12-22-2010, 10:16 AM | #1 |
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What are your favourite Christmas reads?
I love a Christmas Carol by Dickens - tell me yours! - http://bit.ly/fZQUiw
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12-22-2010, 10:50 AM | #2 |
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Do they have to be about XMas? My personal favorite is not about XMas in any way. Its Age of War by David Robbins.
Considered one of the most dangerous anti-West terrorist groups, the Al-Jabbar ply their lethal trade quietly and efficiently. But now, state-of-the-art intelligence and the interdiction of Mack Bolan have foiled them twice in deadly plots against America. But the hunt has just begun. On a bloody chase spanning the Middle East, the Aegean and East Africa, they remain one step ahead of Bolan, leading the warrior on a race to circumvent their most monumental act of savagery. They've got a dirty nuke and the means to get it to American soil...striaght to the nation's capital. |
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12-22-2010, 03:18 PM | #3 |
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Ummm...yeah, I think it should be Christmas related. That's the point.
Having already watched the new animated A Christmas Carol, and still having A Muppet Christmas Carol to watch tonight, I am already doubly dosed in that Christmas favorite. Instead I've just started Dickens' The Haunted Man. It was the fifth, and last, of Dickens`Christmas tales according to the back of my Modern Library edition. |
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Another Christmas story I love is "A Child's Christmas in Wales", by Dylan Thomas. Now I have to go see if I can get that on my kobo somehow... |
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12-23-2010, 01:18 AM | #5 |
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The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder is a favourite of mine
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12-23-2010, 05:56 AM | #6 |
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Blackadder Christmas Carol? Not quite suitable for the small children in the family but a great watch.
Funny that this thread came up, I coincidently finished reading A Christmas Carol earlier today, first time I have read it (and my first Dickens novel). So I will have to say overall that A Christmas Carol is my favourite christmas read (ignoring the fact that is has been my only christmas read ever ) |
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I'd say those are some good responses!
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12-23-2010, 01:37 PM | #8 |
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I'm going to have to go with Dicken's Christmas Carol as well!
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12-23-2010, 02:44 PM | #9 |
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"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry. Short, to the point, and brings a lump to my throat each time I read it.
I can't find it on here in ePub format, but it is available in Mobi and other formats. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34376 |
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I'll go Dickens as well...
"Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?" |
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I wish there was a book version of "Bad Santa"...
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12-25-2010, 07:36 PM | #14 |
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Oh, another favourite Christmas read of mine is Agatha Christie's "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding", where Hercule Poirot "gets" to spend Christmas in a country house and finds in his plum pudding- well, I won't tell you what; don't want to spoil the story.
And I'm reading "Rumpole at Christmas" right now, by John Mortimer. Good old Rumpole, and his glass (or two, or three) of Chateau Thames Embankment... |
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