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A Tale Of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Spoiler warnings
I’m warning you
I hate this book I hate it so much . I was supposed to read this for school, usually I don’t have problems reading books for school but this book was something else. First of all book the 1st was the hardest to read, it was so long boring even if it was good to the plot and I did like the idea of the chapters the writing was too much and the chapters would stray away from the main idea. It prepared the readers for the shithole this book is.
Now for the book two was extremely slow. Although I found it easier to read than book 1 it was still as bad as it. Book two lacked any true depth. Book 3 was the only good part of each 3 books, book 3 showed some true story.
The main problem I had with this was the super obvious symbolism. Now dickens has only two types of writing. He could write “and James sat on the chair” and that would refer to that one story in that British newspaper no one ever read which would symbolise desperation or he would write “vengeance was looking for Madame defarge” now that’s not the actual words but in the last chapter when Vengeance was looking for Madame defarge made it so obvious what he was trying to do and it irked me.
I also didn’t feel for any of the characters. We learned a lot of the characters background and their struggles but dickens wrote in a way that did not make it anything interesting and you could not feel for the characters. When darnay got prisoned I did not care or at all. When Sydney got killed it made me feel something but not something I would usually feel when someone dies.
Now the love story part of the book was really annoying too. There was no chemistry between the characters. The characters which I thought had chemistry was miss pross and lorry. Charles darnay and Lucies love just felt as if you saw someone and was like yea that persons good but then you suddenly get married to them just because your pretty and that person is pretty. Or maybe that’s just a me problem because I’m all about the slow burn.
Sydney carton kind of annoyed me sometimes. He gave me pick me boy energy. But I think he’s the only real character in the book with a cool personality. Plus I COULD DEFINATELY FIX HIM RAHHHH, When he came back in book 3 my heart was so happy.i liked him but not enough to care about his death but enough for me to LIke him.
Overall this book was horrible I’ve read better books would have never read it if it wasn’t for school.
I’m warning you
I hate this book I hate it so much . I was supposed to read this for school, usually I don’t have problems reading books for school but this book was something else. First of all book the 1st was the hardest to read, it was so long boring even if it was good to the plot and I did like the idea of the chapters the writing was too much and the chapters would stray away from the main idea. It prepared the readers for the shithole this book is.
Now for the book two was extremely slow. Although I found it easier to read than book 1 it was still as bad as it. Book two lacked any true depth. Book 3 was the only good part of each 3 books, book 3 showed some true story.
The main problem I had with this was the super obvious symbolism. Now dickens has only two types of writing. He could write “and James sat on the chair” and that would refer to that one story in that British newspaper no one ever read which would symbolise desperation or he would write “vengeance was looking for Madame defarge” now that’s not the actual words but in the last chapter when Vengeance was looking for Madame defarge made it so obvious what he was trying to do and it irked me.
I also didn’t feel for any of the characters. We learned a lot of the characters background and their struggles but dickens wrote in a way that did not make it anything interesting and you could not feel for the characters. When darnay got prisoned I did not care or at all. When Sydney got killed it made me feel something but not something I would usually feel when someone dies.
Now the love story part of the book was really annoying too. There was no chemistry between the characters. The characters which I thought had chemistry was miss pross and lorry. Charles darnay and Lucies love just felt as if you saw someone and was like yea that persons good but then you suddenly get married to them just because your pretty and that person is pretty. Or maybe that’s just a me problem because I’m all about the slow burn.
Sydney carton kind of annoyed me sometimes. He gave me pick me boy energy. But I think he’s the only real character in the book with a cool personality. Plus I COULD DEFINATELY FIX HIM RAHHHH, When he came back in book 3 my heart was so happy.i liked him but not enough to care about his death but enough for me to LIke him.
Overall this book was horrible I’ve read better books would have never read it if it wasn’t for school.