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Every scene of the 1983 holiday film A Christmas Story is so thoroughly etched in my mind that I thought reading the story would be a bit of a letdown. Usually I'll read the book and skip the movie - such is not the case here - the movie finds its way into everyone's heart. "You'll shoot your eye out, kid," rings as clear as Ebeneezer Scrooge's "Bah, Humbug." Or maybe you just need to be a kid from the 50's to appreciate the pull of the Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range-model air rifle.

I picked up the little book at the local library nonetheless and am glad I did. The book focuses on three of the fifteen autobiographical essays taken from Shepherd's In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash; four actually, and the fourth scenario is the fun one because in the book it is featured as an Easter happening, and the introduction (in the book) of Delbert Bumpus and his hillbilly kin who move in next door to the Parker family is not really featured in the film. Makes one want to read more of Jean Shepherd's childhood recollections.