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    Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For An Enlightened Yultide Season
    Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For An Enlightened Yultide Season
    Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For An Enlightened Yultide Season
    Audiobook (abridged)1 hour

    Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For An Enlightened Yultide Season

    Written by James Finn Garner

    Narrated by James Finn Garner

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    About this audiobook

    The #1 bestselling author of Once Upon a More Enlightened Time reads his Politically Correct holiday gift.
    Holiday tales have long delighted and entertained us, but until now they've always been burdened with society's skewed values and mores. Stories that reinforce the stifling class system (Dickens' A Christmas Carol), legitimize the stereotype of a merry, overweight patriarchal oppressor (Santa Claus in The Night Before Christmas) and justify the domestication and subjugation of wild animals (Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer) abound in the literature and lore of this season.
    Now James Finn Garner has stepped in to revise and improve these familiar tales to free our social consciousness from the ghost of prejudice past. From the newly revised "Twas the Night Before Solstice" to "Rudolph the Nasally Empowered Reindeer," these stories rekindle the true holiday spirit and redefine the idea of "good will to all men" to include womyn, pre-adults and companion animals as well.
    Yes, the international bestselling author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories and Once Upon a More Enlightened Time is back again, to offer a holiday gift that will fit all sizes, welcome all persuasions and nonpersuasions, and be treasured for politically correct generations to come.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateOct 1, 1995
    ISBN9780743541503
    Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For An Enlightened Yultide Season
    Author

    James Finn Garner

    James Finn Garner is a writer and satirist based in Chicago.

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    • 2/5
      This collection is okay, mildly interesting, but not all that great. I'd say the first part is a solid 2 stars, while The Christmas Carol parody is a probably a 3. That part was easily the best, even if the collection as a whole is a bit of a disappointment. It just seems like most of the stories here are one-trick ponies, without much substance, although their extreme brevity may account for that as well. The idea of being satirical isn't the foundation; it's the whole product. Scrooge's transformation in the last story was much more interesting than the characters in the other stories, perhaps because it was a longer tale with a more complete plot. I'm not sorry I read it, but I could probably take it or leave it.
    • 3/5
      This reminded me of the style of Roald Dahl but didn't quite make it. It's a good twist on the Christmas theme but in my opinion the author is trying just a little too hard to be clever.
    • 4/5
      Delightful collection of rewritten Christmas stories--the author explaining, in character, that he has modestly undertaken the "task of liberating the holidays from the oppressiveness of tradition". He dedicates the work to a campus "where mistletoe has been officially banned as a holiday decoration, because...it tends to sanctify uninvited endearment".Begins with comic versery - "Twas the Night Before Solstice...and all through the co-op, Not a creature was messing the calm status quo up." Etc.Next, a re-write of "Frosty the Persun of Snow", so as not to offend those who are snow-challenged. Then the "Nutcracker" story is revised so as not to offend serfs or pre-adults. Or the tribal mice. "Rudolph the Nasally Empowered Reindeer" is the elevated biography of that unique individual of the luminescent olfactory organ. And no, we are not spared the suffering he endured as the victim of bullying from peers, and of cruel or ignorant care-givers. Sadly, the tale ends badly.This small well-crafted book concludes with five staves of "A Christmas Carol", rewritten so as not to offend the "spiritual facilitators", or other celebrants. No Christians were harmed in the retelling of sweet Dickens' Scrooge bio.
    • 1/5
      I was lookin for a quick funy holiday book and sadly this did not deliver. It was inventive and unique, for sure, but... mot what I wanted to read at all. Thankfully it was only 99 pages or I never would have finished it!This tiny book is a collection of short re-imagined holiday tales that have been politically corrected. The reindeer lobby for better rights, Clara won't go off with the nutcracker because "such a journey is symbolic of the violent abduction that occurs in the wedding night [she then mentions that Dorothy and Alice have never been the same]," Frsoty melts due to global warming, etc. Clever but I just wasn't having it.
    • 5/5
      you'll be rolling on the floor as you attempt to get some of the new politically-correct phrases out of your mouth. It will be worse if you are actually trying to follow a tempo.
    • 4/5
      A scary collection of short holiday tales rewritten in a more politically correct way. An enjoyable holiday read.
    • 5/5
      Hilarious! Enjoy!