Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15942 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Synopsis
Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington to LA in time for Christmas. Forced to take the train across the country because of a slight 'misunderstanding' at airport security, he begins a journey of self-discovery and rude awakenings, mysterious goings-on and thrilling adventures, screwball escapades and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pulling him across America will actually take him into the rugged terrain of his own heart, where he will rediscover people's essential goodness and someone very special he believed he had lost. In equal parts hilarious, poignant, suspenseful and thrilling, The Christmas Train is a delightful journey filled with memorable characters who have packed their bags with as much wisdom as mischief...Part detective story, part disaster movie, part romance, this is a brilliant, heart-warming holiday tale.

Customer Reviews

Cozy Christmas Journey....
The Christmas Train is a pleasant read at any time of the year although especially at christmas.You feel like you are reading a cross between the warmth of 'Polar Express' and eccentric Miss Marple. From almost the first page you meet unusual characters and as the train journey travels on you are drawn more and more into the lives of everyone on board.
Helpful staff, gusty carol singers, eccentric old women and a priest (to name just a few) all come together for a journey of a lifetime.

Sit back relax and enjoy the ride,as that is what this book is all about. The story begins slowly idling along perfectly for the beginning of the story,then toward the middle of the book it picks up memento and there you are hurtling towards the stories final destination! A heart warming light read, great lovable characters, engaging tale and surprising twists......

Enjoy this book for what it is a sweet, warm, cozy, Christmas 'Journey'

Priscilla x

What a strange book!
Was hoping for something that never materialised. Thought the further I got into this book something interesting would happen, but it never did. Upon saying that there was something in the text that made me read the whole book. It was one of those books that you would enjoy when you're stuck in the house on a cold winter's day with nothing better to do. When I think about it, it really was a silly load of old flannel.

There is no option to give this minus numbers...
Really the worst book I have ever had the misfortune to suffer though. "Why did you bother all the way through?" I hear you cry. Well, reader, I read the whole book so I could be certain that everything I read after this would be like Dostoyevsky in comparison. I was nearly overcome with diarrhoea due to the amount of artificial sweetener this thing contains (and without the obligatory government warning that sugar free mints carry). It was with understanding that I read Mr Baldacci has worked in publishing. I knew he must have known someone high up, as without it who in their right mind would publish a book that contained a character with the improbable comedy monniker of 'Max Power'. Did he think he was naming a battery?

Predictable, cliched, writing by numbers. The only thing differentiating from a story written by a child was that the end was not 'and I woke up and it was all a dream...'

If you value your time - and remember, this is time you can never get back again - buy something else. Really, anything else.