I am loving this series of classics read by Gildart Jackson. Each one has a unique feel, even with the common thread of the crackling fire, as he brings the stories to life. He does a great job embracing the spirit of the books and their characters. I highly recommend!

I was so drawn i to to this audible and it fit so perfect right around Christmas. It was my first time listening to this narrator and he did such a good job giving each character their own voice

I usually read A Christmas Carol every year around Christmas but this year I ended up listening to this audiobook after Christmas (listened to it on January 1st).

I love the way it’s read.

I really enjoyed this book! I liked the narrator and felt that they went good with the story. I hope to read more by this author in the future.
Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and to the author for the ARC!

Gildart Jackson reads Charles Dickens’ <i>A Christmas Carol</i>, broken down into a few sections per chapter/stave. As always, he did a fabulous job reading and emoting this story to us. I highly recommend this performance of A Christmas Carol!

Many thanks to NetGalley for providing me an audio ARC of this book.

I haven't read this since I was a kid.
I loved the audio version of this classic. story.
I will be choosing more of these Fireside Readings.

Reading A Christmas Carol (or listening, in this case) was always going to be a challenge, since there have been so many excellent adaptations of Charles Dickens' classic that it's impossible not to make comparisons. That said, there is something special about a fireside reading, and Gildart Jackson is an excellent narrator. My only complaint is that the audio was occasionally patchy.

I want to thank Netgalley and the author for gifting me the ebook. I really liked the narrator. This book is done in 20-30 min intervals. I really liked the narrator and I wished he would have read it all the way through without those intervals. There were a lot of parts where the audio cuts out and you can't hear him for a min or so. But all in all I really enjoyed the story. I would listen to this narrator again. I was very excited to see that he also has a YouTube channel where he read many more stories.
I did love the fact that at the beginning of every Interval there was a little history lesson. Highly recommend.

Thank you NetGalley for the lovely opportunity to listen to Fireside Reading of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. This is my first fireside reading, and it felt so nostalgic to me, reminding me of listening to radio story reading as a child while driving with my family. It felt to me like perhaps it was recorded to be on the radio as well.

I took the opportunity while driving around my city Christmas shopping this last week to listen. The voice actor did such a great job and made it easy to understand who was talking with all the great voices he used! However, it was recorded it seems to be played in segments (or like I mentioned in radio snippets with breaks), and the actor starts and ends each section with a bit of an intro or something that I don’t think is in the book…and I found this confusing. Sometimes I wasn’t sure if that was actually written in the story or if it was just a definition teaching moment, etc.

Regardless it was a fun read and I’d recommend it to family and friends!

This was my first time listening to an audiobook in a "fireside reading" format. The book is read in sections and are just long enough to make a quick trip to the store or a bit of yard work entertaining. I had a lot of fun with the 15-20 min. snippets (I listen at 2x speed), and the narrator was excellent.

On Goodreads: "Fireside Reading of A Christmas Carol" is showing up with community reviews for Alice in Wonderland and its author listed as Lewis Carrol. I was looking for "Fireside Reading of A Christmas Carol" and found this:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72091319-fireside-reading-of-a-christmas-carol?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=WIwWmWvdxv&rank=1

This was truly spectacular. As if I haven’t seen and read enough adaptations, this is my new favorite!! His voices and expressions. His added asides. Truly *perfection*.

Thank you to Dreamscape Media and to NetGalley for an ARC of this audiobook.

I have listened to several of thse fireside books and I love each of them The stories are all classics, and are fantastic and I love the way the narrator reads them. He is awesome. I really want to purchase these books for my personal collection. I listen to them while falling asleep at night. They are great.

This is my favorite book of all time so this is really a review of the presentation. Narrator did a great job and I really enjoyed the tidbits of info that was presented at the beginning of each episode

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for my copy of Fireside Reading of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Narrated by Gildart Jackson in exchange for an honest review. It published November 17, 2022.
Naturally, since this is my favorite book, and I read it or listen to it annual, A Christmas Carol gets all the stars from me. Honestly, if you haven't read it yet, and you celebrate Christmas, treat yourself!
The narration was very well-done. I really appreciated the serial-style, and found Gildart Jackson to be quite adept at narration. I loved the little snippets and the music. The only hang up for me was that there were times when it seemed as if the microphone was far away, although it only happened a time or two.
This would be such a fun audiobook to share with your family as a nightly ritual with your family during Christmastime, or binge it, like I did!

