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Pros & Cons
Pros
The audio is good, less noticeably tim curry-y than i expected. His abilities as a narrator is truly amazing. But narration is very difficult, and this isn't at all bad.
The writing of charles dickens is unbelievably beautifully written prose that gives the feel of a shakespearean play. Cockney charwoman, upper crust londoner, or any of the many evocative characters dickens brought to life.
The message of a christmas carol is that those who are generous and kind will be rewarded on earth as well as in heaven. The story teaches that the pathway to happiness is not through having less stuff and fewer indulgences, it is through practicing k... Read More
Cons
The book is a very cheap hard copy version. Cheap xeroxes and scans of much assigned books in microscopic text on cheap paper fool students into buying. The first page consists of advertising which is actually part of the book. Do not purchase this bo... Read More
The illustrations look badly photocopied. The font is large and looks juvenile. There’s only 6 illustrations in the entire book, and only 2 of them are in full color. Its an ok reasonable copy.
Image on amazon listing looks like bonded (faux) leather with a foil stamp. The cover is not embossed, but is essentially a poor quality picture of it. No attempt to glue the covers on.
Highlights
Quality
The book quality was even better than expected.
Curry just does a masterful job with the voices and he provides great tonal quality.
While the story is told as a ghost story, i believe scrooge's interactions with the three spirits were three dreams he had duri... Read More
I thought the pictures looked good from what i could see on amazon, but now that i actually got the book and went through the w... Read More
Price
This little book is well worth the price.
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I was interested the way how this author wrote this christmas carol story
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At first i thought he hated christmas because of a girlfriend that he couldn’t fall in love with truly
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Im even beginning to talk like mr
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Even a good actor can fall when it comes to narrating an entire book and providing voices for each character
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Unfortunately his voices for characters are unpleasant
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Scrooge for instance mostly sounds like a drunk fat man
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Most of his other male characters he throws out from a choked throat they sound squeezed into his nose
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But narration is very difficult and this isnt at all bad
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