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A review by cartoonmicah
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
5.0
It took me long enough, but at last I finished A Tale Of Two Cities.
I'm not sure what to say about this one, apart from the fact that it is Dickens at his most grandiose and at his finest. While Dickens typically tends to excel at pursuing smaller plots in overlooked corners, here he proves that he can do high-scale historical fiction on par with Les Mis or Monte Cristo.
I read (or sort of, kinda got the gist of an abridged version of) this story in a high school english class and everyone knows the first and last line of the novel, so I read it knowing where it would end up and slowly dreading the second half of the novel. I should not have feared so greatly because there are plenty of smaller elements that bolster the grand ending. The journey through the French Revolution is frightful and harrowing, but it remains interesting.
I cried in the last chapter of this book. It's too good, too full of evil and goodness triumphing over that senseless evil, to keep it at bay from the deepest depths of the heart. Read it.
I'm not sure what to say about this one, apart from the fact that it is Dickens at his most grandiose and at his finest. While Dickens typically tends to excel at pursuing smaller plots in overlooked corners, here he proves that he can do high-scale historical fiction on par with Les Mis or Monte Cristo.
I read (or sort of, kinda got the gist of an abridged version of) this story in a high school english class and everyone knows the first and last line of the novel, so I read it knowing where it would end up and slowly dreading the second half of the novel. I should not have feared so greatly because there are plenty of smaller elements that bolster the grand ending. The journey through the French Revolution is frightful and harrowing, but it remains interesting.
I cried in the last chapter of this book. It's too good, too full of evil and goodness triumphing over that senseless evil, to keep it at bay from the deepest depths of the heart. Read it.