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Title: Want to be depressed for Christmas? Read this book
Review: Yes, Virginia, it does end happily, sort of, but Skipping Christmas is smug, cynical, repetative and derivative, all wrapped up in one easy to wrap package, just like a lump of coal.The characters aren't particularly sympathetic--they aren't even truly awful like Scrooge--they just sort of whine and complain.Some of the points are good, but we already knew that, and the pseudo-redemption at the last is too little, too late. Skip this book.
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