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A great Christmas story elicits a lingering emotional response, ultimately setting hearts ablaze with holiday cheer and gratitude.

Unfortunately, Beasley’s Christmas Party doesn’t rise to the occasion.

For starters, this is a cheap, watered-down version of A Christmas Carol. The witty, humorous lines are missing, and Tarkington doesn’t develop the characters well enough. What little character development is done is based on rushed, overused tropes.

Also, the plot is so contrived as to be laughable, and the last half of the book is entirely predictable.

The Green Light at the End of the Dock (How much I spent):
Hardcover Text � $45.78 from Abebooks (First edition, first print from 1909)
Audiobook - $84.99 per year through Everand

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