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Worst Noel

Hellish Holiday Tales

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Worst Noel

By: Collected Authors of the Worst Noel
Narrated by: Collected Authors of the Worst Noel
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It's that time of year again -- the holiday season. Between checkout lines a mile long, the office party hangover, battles with traffic, and delayed flights, what's better to do than to listen to The Worst Noel and laugh your holiday aggravation away?

The collection features an eclectic mix of writers with playful, often dark humor as the common thread.

Literature & Fiction Witty Christmas Anthologies & Short Stories Anthologies Winter
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I got this book before x-mas time to get a few laughs. However, most of the stories were dark and depressing, and most of the humor feel flat (at least to me). Some stories were better than others, but I found it an entirely forgettable book.

A sleeper

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Saying that I hated this book would be too strong, because there were a couple of worthwhile stories. I was expecting humor, nostalgia, irony, poignancy, or something give me a reason to keep listening. Instead, too many of the stories were whiny, boring and irritating. If you're looking for an amusing, thoughtful or "feel good" holiday book, this is not it.

The Worst Book

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Good grief! This is *not* the book to read for a lighthearted take on the holiday! Despite the publisher's summary suggestion that this book will make you "laugh your holiday aggravation away", the tales were depressing enough that halfway through the recording my husband made me promise not to play this in the house! Stories involving crashing cars into deer, and even into Santa himself; musings on holiday suicide; children suffering through poverty (with the mice and rats eating the decorations off their Christmas tree, no less!); more children weeping over the divorce of their parents; people miserable over the bleakness of Chanukah... my goodness, this is enough to have you reaching for the antidepressants. I suppose the bright side of this recording is that it will make you realize just how mild your holiday complaints are compared with these tales. But it's not family listening... or even recommended for anyone who's not in the mood to wallow in misery. The narration being done by the authors is a nice touch, but ths book itself is just depressing.

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If you are looking for a short story collection that will ruin your Noel, this is it. This is a collection of uninteresting, unpleasant, and humorless short stories.

Title should have been "The Worst Short Stories"

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