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Summary: Quick and Fun Holiday Read
Review: This a quick little story that you can read while standing in those long shopping lines over the holiday season. Nothing complicated, just a humourous and light tale. It's like watching a christmas movie-of-the-week on TNT.
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Summary: A Light, Pleasurable Christmas Read
Review: Having never read any of John Grisham's works, I had no idea what to expect when I picked up Skipping Christmas. I had reservations at first because I doubted that Grisham could separate himself from a writing style more appropriate for his best selling law dramas and write a light and brief Christmas piece. However, I found this book to be surprisingly enjoyable and very easy to read.
Luther Krank, the protagonist of the story, is portrayed as an Ebenezer Scrooge of the 21st century. He tallies up his family's spending from the previous Christmas and finds that $6100 of his money was drained with very few lasting benefits evident now, a year later. When Luther's daughter, a Peace Corp volunteer in Peru, informs her family that she will not be returning for Christmas, Luther sees an opportunity to evade the dreaded hustle and bustle of the holiday he despises. Luther books a 10-day cruise for him and his wife. The Kranks become targets to their incredibly jolly and spirited neighbors who pressure the couple to conform to the neighborhood standards.
Readers can laugh at the humor in the Kranks' situation and at Grisham's satire. He makes fun of the whirlwind of frenzy that settles over America every December. This novel is mean to be read for pleasure. If you are looking for well-developed plot and characters, this may not be the book for you. It is brief (I read it in one night) and light and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Skipping Christmas is a perfect story for anyone wishing to curl up by the fire and take a break from the Christmas rush.
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Summary: Cute, enjoyable, mindless entertainment
Review: Not your typical Grisham novel, but a very CUTE story. Funny and endearing and it'd never happen in real life this way, which is why we read anyway, isn't it ... to escape real life for a little while!
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Summary: Not your typical John Grisham
Review: I found this book to be mundane. I kept waiting for something exciting to happen - that's the only way I got through the entire book. Thank goodness it was short - I didn't waste a whole lot of time.
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Summary: Skipping Christmas
Review: As a gift from a Christian friend, this book made me remember all too well what the "Feast of Saturnalia" was all about for those many, many years we, too, celebrated Xmas, not knowing the TRUTH about this pagan Roman festival. The grumbles and sighs from the Krank couple, to the shunning of the neighbors, is right on the mark as far as Christian Americans and their thoughts and deeds during the Xmas "holiday" season. The "holier than thou" attitude of their neighbors reminds me of Christians around the world who have never thought to research the truth about Xmas, beginning with the fact that it was illegal to celebrate this pagan holiday in early America. It's really too bad that Grisham didn't take it one step further, and let the Krank family happily discover the truth about the timing of the Saviour's date of birth during the Feast of Tabernacles and then allow others reading the book, to know this information, too. But then, TRUTH doesn't always SELL all that well as most folks don't want to let go of what they preceive as their warm fuzzy blankets of untruth, like Xmas. It seems to prove the old saying- GO ALONG TO GET ALONG. But, then what does that say about who we're following? Man or the Creator? Grisham gave a truthful insight into how others treat neighbors/friends when you stop believing and doing what they believe and do. Just going to the mall and listening to the complaints about buying your crabby Uncle Joe a tie he will probably hate or return, should be enough to make people stop and think...what is Xmas really all about and who's idea was it?
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Summary: A Christmas Classic!
Review: I loved this story and will add it to my other holiday favorites such as The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans! Also highly recommend Shade of the Maple and The Gravel Drive by Kirk Martin. All are great Christmas gifts and will touch your heart!
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Summary: Skipping Christmas
Review: What a perfect and fun book to read just before Christmas!! I identified with the sentiments and desire to "skip" the whole crazy holiday frenzy!! Being the same age as Luther and Nora, I have recently had visions of doing exactly what they did. While reading, I decided to definitely cut back on my own choas and will not send cards this year(maybe never again). I will choose to simplify and enjoy the true spirit of the season.....family and spending time with loved ones. This book was great fun to read and had me laughing aloud often. I've not had so much fun with a book in ages. A must read for empty nesters!!
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Summary: Just typical.
Review: Luther and Nora Krank send there daughter Blair off to Peru for peace corps work a month before Christmas. Feeling sad The Kranks decide to skip Christmas this year and go on a 10 day sunshined filled cruise,scheduled to leave Christmas afternoon. All the locals of Hemlock street-except the Kranks- start the anual decoration rituals-including all roofs equiped with a 7 foot Frosty the snowman. Upon noticing the Kranks have decided to Skip Christmas the locals start harrasing the Kranks with carols, anonymous Christmas cards with were's Frosty and so on. Well without going on and giving the whole story away,I will say,the story started slow the middle was pretty funny,the ending was typical. It seems the author threw in a couple of characters for the heck of it. Who the heck was Marty and why did you include him in the story? Not bad. Quick easy read. Just typical.
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Summary: Tacky, Predictable, Unbelievable.
Review: Subject says it all.... I found myself rolling my eyes through the entire book and saying, "Give me a break." Almost stopped reading it because of how ridiculous and yet predictable it was. I was hoping the end might redeem it, but it didn't even come close. INSTEAD OF "SKIPPING CHRISTMAS", try SKIPPING THIS BOOK.
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Summary: I Loved This Book !
Review: I had a hard time putting it down. It is filled with perfect humor that everyone can relate to. John Grisham did a great job with all of the characters. I sure hope this one becomes a movie.
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