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Summary: Grisham?
Review: Grisham has gone astray. But what a fun read this was. Short, sweet and hard to beat is how I'll sum it up. A little pricey for the pages, but a cute, fun story. Also, check out the novel, LUST OF THE FLESH, a compelling, gripping pageturner of love, lust, deceit, murder, mystery, suspense, romance and sex galore. A great and different type of read with a very enlightening message.
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Summary: Cool
Review: Grisham is a mesmerising storyteller. He can take a trip to mall and narrate it with gripping details. And that's what Skipping Christmas was - Grisham trying to narrate a rather banal and ambivalent series of events surrounding Christmas planning. As aptly pointed out by many reviewers here, the story leaves you with a mixed bag of feelings - should everyone give up and partake in the spending frenzy so aptly propagated by the businesses, as so lucidly illustrated in Grisham's tale, or should you do better things with that time and money, at least once in your lifetime, like the Kranks attempted. The story has many irritating and irrational gaps, which exist just to prop up the series of events (like not being able to explain the change of plans to daughter; or nosey, yet It's-a-Wonderful-Life-like neighbors). Definitely not worth being on the NYTimes list, if not for the Grisham name! I'm a big fan of his writing, and I'm hoping to have a good read in the upcoming "The Broker".
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