). Of course, by “read” I meant listen, because I can't see to read anymore, although I do still actually occasionally despite the fact that it's very …
Of course I am already familiar with this book, and I was feeling festive, so I don't to it again. This is a great recording of a great book! Happy Christmas tell-all!
Ahh, yes; my annual foray into the classics of Charles Dickens and a Christmas Carol. Although I know that it being the middle of Hanukkah and my being a good Jewish girl, I should eschew classical Christmas stories like A Christmas Carol, but it's both a good story and presents a truly useful and meaningful lesson regardless of religion or holiday. I still love the book, and Tim Curry as narrator does a more than respectable job!
Yes, it was time again for my annual read of a Christmas Carol :). Of course, by “read” I meant listen, because I can't see to read anymore, although I do still actually occasionally despite the fact that it's very difficult for me. I usually listen at one and a half to two times normal speed, but I decided to slow it down this time and actually listen at speed. I don't know whether this is the reason that I noticed a lot of things that I had forgotten since my last listen. I had heard that Charles Dickens was paid by the word, and consequently he was unnecessarily wordy in his prose. I was able to recognize this time that his wordiness actually contributes to the story. He actually contributes to the characters and scenery beautifully in such a way that it kind of fills things out. I am constantly reminded why Charles Dickens is consider a writer of classics. I realize that I am not the first to discover this- his books are, after all, classics - but it's nice to remind myself occasionally.
Review of 'Steampunk: Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol (Steampunk Classics)' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I'd never read it before, and wanted to experience the original unintermediated by film. My impressions: Dickens accomplished a HELL of a lot here in only 73 pages. Today's mercilessly deconstructed authors could go back to this dense style and I wouldn't mind a bit.
What you get in the book that you don't in the movies is Dickens' evocation (not quite construction, but almost) of what we now think of as a traditional Christmas. His descriptions of the holiday as celebrated in London and in Scrooge's nephew's house have been the basis and the aspirations of the December celebrations of the entire English-speaking world ever since. Would he have been happy with how this had turned out over 100 years later? Who can say?
Review of 'Steampunk: Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol (Steampunk Classics)' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I’ve wanted to read this book for a while now, mainly to say I’ve read a Charles Dickens book and this one looked short. I did enjoy the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, it is a very famous and well known story, so i didn’t really have to focus on what was happening and instead I focused on the beauty of the writing. I see why Dickens was so famous and I will be reading some more of his work in the future.
