tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post3314048990519786618..comments2024-03-22T10:51:23.567-05:00Comments on Faith, Fiction, Friends: ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles DickensGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-58883704865781957932015-12-10T15:42:24.381-06:002015-12-10T15:42:24.381-06:00Glynn, I really appreciate your excellent contempo...Glynn, I really appreciate your excellent contemporary review of a brilliant classic. I am in the midst of reading it over tea in the afternoons, and do every Christmastide. Dickens's descriptive language is unsurpassed, as is his exploration of the human soul. No book replaces the Gospel message. That said, God powerfully uses many authors (Christian or otherwise, though of course, Dickens was a Christian) to drive home eternal truths and spiritual lessons. Whenever I read this classic, I always feel like God is telling me I can have an umpteenth second chance. And you know, I don't necessarily care about the show, don't tell rule and the negation of descriptive adjectives. I love language, period, and Dickens was masterful in using it, bar none. And there are those who dream of a white Christmas, while I continue to dream of a Dickensian one. Oh, how I would love to be in England just about now! Hope to see you and Janet at Central sometime in Advent. I know you really do exist!<br />Merry Christmas!<br />Lynn<br />PS Have you ever read Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory? This, too, is one of my favorite Christmas classics. It's really lovely and poignant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com