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100 Books Challenge for 2009 : cyderry - give it a try		219	cyderry, December 2
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Awful Lit. : Awful Classics?		558	chapterofaccidents, November 27
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What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 31, 2009?		201	teelgee, November 7
What the Dickens...? : Your favourite and why?		54	aluvalibri, November 5
Book talk : A Silly Book game - Part 13		300	justjim, November 2
Knitters Inc. : Knitting novels?		68	wolf_babe, October 20
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Author Chat : Susanne Alleyn, author of The Cavalier of the Apocalypse (Sep 14-25)		23	SusanneAlleyn, September 26
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : cameling's reading list for 2009		264	cameling, September 25
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What the Dickens...? : Your least favourite and why?		39	mikeepatrick, August 10
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Banned Books : vs. Required Reading		47	Amtep, August 1
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Historical Fiction : French Revolution Recommendations?		21	SusanneAlleyn, June 28
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The Green Dragon : Book Bucket List		95	BritAnnia, February 22
Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now - January 2009		174	MrAndrew, February 9
Historical Fiction : When Are You Now? (continued)		269	ophlia, February 8
List Five Books Parlour Game : the city mouse and the country mouse		16	vonitaburke, February 8
1001 Books to read before you die : What Book From the 1001 List are You Reading: January 2009		153	judylou, February 2
20-Something LibraryThingers : Books Read in High School English		40	TheOnlyMe, January 28
What Are You Reading Now? : What's the first book you're going to read in 2009?		76	callmejacx, January 11
Hogwarts Express : Game: "But I've never read . . ."		307	hemlokgang, January 6
Book talk : I can't read charles dickens books.		26	wednesdayschild, January 5
50 Book Challenge : well..maybe 50 books? *stonecoldfox edition*		73	stonecoldfoxonfire, January 3
75 Books Challenge for 2008 : The Chronicles of Wunderkind		206	TheTortoise, January 2
List Five Books Parlour Game : ABCs		122	mamalaz, January 1
Book talk : 999 Challenge: Jak's 999 Challenge		12	jak1886, December 2008
888 Challenge : Zero's 888		73	ReneeMarie, December 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today?--November 2008 #2		76	IaaS, December 2008
Book Nudgers : The Science of Nudging		58	A_musing, December 2008
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1001 Books to read before you die : Best 1001 Books Alphabetically		199	Nickelini, November 2008
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What Are You Reading Now? : Bookshelf Must-Haves		28	zapzap, October 2008
Book talk : One for each...what should I read?		5	Sandydog1, October 2008
The Green Dragon : All-Time Favorite Opening Lines		181	cupajoe, October 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? Sept 2008, part 3		233	MusicMom41, October 2008
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1001 Books to read before you die : Which of the 1001 are you currently reading?		344	hemlokgang, September 2008
Book talk : Fill in this historical fiction analogy		7	CatherineDelors, September 2008
Book talk : Your top 10 Classic Books		59	MusicMom41, September 2008
Group Reads - Literature : Classic Group Read: Bleak House: Chapters 1-7		38	billiejean, August 2008
Read YA Lit : Urban Fantasy		27	Rubbah, August 2008
Awful Lit. : Awful Classics, Part 2: Son of Awful Classics		188	Booksloth, August 2008
Anglophiles : 19th Century British Literature		41	Booksloth, August 2008
The Green Dragon : Rereading?		37	Busifer, August 2008
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... from The Count of Monte Cristo, the White Witch from The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and Madame Defarge from A Tale of Two Cities.

... for the time being. I hope it stays like that, because I remember having struggled with difficult and obscure passages in A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.

Just started A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

Ironweed by William Kennedy There's also a great scene near the beginning of A Tale of Two Cities - a barrel or cask of wine is spilled into the streets of Paris, where it is greedily drank of the ground by a frenzied crowd.

... others I CANNOT STAND Dickens. I found him to be one of the worst writers I have ever encountered. Although I must admit A Tale of Two Cities would be the exception. I don't think it has anything to do with attention spans or instant gratification. I think some people just don't like his ...

... US highschool history teacher/friend/neighbor who hadn't read it, I was VERY pleased with a small haul from Abe: 1066 & Paper cities for very reasonable prices and free shipping! and from another seller, took a flyer on Echenoz' I'm gone and a second book by Ekaterina Sedia the secret ...

