I found this book a little slow to get into but I am a Christian who celebrates a religious Christmas and some of it was wearing a little thin by midbook. The end was what I saw comming, but it was even better. I could see Chevy Chase or Dan Akroyd and Bette Midler in this as a perfect holiday film. This is an excellent gift to the scrooge in your family.Only point in the book that was oddly very inaccurate (shame on someone) is that Methodists do not call their ministers "Father" as the Krank's do in this book. Roman Catholics and high church Episcopalians, but not Methodists as far as I ever heard.