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By:  John Grisham

Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris

ASIN: B00005TQ1C

Publisher: Random House 

Publication Date: 11/6/2001

Format: Audio

My Rating: 3 Stars

If you have seen Christmas with the Kranks (2004) starring Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Julie Gonzalo, René Lavan, and Dan Aykroyd, you almost forget the movie is based on John Grishman’s book, SKIPPING CHRISTMAS.

I have seen the movie several times over the years, and needed a fun audiobook with a day of working and website updates. Grisham provides plenty of entertaining fun, wit, and humor.

Basically, their only daughter is going away for Christmas, so the parents decide they will boycott Christmas, and plan a cruise to the Caribbean. No shopping, gifts, baking, parties, and all the commercial stuff. (we all would like to do this—I have done so many times--easier  when you live out of town).

What’s funny is the tanning bed. I was laughing out loud. The parents want to get a good tan and lose weight, botox injections to look good in the swimsuits, before their trip. The neighbors get mad, then there is Frosty. Quirky and crazy.

At the minute their daughter calls. She is coming home for Christmas, having met a doctor. She has told him all about her parent’s famous holiday parties. They have twelve hours to pull off a party.

They are scrambling to pull off a Christmas holiday to keep up the pretenses. Everyone has an opinion. The neighbors all pull together with the help of some outsiders. If you want some laughs, get the audio, narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris, and watch the DVD.

Having read most all of Grisham’s legal crime thrillers, it was fun seeing a different side of the author.