Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens

First, I feel like I should admit that this is the only Dickens book I've ever finished. I put the blame for that squarely on the fact that I was assigned Great Expectations in the eighth grade. Public education: ruining young minds for a hundred years.

That said, while it tells the reader a good deal about Victorian Christmas traditions, this book says little about Christmas itself. In general, it sees Christmas as a time to be nice and get together with family. It's a sappy and sentimental story, and it's spawned a thousand others. For that reason alone, I don't recommend it.