A Tale of Two Cities

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Re: A Tale of Two Cities

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This book is the best work Dickens wrote. I stayed up reading it a couple of nights. I hope you mange to get another copy of the book to reread.
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I began reading this book but sadly, I lost the book. The only issue was the language was too difficult for me to understand (I may of course have read it while still young and not familiar with the level.) I hope to get it some day and finish it up.
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Tail of two cities is a book I love. First, it tell of adventure, as a child you are always exploring and looking for that great adventure that you see in the movies. Well this book gives you that, with a little magic on the side. As a child and now as an adult I still get goosebumps. This book too me is one of the best things that have ever been writing.
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I remember, when I was a student at UMass Amherst, listening to James Baldwin lecture to us on A Tale of Two Cities and Uncle Tom's Cabin. I don't recall the details, but I think he was comparing and contrasting various points.
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In school, I was used to reading the abridged versions of novels. So when I got the unabridged version of the book 'The Tale of Two cities', I was overwhelmed by the length of the book and thus couldn't get myself to complete it. But now having read a lot of lengthy books like Haruki Murakami ones, I guess I will be okay with it. I really look forward to reading this book.
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That perfectly describes how i feel every time i read a good book. I also read that book in English class, i remember how it was so perfect. Maybe i should read it again to remember it.
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A tale of two cities is so well connecting book. The way the lives have been Explained is tremendously effective.
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This is easily one ofy favourite books. I never liked it at first, but as I read on, I couldn't help but praise the author.
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Its one of those stories that takes a while to get going. I wasn't too invested in the beginning as I had problems remembering who everyone was. Towards the climax however, I was surprised at how much I cared for the wellbeing of these characters. I was routing for them. Enjoyed it at the end, but I can see some not liking it.
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A Tale of Two Cities was one of the first books I read by Charles Dickens. It was a very touching story and I liked the ending very much.
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This was one of the literature in English
textbook that I had to read as a sophomore back in the '80s. A good read, I must say.
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It was given to me as a gift when I got the bronze medal honor graduating in grade school. It was a difficult read then when I was eleven but I've read it when I'm older and I learned about the French revolution because of it. I wish the tumbrils of the revolution could be flown to Manila after Duterte's presidency.
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' It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct the other way-- in short the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.'
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I haven't read it yet but as a hardcore classics fan I very much am going to. Dickens is a magician with his words.
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How comes I never came across this book?! You sound like it's so interesting
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