tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9005065286385049850.post1719185506254653161..comments2024-03-27T16:43:39.892-05:00Comments on A Good Story is Hard to Find: Good Story 149: A Christmas CarolJulie D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08384291674560438678noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9005065286385049850.post-66199212509469237412017-01-03T09:11:20.158-06:002017-01-03T09:11:20.158-06:00Request noted (with pleasure)! :-)
I agree each b...Request noted (with pleasure)! :-)<br /><br />I agree each book has enough info for separate discussions, which is how I'd propose we do it. Maybe if we do one a year ... but I definitely feel, however we do it, that the trilogy is in our future! I don't think that SFFaudio has done it.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11368767968953817531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9005065286385049850.post-29540425938712357802017-01-02T17:44:59.717-06:002017-01-02T17:44:59.717-06:00*Please* do discuss the Space Trilogy in an episod...*Please* do discuss the Space Trilogy in an episode sometime! It's been a beloved series of mine since childhood, when an elder sibling started reading the first book with me (and which I've re-read multiple times since). It's very different from the CS Lewis that most readers usually know, but still fantastic. Each book has enough material for an entire episode - especially <i>That JoAnnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01904747145698764494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9005065286385049850.post-56825652318437601552016-12-29T10:15:19.996-06:002016-12-29T10:15:19.996-06:00I'm another vote for Alastair Sim as the defin...I'm another vote for Alastair Sim as the definitive Scrooge. No one expresses the change in outlook as well as he does. His hopeful, joyful Scrooge is just as believable as his miserly, miserable Scrooge.KathiShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15589475536932310224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9005065286385049850.post-64430564658520830152016-12-28T19:31:02.651-06:002016-12-28T19:31:02.651-06:00Fascinating as always, Jeff! Thanks for all this,...Fascinating as always, Jeff! Thanks for all this, and Merry Christmas to you!<br /><br />Keith Richards. Who'd'a'thunkit? How wonderful is that?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9005065286385049850.post-66511115943738307502016-12-28T15:15:14.742-06:002016-12-28T15:15:14.742-06:00I'm now much fonder of Keith Richards than I w...I'm now much fonder of Keith Richards than I was before!<br /><br />What a great reason for you to pick up David Copperfield. I need to watch that version of the movie!Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11368767968953817531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9005065286385049850.post-64504848668488227782016-12-28T15:14:16.220-06:002016-12-28T15:14:16.220-06:00I really love that insight into how A Christmas Ca...I really love that insight into how A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life are like mirror images of each other, precisely because Scrooge and George Bailey are mirror images. Fascinating!<br /><br />That's an interesting idea about the element of terror also. I'm going to think about that one. It feels right, especially considering what you say about suddenly seeing one's Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11368767968953817531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9005065286385049850.post-81446464591628397022016-12-28T12:33:58.744-06:002016-12-28T12:33:58.744-06:00Oh by the way the first Dickens novel I read was &...Oh by the way the first Dickens novel I read was "David Copperfield". The reason I choose this one was because W.C. Fields was in the movie version. I am a huge W.C. Fields fan since a kid and have even done stage impersonations of him. His playing of Mr. Micawber in the film was pitch perfect. I loved this character and his "If anything turns up." Apparently the character Jeff Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03892529674664589034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9005065286385049850.post-80656162339687589142016-12-28T12:24:46.584-06:002016-12-28T12:24:46.584-06:00Recently I heard Rod Bennett saying that all of th...Recently I heard Rod Bennett saying that all of the great Christmas stories have an element of terror. I so love insights like this that make you think. This is certainly true of a Christmas Carol and today being the Feast of the Holy Innocents also true for the original Christmas story. Again true for "It's a wonderful life".<br /><br />So I was pondering why an element of terror Jeff Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03892529674664589034noreply@blogger.com