... read about the French Revolution and the lead-up to the Napoleonic War in preparation for my read of Les Mis - plus read A Tale of Two Cities for the same reason; also to finish LoTR; also to finish Dorian Gray before my bookclub meeting next Tuesday; plus finish Unseen Academicals before ...

... or two ago. I highly recommend this book, my first by author Susanne Alleyn. It serves with elan as the back-story to A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and IMHO, out classes it by many a rustique kilometer. If interested in reading the review I posted it here: http://www.library ...

... it is doubtful whether their rays have even yet discovered it, as a point in space where anything is suffered or done." A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens "You remember the place my father? You remember coming up here?"

... ttp://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/wyhPHhH/counter.png"> I am very excited to start this challenge! =) Book 1. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens *Currently reading: Vivaldi's Virgins by Barbara Quick

... read this, you really should give it a try. Another of my favorites, although it falls into somewhat the same category as A Tale of Two Cities because of its relative brevity, is Hard Times. Many people who like Dickens don't care for it though. It reminds me, in a way, of The Mayor of Caste ...

Tale of Two Cities and the bit cliched answer: David Copperfield. I plan to read Little Dorrit soon because I loved the Masterpiece Theater. Little Dorrit had been on my list to read for some time before the adaptation. You know how some books sit on your mental list for some time. Little Dorr ...

Madam Defarge from The Tale of Two Cities her single mindedness and intent were uber-creepy.

Oh good, another thread where we can annoy people who enjoy the books we dislike :) Here's mine: Tale of Two Cities (or any Dickens) Crime and Punishment The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse (what, it's not a classic?) The Crying of Lot 49 A Confederacy of Dunces I ...

... fondness and enthusiasm. Want to read it again soon, but first A Far Better Rest. Can't wait to see how it jibes with A Tale of Two Cities, which is my favorite Dickens of all that I've read so far. :)

... and Huckleberry Finn were in junior high too, I think 6th or 7th grade. 9th grade was a lot of grammer. We read A Tale of Two Cities, Romeo and Juliet, A Farewell to Arms, and several others I don't remember. 10th grade we read the Steinbecks I mentioned, Their Eyes were Watch ...

... House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the whole series is great The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens These are a few which I fell in love with in my late teens. Also, finding memoirs and biographies of people who do things you are ...

#102 A TALE OF TWO CITIES Author : Charles Dickens Read : July 18-Aug 1 Category : Classics Pages : 544 Dickens style of comparing the opposites is the theme throughout this classic. His contrasts ...

... in the Land of Egypt, unless my ER shows up today, in which case I'll be starting that. I've also got to get going on A Tale of Two Cities which I borrowed from Holly, but I feel like reading two Dickens' at once might make my head explode, so I'm waiting until I finish Bleak House for ...

... you it could be done one-on-one or in small groups, but most high schools don't have the resources. I may still loathe A Tale of Two Cities after all these years, but I read and enjoy Dickens, among others, and get more out of fiction than I would have without this sort of instruction.

... to be. Had to read GE, David Copperfield and Bleakhouse for school and almost offed myself in the process. I did enjoy The Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol though.

I'm working on A Tale of Two Cities and will probably start Fingersmith soon.

I downloaded 100 free classics and now I always have something good to read on the kindle. Currently, reading A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House and Devil's Dictionary on the kindle. Also reading harry potter and the half-blood prince in hard copy before the movie comes out.

... finished Love's Labour's Lost, which was a very difficult play, I'm sure it'll need a rereading next year. I'm starting A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens. I have yet to find a book by him that doesn't bore me to death (I read Bleak House and thought the 2005 adaptation was infinitely ...

... finished Love's Labour's Lost, which was a very difficult play, I'm sure it'll need a rereading next year. I'm starting A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens. I have yet to find a book by him that doesn't bore me to death (I read Bleak House and thought the 2005 adaptation was infinitely ...

... rather play videogames. Now, while I didn't particularly care for Great Ex, the man has written such amazing stories as A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol that I've got to give him his propers. I'm not entirely sure that I'm going to go through most of his stuff, as I think some ...

... and listening to Bill Bryson. As for Dickens, I have a love-hate relationship with him. I loved A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities. I hated Oliver Twist. So far David Copperfield is slow going plot-wise, but I am enjoying it for the characters (especially his Aunt Trotwood, ...

