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A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations: Two Novels
by Charles Dickens
by Charles Dickens
Stacey's review
bookshelves: classics
May 22, 11
bookshelves: classics
Read from February 04 to May 22, 2011 — I own a copy
Great Expectations:
I liked this book MUCH more than the other although it wasn't until the last 100 pages that I really didn't want to put it down and needed to know how the story concluded.
A Tale of Two Cities:
Reading other people's reviews, I feel the same way - that it took me almost halfway through the book to understand who everyone was and what was going on (maybe I should have read a synopsis of the book first). I found the language difficult and the rhythm offbeat. Maybe if I'd read this with a group and we discussed it along the way it would have been more enjoyable. The last hundred pages or so I did start to get into it and had a picture of the time painted more vividly in my mind. To think about what facing the guillotine was really like.... and how brutal and blood-thirsty people were was frightening. It did illuminate a time that I would like to know more about.
I liked this book MUCH more than the other although it wasn't until the last 100 pages that I really didn't want to put it down and needed to know how the story concluded.
A Tale of Two Cities:
Reading other people's reviews, I feel the same way - that it took me almost halfway through the book to understand who everyone was and what was going on (maybe I should have read a synopsis of the book first). I found the language difficult and the rhythm offbeat. Maybe if I'd read this with a group and we discussed it along the way it would have been more enjoyable. The last hundred pages or so I did start to get into it and had a picture of the time painted more vividly in my mind. To think about what facing the guillotine was really like.... and how brutal and blood-thirsty people were was frightening. It did illuminate a time that I would like to know more about.
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Reading Progress
| 02/07/2011 | page 60 |
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7.0% | |
| 02/08/2011 | page 91 |
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11.0% | "I have never read a book with this many run-on sentences." |
| 02/26/2011 | page 217 |
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26.0% | "Really having trouble with this book. Sometimes I don't even know what I am reading. There is no real rhythm. Only now are some of the parts coming together but I am not sure I understood enough of the previous reading to follow all the plotlines." |
| 03/04/2011 | page 377 |
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45.0% | "FINISHED A Tale of Two Cities! I don't like that this edition counts this as one book." |
| 03/04/2011 | page 390 |
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47.0% | "Decided to go ahead and read Great Expectations too. Only a few pages in, but so far it seems to be written in a language I can understand." |
| 03/09/2011 | page 421 |
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50.0% | "Enjoying Great Expectations more already." |
