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Tedious.
I really didn't know how to approach the writing of this review. My normal method would be to provide a short summary and then my thoughts. There are, however, too many scenes which captivated this reader. A scene which seems contrived or extraneous will later weave into another scene of greater importance. Dickens is a master of the written language. Though his sentences are long, and he would appear at first glance to use too many descriptive words, they pack a lot of emotion and wit. He cover
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Jun 10, 2010
Cam
marked it as to-read
I lost interest after the first couple pages...I will try again later.
As much as it pains me to like anything so popular, this is really an amazing book. It kinda dragged a bit for me at the beginning, but I realized that's because he was setting everything up. All the exposition comes later. The title of the first book is "Recalled to Life." And you can see that theme repeating itself over and over as so many characters experience being "recalled to life", especially Sydney Carton, which was just beautiful.
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Damn! There were a lot of quotes in this book that made their way into our lexicon that I didn't know were from this book!
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Aug 15, 2010
Laura
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LeeEllen
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