Product Description
If You Could Change Your Life by Reversing Your Biggest Regrets, Sorrows and Mistakes...Would You?
#1 New York Times bestselling author and renowned radio and television host Glenn Beck delivers an instant holiday classic about boyhood memories, wrenching life lessons, and the true meaning of the gifts we give to one another in love.
We weren't wealthy, we weren't poor -- we just were. We never wanted for anything, except maybe more time together....
When Eddie was twelve years old, all he wanted for Christmas was a bike. Although his life had gotten harder -- and money tighter -- since his father died and the family bakery closed...Eddie dreamed that somehow his mother would find a way to have his dream bike gleaming beside their modest Christmas tree that magical morning.
What he got from her instead was a sweater. "A stupid, handmade, ugly sweater" that young Eddie left in a crumpled ball in the corner of his room.
Scarred deeply by the realization that kids don't always get what they want, and too young to understand that he already owned life's most valuable treasures, that Christmas morning was the beginning of Eddie's dark and painful journey on the road to manhood. It will take wrestling with himself, his faith, and his family -- and the guidance of a mysterious neighbor named Russell -- to help Eddie find his path through the storm clouds of life and finally see the real significance of that simple gift his mother had crafted by hand with love in her heart.
Based on a deeply personal true story, The Christmas Sweater is a warm and poignant tale of family, faith and forgiveness that offers us a glimpse of our own lives -- while also making us question if we really know what's most important in them.
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LET’S SEE, WHAT’S MISSING FROM THIS SAPPY AND CRAPPY BOLD FRESH PIECE OF….OOPS, WRONG RIGHT WINGER. WHAT OTHER SAD EVENTS COULD MAR WHAT LITTLE NARRATIVE THERE IS? GRANDMA GETS MUGGED? ROVER HIT BY FREIGHT TRAIN? BLACK MAN ELECTED PRESIDENT? I WAS WILLING TO GIVE THE TYPIST THE BENEFIT OF A DOUBT WHEN A COLLEAGUE PASSED THIS BOOK ALONG TO ME. AFTER A FEW PAGES, I REALIZED THIS GUY (OR WHOEVER THE GHOST WRITER WAS) WAS SLAPPING THIS ALL TOGETHER ACCORDING TO A MAUDLIN FORMULA, PECKING AWAY WITH A $MIRK ON HIS FACE. MY DAUGHTER TOLD THE SAME TALE BETTER, WHEN SHE WAS EIGHT.
Rating: 1 / 5
The Christmas Sweater
the main boy was so selfish and the story contrived that it was a difficult read.
Rating: 1 / 5
The Christmas Sweater
Beck’s brilliant storytelling ability brings to mind the great works of such literary geniuses as Charles Dickens and G.K. Chesterton. Beck’s moving story of how Islamic terrorists kill a little boy’s mother on Christmas day and how the boy triumphs in the end will bring a tear to your eye and a little bit of vomit to the back of your throat.
Little Eddy is angry and disappointed when his mother gives him a sweater for Christmas instead of the shiny bicycle he wished for. He throws the sweater back in his mother’s face. When Eddy’s mother is killed by Muslim extremists and Mexican immigrants who attack her for her freedoms and her landscaping job respectively, Eddy is tormented with feelings of guilt and anger. Eddy is driven further into depression and disillusionment when a liberal black man is elected President of the United States. Eddy gets drunk and converts to Mormonism. Then he channels all his anger toward becoming a conservative commentator. Little Eddy gets his own daily one-hour show on national television to speak out against the liberals and terrorists who messed up his Christmas. Although the black man remains as President, and the evil liberals all take over the government, Eddy nonetheless makes millions spewing his irrational rants against Alec Baldwin and Susan Sarandon and writing vomit-inducing books while his dead mother smiles from up above.
Rating: 5 / 5
The Christmas Sweater
I could not stand this book. I tried to get through but I just couldn’t. It appears other people like it so you may. Maybe they passed them out to every white american who loves their country and hates half the people living in it. You know, the people who believe in freedom and yet want to outlaw any beliefs they don’t believe in. The “real” Americans.
Rating: 1 / 5
The Christmas Sweater
I was encouraged by the reviews of this book, but found it almost unbearable to read in it’s trite, banal, contrived style. The book was devoid of artful storytelling. The “twist” at the end diminished the character’s struggle throughout the book. A waste of precious reading time!
Rating: 1 / 5
The Christmas Sweater