Sunday, November 27, 2005
A Book Worth Reading
I believe that I have mentioned this book in a previous post some mont
hs back, but, since it is the "right" time of the year, I really must mention it again. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a fabulous book that desperately wants to be read by this new generation. We can watch all the lovely movies that are based on the story, and as wonderfully done as they are (my personal favorite of all those "Hollywood" renditions is "Scrooge", the Musical version, with Albert Finney), none of them really catches the wording used by Dickens. Consider the word-picture about the building in which Ebenezer Scrooge resides. "He lived in chambers which had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and have forgotten the way out again."
In order to understand fully the point that Dickens is trying to make, which fits nicely in the movie versions, but seems incomplete, one must read the book. That is my Christmas challenge for all this year. Read Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
hs back, but, since it is the "right" time of the year, I really must mention it again. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a fabulous book that desperately wants to be read by this new generation. We can watch all the lovely movies that are based on the story, and as wonderfully done as they are (my personal favorite of all those "Hollywood" renditions is "Scrooge", the Musical version, with Albert Finney), none of them really catches the wording used by Dickens. Consider the word-picture about the building in which Ebenezer Scrooge resides. "He lived in chambers which had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and have forgotten the way out again." In order to understand fully the point that Dickens is trying to make, which fits nicely in the movie versions, but seems incomplete, one must read the book. That is my Christmas challenge for all this year. Read Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