I've ways read this book myself, never listened to an audiobook of it until now. Boy, does the narrator change the experience of the story! He does an excellent job of expressing emotion and presenting pauses and proper pacing in the storytelling. I never stopped listening when he'd take a break as if he was reading it in person, although that's a clever way of breaking it up for the listener; I would listen on through until I was ready to pause and pick it up later. The little tidbits of information at the beginning of each section were neat to hear!

This audiobook really enhances the well-known story, and I'm glad to have listened to it.

Loved this reading of an old classic - the set-up of leaning into the episodic structure of the original text was very inventive and the "fireside" reading was so evocative and perfect for the season

Thank you to Netgalley and Dreamscape media for allowing me to listen to an ARC of this book.

I have listened to many of Gildart Jackson's narrations. Usually, I like him. He is a performer and, assuming he is reading to children, he is very engaging.. However, I was disappointed in this reading. Perhaps he was reading it as the serial chapters that Dickens would have published it. So at the end of each chapter, he thanked us for listening and with very loud noises of papers turning and the book shutting, we awaited the next chapter. He didn't just start with the chapter, he gave a preface and then began reading. I found it disconcerting. I have never read the Christmas Carol this way and if he was replicating the past, it was not appealing to me.

But he is a wonderful narrator. And the story is a winner no matter how many times you read or listen to it.
So I'm giving it two stars based on the narration and not on the story.

As someone that has never read A Christmas Carol, this audio version was good. The narrator gave life to the characters within the story and made it feel more lively. That being said, this audio version splits each chapter into 2 segments with each one ending with "we'll see you next time" and bringing with " welcome back, last time we read...". So that took my interest out of the story a little bit. But, at the beginning of each segment, there is also a little tid-bit of information that you might not have realized, like Charles Dickens made coined the word scrooge which was interesting. Overall an enjoyable read.

This was a reread for me, I have listened to this audiobook for the last few Decembers. I really enjoyed the other "Fireside" audiobooks Netgalley and Dreamscape Media have put out so I was excited to get this one as well.
While I do love the narration, each section of this book gave us a pause with a "I will be right back with the next installment of this story" and then a small explanation of what had happened previously or a tidbit about Charles Dickens etc. While these were fun, it did bring me out of the story and felt a little weird and unnecessary.
The story itself is so iconic. It is written in a way kind of hard to follow just because it is so old. Having so many classic movies and stuff, almost everyone already knows the premise so you still can follow it.
It was such a perfect time to release this new version of the audiobook and I enjoyed my time listening to it!

A Christmas Carol is the very definition of what it means to be a classic. It’s a story I’ve read, seen-(in movies, TV, plays), and listened to more times than I can count. I reread, listen, and rewatch the story countless times every Christmas. Seriously, no matter the format, whether it’s reading one of my well worn physical copies, on my my iPad, watching a stage play, a feature film, a made for TV version, listening to the various audio recordings, or watching the animated/puppet versions such as Disney’s Mickey’s Christmas Carol or The Muppet Christmas Carol I never pass up a chance to revisit this wonderful ghost story of redemption. So I was thrilled when Dreamscape Media and NetGalley granted me the opportunity to listen to an advanced copy of the new Fireside Reading of A Christmas Carol. I think I’ve already made it clear just how much I love Dickens’ tale, so the real question is how would I enjoy narrator Gildart Jackson’s version? I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed his rendition. He does an excellent job of bringing these much loved characters to life. Now this Fireside reading is a bit different than most readings. The story is not just read from start to finish, rather it’s broken up into 15 installments, with bits of information about Dickens and A Christmas Carol in general preceding each of the installments. It’s definitely worth a listen and will certainly become one of the versions I routinely re-listen to each holiday season.