FREE THE CHRISTMAS TRAIN PDF David Baldacci,Neil Lang | 272 pages | 03 Nov 2016 | Pan MacMillan | 9781509821686 | English | London, United Kingdom The Christmas Train - Video A cynical journalist decides to take a train from Washington, D. He gets to know the other passengers and runs into an old flame while aboard. For an enhanced browsing experience, get the IMDb app on your smartphone or tablet. Get the IMDb app. The train they would be on to Los Angeles would be The Christmas Train Southwest Chief. The Southwest Chief does not go through the Colorado mountains. See the full gallery. Sign In. Added to Watchlist. Critic Reviews. Kimberly Williams-Paisley. Danny Glover. Joan Cusack. Holly Elissa. Kirsten Zien. Anthony Konechny. Jill Teed. Karen Holness. Terence Kelly. John Innes. Nelson Wong. Jesse Stanley. Eric Gustafsson. Douglas Roy Dack. Director: Ron Oliver. Writers: Neal H. Dobrofsky teleplayTippi Dobrofsky teleplayDavid Baldacci book. Facebook Twitter E-mail. Tom Langdon, tired and cynical journalist, travels by train so as to get story ideas for a book. He meets up with Eleanor Carter, his ex-lover The Christmas Train partner, who left him long ago in another country when they were covering a war. One thing leads to another, and they end up about The Christmas Train get married. What else? This is a Hallmark movie, the video version of Harlequin Romance. Like any such romance, it focuses almost entirely on the character's feelings, which are sketched in with cliched dialogue, portentous glances, one world-weary sigh after another, and so on. These books and movies are designed to enable the audience to fantasise a life- and love-style. I recorded it last December for later viewing because it was The Christmas Train on a train. The movie's adapted from a novel by David Baldacci, a shlock writer of considerable skill. He has the formulas down pat, and knows how to plot the story so that it's just over the line of reality, which makes suspension of disbelief easier. Unless, like me, you happen to have technical knowledge that spoils the illusion. There were too many small inconsistencies in the railroad setting, along with a major plot-flaw The Christmas Train an avalanche and an inability The Christmas Train radio the dispatcher. I have a copy of Baldacci's book. It begins, "Tom Langdon was a journalist, The Christmas Train globe- trotting one, because it was in his blood to roam widely. I enjoyed the silliness of it, and was, I confess, hard put to resist the mawkish sentimentality of its Christmas spirit. The Christmas Train You Know? Contribute to this page Edit page. The Evolution of Armie Hammer. More To Explore Search on Amazon. Training | HowStuffWorks View Larger Image. Synopsis: Banned from flying after an altercation The Christmas Train airport security, cash-strapped journalist Tom Langdon is forced to take the train to Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his girlfriend, financing the trip by selling a story about a train ride taken during the holiday season. He received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a law degree from the University of Virginia. Baldacci practiced law for nine years in Washington, D. David Baldacci has published 14 novels and a young adult series, Freddy and the French Fries. His works have been in numerous worldwide magazines, newspapers, journals, and publications. Baldacci has authored seven original screenplays. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold in more than 80 countries. All of his books have been national and international bestsellers. Over 50 million copies of Mr. Baldacci's books are in print worldwide. 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We're sorry; this specific copy is no longer available. AbeBooks has millions of books. We've listed similar copies below. Stock Image. The Christmas Train Baldacci, The Christmas Train. Published by Warner Books Used Hardcover Quantity Available: 2. Used Hardcover Quantity Available: 1. The Christmas Train David Baldacci. Published by Warner Books. There are 77 more copies of this book View all search results for this book. Tips to Improve a Christmas Tree Train Display Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on The Christmas Train browser. NOOK Book. Large Print. Where others saw only instability and fear in life, Tom felt graced by an embracing independence. He'd spent the bulk of his career in foreign lands covering wars, insurrections, famines, pestilence, virtually every earthly despair. His goal had been relatively simple: He had wanted to change the world by calling attention to its wrongs. And he did love adventure. However, after chronicling all these horrific events and still seeing the conditions of humanity steadily worsen, he'd returned to The Christmas Train filled with disappointment. Seeking an antidote The Christmas Train his melancholy he'd started writing drearily light stories for ladies' magazines, home- decorating journals, garden digests, and the like. However, after memorializing the wonders of compost and the miracle that was do-it-yourself The Christmas Train flooring, he wasn't exactly fulfilled. It was nearing Christmas, and Tom's most pressing dilemma was getting from the East Coast to Los The Christmas Train for the holidays. He had an age-old motivation for the journey; in LA was his girlfriend, Lelia Gibson. She'd started out as a movie actress, but after years of appearing in third-rate horror films she'd begun doing voiceover work. Now, instead of being cinematically butchered for her daily bread, she supplied the character voices for The Christmas Train variety of enormously popular Saturday-morning cartoons. In the children's television industry it was accepted that no one belted out the voices of goofy woodland creatures with greater flair and versatility than golden-piped Lelia Gibson. As proof, she had a shelf full of awards, an outrageously large income, and a healthy share of syndication rights. Tom and Lelia had The Christmas Train it off on an overnight flight from Southeast Asia to the States. At first he thought it might have been all the liquor they drank, but when that buzz burned off a couple hours out of LA, she was still beautiful and interesting—if a little ditzy and eccentric—and she still seemed attracted to him. He stayed over in California and they got to know each other even better. She visited him on the East Coast, and they'd been a comfortable if informal bi-coastal item ever since. It might seem strange that a successful Hollywood lady would go for a nomadic gent who ran through passports like water, could spout off funny if lewd phrases in thirty languages, and never would be financially secure. Yet Lelia had tired of the men in her circle. As she diplomatically explained it once, they were complete and total lying scum and unreliable to boot. Tom was a newsman, she said, so at least he occasionally dealt with the truth. She also loved his rugged good looks. He took that to mean the deep lines etched on his The Christmas Train from reporting in windswept desert climates with bullets flying. In fact his face was more often than not down in the sand in observance of local safety regulations. She listened with rapt attention to Tom's tales of covering major stories around the globe. For his part, he observed with admiration the professional way Lelia went about her loony-voice career. And they didn't have to live together year- round—a decided advantage, Tom believed, over the The Christmas Train hurdles facing couples who actually cohabitated. He'd been briefly married but had never had kids. Today his exwife wouldn't accept a collect call from him if he were hemorrhaging to death on the street. He was forty-one and had just lost his mother to a stroke; his father had been dead for several years. Being an only The Christmas Train, he was truly alone now, and that had made him introspective. Half his time on earth was gone, and all he had to show for it was a failed marriage, no offspring, an informal alliance with a California voiceover queen, a truckload of newsprint, and some The Christmas Train. By any reasonable measure, it was a miserable excuse for an The Christmas Train. He'd had an opportunity for a wonderful life with another woman but the relationship had, inexplicably, fallen apart. He now fully understood that not marrying Eleanor Carter would forever stand as the major mistake of his life.