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Reflections on A Tale of Two Cities | Mega Dickens Readalong

Reviews9

Mixed

I do love it a lot like it's a Dickens novel of course I love it and I do think there are some fantastic elements especially sort of the dramatic crowd scenes and the Very ending of the novel I feel like it's a very beautiful book in many ways but I do feel that for me the characterization for the majority of the characters is very thin and for me really like Falls flat in comparison to the rest of Dickens it's a very different Dickens book

Liked

I feel like having reread both in the last year or two I feel like bar R ranks a lot higher for me and I like it a lot more cuz I feel like the characterization is a lot more interesting than in a tale two cities

Loved

I feel like if you have read a t of Two Cities and you haven't read the count of Mont Christo then you really should read the count of monter Christo one because it's just fantastic and Brilliant and better than ay cities in my opinion

Loved

I personally find Amy dor a fascinating character but I know when we were reading little dor there were a few people who felt that Amy dor kind of maybe fell into a less interesting more angel in the house figure which I didn't get at all

Mixed

I feel like overall the characterization in a t two cities reminds me of the characterization in ol twist where there are one of two characters who I think are fascinating and fantastic and really interestingly done and then all the rest of the characters I'm just not that fussed about and I'm just not invested enough

Disliked

If you're really interested in this idea I recommend reading some extracts from self-help by Samuel Smiles which is not a very nice book at all and there's lots of bits where he talks about like people who aren't contributing to society