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An Xmas Story
Author: Dragon
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(Added on Jan 8, 2003)
(This month 9646 readers) (Total 24490 readers) |
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Fey and Rand take a trip to the North Pole, looking for answers. |
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Average (?):  (5/10) |
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| Reviewer:
boccaccio2000g
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Jan 11, 2003 |
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Talk about a Claus-trophobic story!
From a technical point of view the writing was fine, but I have rarely seen a story with a less appealing premise. "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. Oops, check that -- Dragon just killed him. Twice. And another thing -- we'll need to change all the carols with the word 'Noel' to 'No elf'."
There was also an unforgivable error in research -- counting Rudolph, there should be nine reindeer, not eight. Truman Capote once wrote that the two greatest errors an author can make are getting the statistics wrong in a story about baseball and screwing up the reindeer in a Christmas story.
OK, I made that up. But there is an element of truth to it, don't you think?
The story did raise an interesting question: Does the term 'bi-polar disorder' mean that Santa has problems with his sexual identity?
8 for sci-fi imagination and 7 for writing style -- but I regretfully have to impose a major deduction for butchering western civilization's most treasured cultural icon. (4/10)
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| Reviewer:
WMassa
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Jan 10, 2003 |
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The plot is X-messy. Reporting principle seems to be confusion. But: The end of part one pretends to come along with the 'extreme'-classification, finally. (5/10)
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