I loved this..I didn't really feel like I was reading a 'Classic' in the sense if it being onerous, or hallowed in some way..I just thought it was a great story that I cannot believe I hadn't read before now. I wiped away a tear at the end..the nobility of a human being ..very moving..
Just finished up as our evening read-aloud. EXCELLENT! At the end of the chapter "The Knitting Done" we all rose up and said "Way to go Miss Pross!". Wow, what a fantastic fight and what a glorious vindication!This book never fails to bring me to tears for the sorrow of sacrifice, and then tears ...
This is my favorite Dickens. Most memorable line? "It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."
Just can't understand what is going on half the time. Had no idea of the story going in and maybe that is part of the problem. Just gonna give up rather than force my way through and try again when I'm older.
My first Dickens novel. Thoroughly enjoyed reading it. But not one I might want to read again and again. Anyway, I still loved it.Waiting to start reading Great Expectations! Review to follow!
Who are your gods? Whom do you worship in actions, and whom in words? Charles Dickens waggles his finger in my face, the finger of a crone, of a maiden, of a businessman. The polished finger of a marquis, the calloused finger of a knitter. He makes his point with the appropriate number of adject...
So, Batman reminded me that I need to brush up on my Dickens. I mean The Dark Knight Rises, not Batman personally. He doesn't just pop in for spontaneous cups of tea and reader's advisory..
Dickens is a hit-or-miss author for me. (Please, don't throw things.) But A Tale of Two Cites was amazing. It takes place around/during the French Revolution, and has impressive range of narrators--French, English, poor, rich, oblivious, vengeful, etc. He somehow manages to keep all of these protago...
Thank you High School English teachers for not requiring me to read this book in HS as I may never have read another book again. Thank you, thank you.A Tale of Two Cities is brutally dull, the pace was brutally slow and the writing style was brutally tedious. Overall this book was BRUTAL. It was abs...
One of the reasons Charles Dickens is still read today, when so many of his contemporaries go unread, is his amazing skill at creating characters. The broken old Doctor Manette is one of his most memorable, and even relatively minor characters like Jerry Cruncher, the English bulldog Miss Pross, an...
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