A Tale of Two Cities in Around the World in 80 Books

Jul 23, 2007 Suvi rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: _book-shelf, _france, _great-britain, cities_london, novels, 1800s, cities_paris, historical

There are some passages I will not forget, one of them being the description of wine flooding in the streets of Paris which would soon become blood. People are devouring wine even from pieces of wood like they will devour blood during the time of La Guilloutine. Sydney Carton is undoubtedly a charismatic character and the ending made me blink my eyes in disbelief. Dickens does a lot of subtle foreshadowing but I still couldn't believe it for some reason. ...more

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Feb 22, 2010 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was ok

Shelves: historical-fiction, classic, 1001-books, gutenberg, napoleonic-wars-and-spies

I can't believe I'm re-reading this. A Tale of Two Cities stands out as the ONLY book assigned to me in school (in all my years of school) that I did not read. I tried, I did, but I just couldn't wade through it. (Didn't help that it was assigned immediately after Great Expectations. I'd HAD it with Dickens by then. What was my high school freshman English teacher thinking?) To fulfill the Ultimately Reading Challenge category, "book you were supposed to read in school," this was my only option. ...more

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Jun 22, 2011 Jenny rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, brit-lit, fiction, dickens, male-authors

Read it a long time ago and was not too impressed. Read it a few weeks ago again, and something was different this time. I liked it much more. I think when Dickens is forced upon you it is not fun, but when you pick up Dickens on your own accord, it can be magical. I suppose this can be true of most books though.

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