Review of Logistics. A Christmas Story
Posted: 04 Jan 2022, 01:48
[Following is a volunteer review of "Logistics. A Christmas Story" by Chris Coppel.]
The first thing that typically comes to mind when thinking about Christmas, and the fantasies surrounding the holiday, are the joy and excitement to come spending time around families. People are thinking about visiting their families, children are waiting for their gifts from Santa, and everyone is looking forward to the festivities where they celebrate coming together. What people don’t think of is normally the hard work and labor that has to be done in order for everyone to enjoy the holidays. If one is interested in how fantasies may be actually highlighting a darker reality, then Logistics. A Christmas Story by Chris Coppel is a perfect read.
Logistics. A Christmas Story is a story that follows Holly Hillman, a successful CEO in the Marshall Whitman company who is preparing to strike a deal with Ling Chow. She has committed her whole life to pursuing success, and advancing her career, cutting everything else out of her life. However, an unexpected encounter at a bar in Greenland completely turns her life upside down, making her question everything that she has dedicated her life to.
Reading this novel felt incredibly eye opening. This book particularly stood out to me in a good way because of how it blended real life issues with childhood fairytales. The way Coppel used the lifestyle of elves at the North Pole to highlight Holly’s ignorance towards her objective felt incredibly eye opening, and made me step back and think back to how many things in my life may be built on some darker reality. I also really liked how Holly’s character developed throughout the course of the book, and those slight shifts early on, showing how she wasn’t as simple as she originally may come off as. Additionally, they are a nice touch, as they help foreshadow her progression over time.
Despite everything I love about the novel though, there was one particular aspect that I felt was a bit unnecessary: the romance aspect of the book. While this wasn’t a big part of the story, I feel like the extra romance included distracted from the main purpose of the novel. Although I loved the development of Holly, and how she came to understand the error of her ways, I find the way she handled her love life unrealistic in a way that was slightly off-putting.
Given everything, I would rate this book a 3 out of 4 . Besides the one aspect of extra unnecessary romance, this was a very heart-touching novel that successfully combines fantasy tales with real-life issues. Holly’s gradual development over the novel is incredibly satisfying to read, and delivers a sense of completion to me.
While I believe that everyone can learn something from this book, I also believe this book would be best for those who have a childlike imagination but are also practical individuals who have background knowledge of how logistics and spreadsheets work.
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Logistics. A Christmas Story
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The first thing that typically comes to mind when thinking about Christmas, and the fantasies surrounding the holiday, are the joy and excitement to come spending time around families. People are thinking about visiting their families, children are waiting for their gifts from Santa, and everyone is looking forward to the festivities where they celebrate coming together. What people don’t think of is normally the hard work and labor that has to be done in order for everyone to enjoy the holidays. If one is interested in how fantasies may be actually highlighting a darker reality, then Logistics. A Christmas Story by Chris Coppel is a perfect read.
Logistics. A Christmas Story is a story that follows Holly Hillman, a successful CEO in the Marshall Whitman company who is preparing to strike a deal with Ling Chow. She has committed her whole life to pursuing success, and advancing her career, cutting everything else out of her life. However, an unexpected encounter at a bar in Greenland completely turns her life upside down, making her question everything that she has dedicated her life to.
Reading this novel felt incredibly eye opening. This book particularly stood out to me in a good way because of how it blended real life issues with childhood fairytales. The way Coppel used the lifestyle of elves at the North Pole to highlight Holly’s ignorance towards her objective felt incredibly eye opening, and made me step back and think back to how many things in my life may be built on some darker reality. I also really liked how Holly’s character developed throughout the course of the book, and those slight shifts early on, showing how she wasn’t as simple as she originally may come off as. Additionally, they are a nice touch, as they help foreshadow her progression over time.
Despite everything I love about the novel though, there was one particular aspect that I felt was a bit unnecessary: the romance aspect of the book. While this wasn’t a big part of the story, I feel like the extra romance included distracted from the main purpose of the novel. Although I loved the development of Holly, and how she came to understand the error of her ways, I find the way she handled her love life unrealistic in a way that was slightly off-putting.
Given everything, I would rate this book a 3 out of 4 . Besides the one aspect of extra unnecessary romance, this was a very heart-touching novel that successfully combines fantasy tales with real-life issues. Holly’s gradual development over the novel is incredibly satisfying to read, and delivers a sense of completion to me.
While I believe that everyone can learn something from this book, I also believe this book would be best for those who have a childlike imagination but are also practical individuals who have background knowledge of how logistics and spreadsheets work.
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Logistics. A Christmas Story
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon