A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film
by Jean Shepherd
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Author: Jean ShepherdEdition: Hardcover
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Published: 2003-10-28
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Broadway
Book Reviews of A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film
Book Review: Great stories, but sound and music totally uncalled for
Summary: 3 Stars
These stories are great, and it's fun to see them all together in one production. I loved the film, "A Christmas Story", and it's interesting to see the similarities and the differences between the original stories and how they were adapted to fit the movie. However, it really wasn't necessary to add the sound to the reading. I felt like it was a cheap trick to try to get more people who saw the movie to buy this CD set, but it really detracted from the reading. I mean, I can accept that the book and the movie are different. I don't need the publishing company to add sounds that allude to the movie in order for me to be interested in the original stories!
Summary of A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film
A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana-the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film.
The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family's typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street.
This edition of A Christmas Story gathers together in one hilarious volume the gems of autobiographical humor that Jean Shepherd drew upon to create this enduring film. Here is 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"?
The pieces that comprise A Christmas Story, previously published in the larger collections In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories, coalesce in a magical fashion to become an irresistible piece of Americana, quite the equal of the film in its ability to warm the heart and tickle the funny bone.
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