A Tale of Two Cities

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Summary: WATCH THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This book is long and boring. Dickens describes the hell out of everything-just get to the point. The book only made sense when my teacher explained it. If Dickens got paid by the word then he was one rich guy.

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Summary: Pointless descriptions until the ending
Review: When I was given this book to read by my grade eight teacher, I was excited at being given the chance to read a real "classic." However, I soon changed my mind when I got into the long decriptions just after the beginning of the book. I was optimistic in the first few chapters, hoping that a real plot would soon develop. I soon realized that there was no such hope. I have never heard about Dickens being paid per line, but that would certainly make sense. With the exception of Sydney Carton, the characters were flat and too good to be true, especially Lucie. The redeeming feature of this book was the ending, which, I admit, made me cry.

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Summary: This is certainly not the best classic I've ever read !!!!!!
Review: I admit it ... Charles Dickens is a GREAT author it's just that "A Tale of Two Cities" is certainly not the best book in the world!I just really think that he really wasted his life writing this book!!!Of course we all have opinions & if someone rates this book a "5 star" book I would understand that because we're all entitled to what we have to say ... so don't get me wrong if you LOVE this book!!!I suggest "A Journey to the Center of the Earth"!!!!

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Summary: A beautiful, uplifting novel
Review: For anyone who has ever felt that his or her life has had no purpose, or who has not been successful, or for anyone who just "couldn't get it together," this book gives hope and a kind of release from worry. It shows that in just one moment, a whole wasted life can be made worth while. One fantastic thing about the book is that it appears to be just a historical novel, especially at first..."It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"...and so on. It is certainly historical, but towards the end, one experiences the triumph of the individual soul over the outside world. It is as though the surroundings disappear, and the reader gets to experience death along with the protagonist, the English lawyer in France who doesn't really belong in the setting...like us, the readers. I saw a film version when I was halfway through the book, and knew what to expect, but I still cried for a while after reading the last page. I would recommend the book to anyone, with two suggestions: first, have some idea of what it is about (not all readers are experienced enough to catch the abundant foreshadowing--look for it!); and second, watch the film with Dirk Bogarde as Sydney Carton--it's an old black and white film, but it gives you the best sense of what the book is like, and it's very moving.

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Summary: A Tale Of Two Cities
Review: I was required to read this book, for my 10th grade English class. I'm still unable to figure out why. This book, was one of the worst I have ever read. I think Charles Dickens is a great author, with many great novels, but this has to be one of his worst. It was interesting at times, but I beacme very confused in his writing, and his ideas jumped around way to much. Which required me to re-read phrases over and over just to start to understand them.

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Summary: This novel has a good reason for having uneeded details!
Review: I was assigned this book for freshman English and knew how Dickens wrote with extreme amounts of detail. My teacher explained to us this year that Dickens was paid by each line he wrote. His "books" in this novel were published singularly once a week to hold the people of the town in suspense to find out what was going to happen. If you got paid by each line you wrote, you would have used extreme amounts of detail too!!!!!

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Summary: Long, but worth it
Review: It took a lot of self-discipline to get through the first dozen chapters of useless details, but once I really got considerably into the story, I loved it. After I read it, I immediately read it again trying to find intresting details that I missed before. To anyone who thinks this book is too long: remember, in Dicken's time, authors were paid for the quantity, not the quality of their work. I am a freshman in high school, and I woould recommend this book to anyone!

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Summary: It was very ingenious, but quite boring to read!
Review: I am a freshman in highschool and it is required to read Tale of Two Cities. Dickens is a very brilliant writer, practically a genious. But, the book is very boring to read, it is almost unbarable! I wouldn't even give the piece two stars if Dickens wasn't a legenday writer. I think this novel shouldn't be classified as required reading for freshman; no offense Dickens!

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Summary: An excessively long, boring book
Review: This has to be one of the worst books we've ever read. Dickens spends entirely too much time describing unimportant details and events. What should have been a 50-page novella was extended into a masterpiece of boredom. We don't understand why this book, like so many others, is hailed as a classic, when the ideals portrayed in the book could have taken up much less space. It is a typical Dickens composition: long and boring. Though better than Great Expectations, it was still paralyzingly boring. We rest our case.

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Summary: This book was so interesting
Review: I thought that this book was awesome!!! When I had to read it over the summer for English I didn't understand it at all. Once my English class analyzed it, the hidden meanings let loose to a whole world of thought inducing themes. I enjoyed this book very much.