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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.
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I challenged myself to finally read some Charles Dickens because it seemed that to not have read any of his novels was a fact that would not allow yourself to refer to yourself as serious reader or 'well-read'. I started off with Bleak House. It had everything that I was lead to expect about Dickens--great storytelling, loads of interesting side characters with sub-plots, great description really giving the reader the ability to visualize, smell, and feel Victorian England. Needless to say after
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I reread, or I should say revisited this book on audio for the first time since I was in High School, some 30 years ago. It surprised me how much I enjoyed it and I added an extra star. The audio book, read by Simon Vance was really remarkable and reminded me that this was how Dickens was meant to be read.
Which is not to say that a few thousand words couldn't be trimmed without hurting things much.
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Which is not to say that a few thousand words couldn't be trimmed without hurting things much.
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NOTE: this is an abridged version, which I didn't realize when I grabbed it from Peace Corps, but not like I'm in a position to be picky, right? Anyway, um, it was good? I don't feel like I missed much in the abridged form, but I've never read it before so I don't know.
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Somehow I managed to miss out on this Dickens classic. It's quite pertinent to our times. Some things just don't change.
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