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LisaM

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29. A Tale of Two Cities.

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Sun Jan 19, 2025, 11:41 PM

Jan 19

I haven't read it before and it was sitting on the shelf, so I thought, why not? It's kind of cartoonish, and you can tell Dickens was being paid by the word, but it's finally beginning to pick up steam about halfway through. I have read other books by Dickens, but the prose in this one seems a bit (purposefully) obtuse. Then again, it was also serialized, so I guess leaving readers hanging was part of the point.

I'll be glad to finish it, but also glad to have finally read it!

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