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.