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A review by laurenjpegler
The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens
1.0
This is the final Christmas Book from the Vintage Classics Dickens at Christmas.
It sucks that I'm rating this so low, but, in all honesty, I have no idea what was going on in the story. As usual, I really liked Dickens' writing style. His descriptions are so beautiful; I specifically loved the opening and closing to the story when he was describing portrait of the man that hangs under the wreath of holly, watching over all of the characters. But the middle left me disappointed. If you asked me to summarise this, I'd have a very hard time. The summary online didn't help much either. I wanted to enjoy it because of the supernatural elements to the plot (as I thought it'd tie in well with A Christmas Carol), but I just couldn't understand what was going on and why.
Again, this wasn't a Christmas book to me. It was set around the Yuletide season, but it wasn't specifically about Christmas. The only true Christmas book from this collection is A Christmas Carol, as well as the short stories from the periodicals. So, I'm a little ugh about this collection as a whole.
It sucks that I'm rating this so low, but, in all honesty, I have no idea what was going on in the story. As usual, I really liked Dickens' writing style. His descriptions are so beautiful; I specifically loved the opening and closing to the story when he was describing portrait of the man that hangs under the wreath of holly, watching over all of the characters. But the middle left me disappointed. If you asked me to summarise this, I'd have a very hard time. The summary online didn't help much either. I wanted to enjoy it because of the supernatural elements to the plot (as I thought it'd tie in well with A Christmas Carol), but I just couldn't understand what was going on and why.
Again, this wasn't a Christmas book to me. It was set around the Yuletide season, but it wasn't specifically about Christmas. The only true Christmas book from this collection is A Christmas Carol, as well as the short stories from the periodicals. So, I'm a little ugh about this collection as a whole.