Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

27 reviews

halaagmod's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 35%

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Absolutely insufferable. Dear Lord.

Full of flat and annoying characters, dry and longwinded paragraphs drone on for pages about absolutely nothing, horrible pacing, pointless conflicts, coupled with a love triangle that really adds nothing to the plot and makes no sense when the whole point is the characters being caught up in the middle of the French Revolution. It's clear Dickens was more concerned with his writing and making the story sound good when reading aloud than making an interesting and coherent story with any level of depth.

It's probably a classic for a reason, but honestly

that one fucking kid that got ran over by a cart to show the cruelty of the ruling class

probably had a way nicer fucking time than I did trying to read this shit. Ugh. Waste of time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Death of parent

quixie's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark informative slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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The opening and closing lines of this novel are just incredible, so is the plot. The prose was bit hard to get through, and I didn’t connect much with the characters. Also, I felt that the book could have been 1/3 shorter. There were several ghastly scenes that made me audibly gasp and I learned a lot about the French Revolution. Overall, incredible book, just a little difficult to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence

Minor: Alcohol

not_nosferatu's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death

Minor: Rape

acogna's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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Dickens proves again his masterful command of the English language. His world of Two Cities is humorous, blunt, treacherous, emotional, but full of hope and faith in humanity. I genuinely tear up whenever I think of this ending, and the love it inspires in any kind of reader. A magnum opus.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Child death

whisper88's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Forced institutionalization

frantically's review against another edition

2.75

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Classics get way too much leeway for their length because their classics. Dickens shut up challenge.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, War

Minor: Mental illness

rossiell's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Mental illness, Slavery, Violence

Minor: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder

eatpotatoes1's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Loved it loved it loved it loved it. 

Read this for my AP Lit class and thought it was SO GOOD. Very challenging for me to read at first but after I got used to it and started to get invested I loved it!! 

Some of my fav aspects were the allusions to the Bible and how that plays into dickens perception of the world. UGH I could talk ab it for so long istg. I love the characterizations. I think dickens does a pretty good job keeping characterizations consistent (except with Pross) and I think that adds a lot to the story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Domestic abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders

quills4days's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Murder, War, Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment

Minor: Death of parent, Alcohol

annapox's review against another edition

2.75

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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2 stars for the first half; 3.5 stars for the second half.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail