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Summary: Wonderfully clever
Review: As you can probably tell, this book is totally different from John Grisham's previous novels. It is excellent! I thoroughly enjoyed it - just as much as I have enjoyed his other books. Mr. Grisham proved that he can make a positive contribution to another genre!!!Granted, you will not find 'Skipping Christmas' to be terribly profound, but you will get some good laughs and a few hours of rewarding entertainment. This story is about a couple that decide not to do Christmas this year. They decide they will go on a cruise instead. The story chronicles the couple's frustration of not exactly being allowed to be different and the frustration of their neighbors as they try to understand this strangeness and try to make them change their minds! The ending is terrific and quite funny. Mr. Grisham has given us a very clever and witty story, though it does make you think on certain things (such as, why do the neighbors and townfolk feel they have the right to make this couple feel 'wrong' for choosing not to celebrate Christmas!?) In summary, an absolutely clever and quick book ... I recommend reading it!
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Summary: For me it was more like a comedy...
Review: but still good. Makes you feel desperate when you get into it. Easy to read in two days the most. It all depends of what Christmas means to you...
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Summary: funny
Review: This book was a light/quick read! It was a bit repetitive but that helped set up the zinger to come. This book should have someone write a screenplay staring Steve Martin and Diane Keaton.... you can just imagine them in the two lead roles asyou read this funny novel. enjoy!
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Summary: Let your heart be light!
Review: Fix yourself a cup of hot chocolate, sit in your favorite reading chair, and spread a warm blanket over your lap. This is a perfect read to help you get through the frantics of the holidays or to deal with those post holiday letdowns. You will chuckle and, no doubt, relate to our main character as he steps into frozen puddles, gets trapped in traffic, deals with cranky cashiers and faces the realities of our overly expensive and crazy Christmas traditions. We've all thought about "Skipping Christmas" haven't we? But in the end, we face the madness and joy of it all for our family -- and sometimes even for the friends we never really knew we had.
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Summary: wow can anyone take this seriously
Review: This book is blad crud from an author who makes basic stories and djue to some trick of anture sells his stuff to movie houses.
They are all bland and this is no different. He wrote about a law firm that kills lawyers to make more money woo-de-doo
There is nothing intellectual abouth this book. The only thing I can relate it to is some kind of political statemetn that america is a christian run tyrrany of some sort and christmas exemplifies this and other religons are mad because the couuntry shuts down to celebrate. I reccomend get more presents than even adn leave this boring author by the wayside. I wish they had negative stars. -5 stars!
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Summary: A Christmas Classic (Modern)
Review: I purchased the audio book to listen while I drive to work on slick, snow covered roads. It was a refreshing break from the fears of the past several days and the tragedy in the United States. Luther Crank made me laugh non-stop the last ten chapters. It ended wonderfully. It is not what we get (or give) ourselves for Christmas that matters, or even what we give others, but how we give it. Thanks John!
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Summary: Wait for the paperback!
Review: This book was an easy read (2 hours), but not worthy of John Grisham. Don't buy the hardcover - wait for the paperback, or better still, borrow it from the library. It's not one you will keep on your shelves and re-read.
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Summary: Christmas Woes
Review: This book is an easy read that pokes fun of the absurdity of the materialism of Christmas. It was absolutely hysterical and a different "type" of writing for John Grisham. He can write more than lawyer books! A must read!
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Summary: Not Grisham's Best, but Still Great!
Review: I have to say that when I procured this book I had to look at the cover twice to reassure myself that John Grisham had written it. Why? Two reasons, quite simply: (1) its brevity, (2) the blatantly interwoven satire and humor. Regardless of the number of differences from the "normal/average" Grisham novel, the book was an easy read (a couple of hours at the most) and an enjoyable one. The book takes an honest look at all of the nonsense we engage in at Christmastime. Unlike some reviewers who have dubbed this a "Bah, Humbug!" book, I received it quite oppositely.
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Summary: Also Not Impressed
Review: I agree with Susan from Florida. This book is pretty lame. I thoroughly enjoyed Grisham's legal thrillers, and have read all that he's written. But the writing in this one is not up to par.
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