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Summary: Dickens' Finest
Review: For those of us who hated Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities is its complete opposite. It is a gripping story, filled with action and suspense. Its ending is anything but anti-climatic.
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Summary: I grew to respect it.
Review: I had to read this for my Freshmen Honors English class two years ago. The ending did, and still does ring a bit false to me. However, it is put together masterfully, if a bit verbosely. Nonetheless, this book is not my favorite of all time and my rating reflects that.
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Summary: BORING????
Review: Yes, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and just because something is considered a classic doesn't necessarily mean one has to like it. We aren't robots. What appalls me however, is how often I hear many young people and adults for that matter, using the word boring when reviewing a book. I am so grateful that my parents didn't allow me to use that word without a reprimand. My mother, a voracious reader,always told me "David, if you're bored your're boring". I always got on the defensive when told this. As I grew older I began to understand what she meant. On a planet with so many books to read and so many ways of looking at what the books are saying, how can anyone ever be bored? If a book doesn't interest you, put it aside and don't read it, but please, never call it boring.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: I read this book, like many other reviewers, in high school. To say it was really easy to read would be lying. It is a complex book, but worth reading and understanding to the fullest! The plot was beautifully concieved, and nothing will ever beat its magnificient ending. To the high school students...this is what reading is about. You need to learn to read between the lines to get the full affect of the story rather than complaining about too many details. Whether you read it for honors or AP courses is irrelevant if you don't have the comprehension and patience to read a story like this. It was books like this that inspired me to read more of the classics and eventually earn my degree in English. I only wish there were more authors like Charles Dickens in this day and age.
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Summary: A true test for literature appreciation
Review: Anyone who reads the first of the three parts, and gives up because of lack of interest is why this country is falling apart. Today, we have no attention spans, are spending all of our time playing mindless video games and moshing like animals. This book truly reminds what what good antertainment is about. Dickens is a master of literary skill. He brings his characters to life with both detailed description and the lack of it. Anyone who writes a review and gives one star, should be spending their time on the internet looking at porn.
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Summary: Fine for what it is, but I expected better
Review: I find it strange that Dickens, a supremely great writer at the height of his powers, should approach a subject of such importance - the French Revolution - and yet have absolutely no insight to offer on it. All he makes out of it as a romantic melodrama. As a romantic melodrama, it, is, of course, very fine, but one does have a right to expect more.
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Summary: Abosultely Awful: The worst book I've ever read
Review: It was the worst of times. I had to read A Tale of Two Cities for school.This book proved to any doubters that Charles Dickens was payed by the word, and arguably the most overrated writer in the history of literature. A boring, wordy book with an unexciting, weak, predictable plot. I would not reccomend this book to anybody, unless their sole intention is to rip it up and rightfully critisize it.
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Summary: It's the "perfect novel" for a reason
Review: While I was "forced" to read this for school and had a hard time getting into it, once I finished reading it, I realized that no better piece of literature has ever been written. Every little detail that you dismiss as nothing in the beginning comes back to play a major role in the conclusion. May be boring for those who seek action, but the best thought-out, most amazing novel I've ever read.
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Summary: It was great
Review: I first tried to read A Tale of Two Cities when I was ten, and I was bored by it. In ninth grade other classes had to read it and hated it, but my class read Great Expectations instead. When I was sixteen I read it on my own time, and I loved it. I don't know why other reviewers get so hung up on the language. That's just how people wrote back then. It's a great story, especially if you like French history. It's too bad that so many people start hating it in high school, which is perhaps before they have the maturity to appreciate it.
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Summary: Better the 2nd time around
Review: Like everyone else I know of, I had to read this in the 10th grade. I found it suspenseful & mesmerizing, but "depressing". Twenty-five years later, and with hopes, dying hopes, disappointments, failures, re-born hopes, and re-born faith, I read it again (after taking up reading as a hobby while recuperating from an injury). Not surprisingly, it's much better. the only downer is that the characters, except Carton, Pross, & Jerry Cruncher, are weak & cliched. Not Dickens' best novel, but it certainly has his best hero.
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