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Old 04-03-07, 07:52 PM
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What's the Best Christmas Book You've Read?
I know it's a weird time to be asking this question, but what's the best Christmas book or story or novel you've ever read?
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I'll go with the obvious choice - "A Christmas Carol" by Dickens
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A Different Kind Of Christmas by Alex Haley. I also love The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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Santas Twin by Dean Koontz, The Joyous Season and A Wish for Wings that Work are my favorites.
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Tree of Cranes by Allen Say.

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"The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" by Barbara Robinson
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Oscar Hijuelos' Mr Ives' Christmas and James Joyce's The Dead (from Dubliners). Both capture the enigmatic quality of the season, the awkward balance between joy and sadness...
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Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris.

Hilarious. I read it every Christmastime.
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So far, Skipping Christmas.
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The Christmas Train by David Baldacci is well worth a read --or a re-read.
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Oops. I'm afraid I can't comment since I've written two Christmas books.
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Not really a book, but thought I'd share it anyway, since we're on the topic. From Neil Gaiman (spoilerized due to size):
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older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die.

The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories.

Once every year they forced him, sobbing and protesting, into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leave one of the dwarves' invisible gifts by its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time.

He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. His punishment was harsher.

Ho.

Ho.

Ho.
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