A Christmas Story
Pages: 131
Genre: Classics, Fiction
First Published: January 1983
Book Description (from Good Reads): Young Ralphie Parker’s shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine; his mother and father’s pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp; the unleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphie’s duel in the show with the odious bullies Scut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphie’s unstoppable campaign to get Santa—or anyone else—to give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle. Who cares that the whole adult world is telling him, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid”?
This is a short story if you can call it that or maybe a short novel it is a better description. It does definitely feel like a movie more than a book or it could be that you are so used to the idea of a movie that after so long with that it is hard to picture it as anything else.
This just so happens to be one of the rare occasions that the movie is the first option and the book the second XD
It is a very everyday life kind of thing so there is very little plot going on, it is mostly telling about the life an average family can have. They have their ups and downs both the kids and the parents, the bad neighbor; the issues are just very mundane and relatable.
Gave it 3 stars. It is very obviously something you can get through pretty quickly and it has a nice family retelling but it definitely did not blow my mind away.
The characters are not overly explored, the family, the kids from school and the teachers, there are a lot of people mentioned but no one is really explored nor do they go through any real growth.
Used it to accomplish the challenges:
- Advent Readathon.
- Read a Christmas classic.
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