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“In another Christmas story, Dale Pearson, evil developer, self-absorbed woman hater, and seemingly unredeemable curmudgeon, might be visited in the night by a series of ghosts who, by showing him bleak visions of Christmas future, past, and present, would bring about in him a change to generosity, kindness, and a general warmth toward his fellow man. But this is not that kind of Christmas story, so here, in not too many pages, someone is going to dispatch the miserable son of a bitch with a shovel. That's the spirit of Christmas yet to come in these parts. Ho, ho, ho.”
This was a fun little farce. The audiobook’s narrator had a slight touch of something charming in his voice that reminded me of the author/narrator from one of my favorite holiday movies, A Christmas Story. With that said, I was expecting a lot more…I dunno… wonder with my murder??
Even though I never knew where this weird story was taking me, it felt like some of the pieces to get there, to the Christmas miracle, was rushed. The fun and crazy characters we meet in the beginning lose their sparkle along the way. It’s like the book pans to one set of characters that I start connecting with and then the storyline scrambles elsewhere, and I’m left thinking about how said characters could’ve made the next scene better had they not been tossed to the side; with me left wondering how the predicaments we last saw them in get resolved.
Overall, I enjoyed the humor and found it refreshing from its alternative, the holiday romance paperback. I’m glad I read it, but I don’t think I’ll have the need to read it again, (like a yearly Christmas tradition) which is what I was kind of hoping to get from this read.
“In another Christmas story, Dale Pearson, evil developer, self-absorbed woman hater, and seemingly unredeemable curmudgeon, might be visited in the night by a series of ghosts who, by showing him bleak visions of Christmas future, past, and present, would bring about in him a change to generosity, kindness, and a general warmth toward his fellow man. But this is not that kind of Christmas story, so here, in not too many pages, someone is going to dispatch the miserable son of a bitch with a shovel. That's the spirit of Christmas yet to come in these parts. Ho, ho, ho.”
This was a fun little farce. The audiobook’s narrator had a slight touch of something charming in his voice that reminded me of the author/narrator from one of my favorite holiday movies, A Christmas Story. With that said, I was expecting a lot more…I dunno… wonder with my murder??
Even though I never knew where this weird story was taking me, it felt like some of the pieces to get there, to the Christmas miracle, was rushed. The fun and crazy characters we meet in the beginning lose their sparkle along the way. It’s like the book pans to one set of characters that I start connecting with and then the storyline scrambles elsewhere, and I’m left thinking about how said characters could’ve made the next scene better had they not been tossed to the side; with me left wondering how the predicaments we last saw them in get resolved.
Overall, I enjoyed the humor and found it refreshing from its alternative, the holiday romance paperback. I’m glad I read it, but I don’t think I’ll have the need to read it again, (like a yearly Christmas tradition) which is what I was kind of hoping to get from this read.