Ever Think of Just Skipping Christmas?
Ever dreamed of just skipping Christmas? Grinch got ya down? Feeling like a Scrooge? Maybe the very thought of 'doing Christmas' and the whole Hallmark Holiday scene makes you dream of an escape hatch... like maybe you dream of booking some island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays??? You are NOT alone.
Don't give a rats a%# about Jingle Bells and ... all that Christmas season mania??? All OK and you have company. Maybe you are thinking that a traditional white Christmas and chestnuts roasting can go on someone ELSE'S fire...and so BE it!
"Skipping Christmas" by John Grisham
In the novel by John Grisham called " Skipping Christmas", Luther and Nora Krank decide to sit this Christmas out. Who hasn't at one time or another identified with that feeling? This feeling immediately connects you to the main characters in this outrageously funny book. Society pressures the Kranks have to face in their quest for a non-holiday holiday are those that we ALL face when deviating from the norm, even if they ARE magnified for the sake of funny fiction.
"Skipping Christmas" is a light-hearted Christmas tale with a sappy ending, a quick read and laugh-out-loud funny. A perfect respite from the stresses of the holidays.
HO HO NO! Why Skip Christmas?
Maybe the holiday mania and Christmas consumerism doesn't make you feel jolly.
This book is NOT your typical Grisham courtroom drama but, he DOES make a plausible argument for "Skipping Christmas" in this BAH HUMBUG novel. While this book is not about doing away with Christmas forever, it's one couple's desire to just skip it, for one year, and spend the money on a cruise instead. Why not? Their only child is gone and they are facing spending their first Christmas alone in a very long time. But skipping Christmas entirely means ... not doing anything "holiday" related at all - and while their friends and neighbors are appalled at their decision to forego the Christmas festivities, it's the END of the book where the true meaning of Christmas will really be seen in that it's not money spent nor gifts bought or Frosty's on the roof...the true meaning is in that of giving...giving of yourself. You will have a good time reading how they get to this point.
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by John Grisham
Skipping Christmas: A Novel
Amazon Price: $0.01 (as of 02/17/2012)
John Grisham turns a satirical eye on the overblown ritual of the festive holiday season, and the result is Skipping Christmas, a funny novel about the craziness and tyranny of December 25.
...and 'Skipping Christmas' on DVD is Fun!
Slightly different take, same sentiment.
Slapstick humor gets a real workout in Christmas with the Kranks. John Grisham must have gnashed his teeth over what studio-boss-turned-director Joe Roth did to his bestselling novel Skipping Christmas, because this comedy bears little or no resemblance to his book. The title characters are played by Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, who decide to skip Christmas because their daughter is in Peru with the Peace Corps. Thus begins a rabid program of enforced conformity when their neighbors (led by Dan Aykroyd) coerce the Kranks into changing their holiday attitude--a change that comes easily when the daughter announces she'll be home for Christmas after all.
Christmas with the Kranks
Imagine if a suburban lynch mob said "Have a Merry Christmas or we'll kill you," and you'll get some idea of what spending Christmas with the Kranks is really like. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiance, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever. 
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WHY this Author is Skipping Christmas
I'm no Scrooge, not really. Yet I've sometimes felt fed up with all of the overblown commercialism and stressful nonsense that rolls in at Christmas-time. Cheers to Capitalism.
Maybe YOU have a very cynical view about the 'holiday season' of madness and mania, and your view of it is something maybe more tragic than magic. If so, then maybe you'll enjoy a visit to Bah Humbug from Scrooge and Grinch.
Bottom line is...don't let the holidays get you down! Find or create your OWN way to celebrate the holidays.. Ignore the family and media HYPE about what you SHOULD do and then do whatever makes you happy and brings you JOY, even if that means "Skipping Christmas" in the traditional ways altogether. It's YOUR Christmas, after ALL!
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What do YOU think about 'Skipping Christmas' ?
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KokoTravel
Dec 13, 2010 @ 12:22 am | delete
- I'm trying to get my family to think more along the lines of time being our gift to each other.
In this day of busy schedules, we all rejoice when we make the opportunity to be together. That's my idea of Christmas... and perhaps handmade gifts will make a comeback.
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noobeegin
Dec 4, 2010 @ 2:56 pm | delete
- I have to read this book.
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mbgphoto
Jan 17, 2010 @ 9:31 pm | delete
- I've read Skipping Christmas and it's a really cute book. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
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sandyspider
Dec 8, 2009 @ 2:29 pm | delete
- I seen Christmas With the Kranks, that was a funny movie. I would love to skip Christmas with it's commercialism. Nice lens.
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BevsPaper
Nov 30, 2009 @ 7:28 pm | delete
- Love Christmas and all that goes with it! It is the giving that I love the best. I do think I would like this book because I do love to laugh. Great lens! Blessed by an Angel today.
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The critics might not favor it, but Scrooge (played by Bill Murray) definitely digs this hilarious satire of the holiday season.
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The Krank family delivers Christmas slapstick humor in spades! Based on the bestselling novel "Skipping Christmas" by John Grisham, the story follows the Krank family through what happens when one family decides to shun the holidays and play truent from all the glitz of the Christmas season. Main characters are Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, who decide to skip Christmas since their only daughter is in Peru with the Peace Corps. However their neighbors have a FIT and attempt to enforce conformity to traditional holiday mania (led by Dan Aykroyd) and to coerce the Kranks into changing their holiday attitude. Then the daughter announces she'll be home for Christmas after all, and the film takes a surprising twist. Imagine a suburban lynch mob saying something like "Have a Merry Christmas or we'll kill you," and you'll get some idea of what spending Christmas with the Kranks is really like. And by the way... the film bears only some resemblance to the novel by John Grisham.
