tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839532156339647613.post5991883820125014494..comments2016-10-23T13:01:36.904-04:00Comments on MYSTERY WRITERS UNITE: An Ode to A Christmas CarolBecky Illson-Skinnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03385266286139995349noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839532156339647613.post-29911537091899373552011-12-21T18:31:29.402-05:002011-12-21T18:31:29.402-05:00Thank you, Michael. That was an extra piece of ins...Thank you, Michael. That was an extra piece of insight even I may have missed. That's interesting, readers... can you think of any classics that may have been diluted in popular culture? (I'm looking at Jane Austen, here...)Kate Burnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024513390707053789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839532156339647613.post-90490225833202227652011-12-21T12:21:54.978-05:002011-12-21T12:21:54.978-05:00The piece on Dickens brought to mind something tha...The piece on Dickens brought to mind something that has troubled me for some time. Dickens is great literature and always will be admired as a writer and social commentator by those who read what he authored. My trouble is what happens to a tremendous piece of writing that is turned into a franchise, whereby the vast majority of people who recognize the name of Dickens, have never read a word he had written. I may be missing the mark but I do not believe the message in a Christmas Carol as written has translated well into film and other media where it is employed. Perhaps I am projecting because I grew up on Alistair Sim's Scrooge and had no idea of what the Christmas Carol was about until I read Dickens as an adult. Until that time it was a Christmas story with religous overtones and I am not sure I would have understood your post. I suspect that your post will entice some people to actually read the Dickens story who until that point had viewed it as unnecessary. Your post will have accomplished some of what it was advocating. It was an excellent essay.Michael MacDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00335308600956379855noreply@blogger.com