Not all Dickens is created equal. I risk eviction from the Guild, I know, but I did once enjoy A Tale of Two Cities. But that's it. Bring on the hose - I'm ready. I'm going to comment on my next two books as a pair, as I read them back-to-back. Let the record show that despite a long-standing ...

I got a new toy (iPod Nano) and have been listening to my very first audio book ( Tale of Two Cities ). I read it a million years ago in high school, but thought it might we worth a re-read/listen.

... y... Nip the Buds sounds pretty harrowing - I think it'll be on my 'to be read when I'm feeling brave' pile, along with A Tale of Two Cities!

A Tale of Two Cities. Despite that opening line. It just didn't didn't seem as real, as closely observed or as clever as the other works I've read.

... Christie. I'm not sure about the Gothic romances since I didn't like Northanger Abbey or Jane Eyre. I've thought about A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo but I didn't want two from the same author. So I'm trying out The Innocence of Father Brown and Black Beauty. But ...

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Read in high school and at least once since then.

Okay, I finished A Tale of Two Cities. That took a lot longer than I wanted it to... Oh, well.... I did write one heck of a review for it, though! I am not sure what I want to read next...maybe some borrowed books I should return ;)

#113 FlossieT - I do own a copy of A Tale of Two Cities, but I just can't quite bring myself to read it. I'm sure I will one day, just not yet - I saw the black and white film adaptation and, with the exception of Jean de Florette (which is in a whole league of it's own), I have never cried so ...

>109 & >112: luna/fliss, sorry to say I loathe Dickens. Apart from A Tale of Two Cities, which I loved (and I think that was only because I'd seen a stage production first so had a sense of the plot arc), I just haven't ever been able to really get into the chunkier ones. It's not all ...

83. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens I've never been a Dickens fan. I loved A Tale of Two Cities, but I never managed to get to the end of any of the others until now. I found this book easier to read than I was expecting it to be, but still something of a slog in places. I can ...

I too have to say the Dickens is one of my favorites. I have read a great deal from A Christmas Carol thru A Tale of Two Cities and the longer works like Dombey and Son or Nicholas Nickelby and find them all very good. The Pickwick Papers sets the tone for so much of his work, that I ...

A tale of two Cities?

... was really great. I've already started someone whom I have never read before: Dickens. In this case, it is going to be The Tale of Two Cities. Fun fun.

I've had a very good quarter (though the last month has been less wonderful): A Tale of Two Cities Cry, the Beloved Country The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Kindred

... >Classics 1. Anna Karenina 2. Wuthering Heights 3. Jane Eyre 4. Clarissa 5. Tess of the D'Urbervilles 6. A Tale of Two Cities 7. Animal Farm 8. The Portrait of a Lady 9. Little Women

... But that unfinished feeling certainly applies to the extracts we have had a chance to read. I reread the opening of A Tale of two cities the other day and noted how Samples seems to have tried to emulate the writing there. But Dickens had it spot on, and Samples comes across as an ...

... is Bleak House although both Great Expectations and David Copperfield rate high marks from me also. I also think A Tale of Two Cities should be read--I enjoyed it but not as much as the other three. These four seem to me to be the "essential" Dickens (I'm assuming everyone knows A Ch ...

I'm beginning A Tale of Two Cities today, unabridged, the Lesser recording.

... not sure what to read next. Torn between The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, which my husband recently finished reading, A Tale of Two Cities, which a friend is currently reading, and Frankenstein, which is probably the gap in my science fiction reading I feel worst about. I suppose I ...

... by Anya Seton (Someday BC selection) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (continuing RGG side read) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (continuing RGG side read) The Terror by Dan Simmons (RGG side read) The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (MaryZorro's Pulitzer C ...

... eventually . . . and several that I've started and never finished. Or started repeatedly and never finished (that would be A Tale of Two Cities -- I know I would like it if I could just get in to it). And there may be some that I've read, but don't remember reading.

You might say dear Sidney Carton did in Tale of Two Cities. "Tis a far, far better thing I do...

Would you cast A Tale of Two Cities as fantasy? I think of it as regular fiction.

My first Dickens book was A Christmas Carol and I really loved it. My next one was A Tale of Two Cities which I also loved. I read that one for school. --BJ

... I too must add all the Dickens that I have yet to read, and then reread a few of my favorites, like Nicholas Nickelby and A Tale of Two Cities again.

... like to read Les Miserables in full, The Count of Monte Cristo, and more Charles Dickens while I'm at it, especially A Tale of Two Cities since I loved the abridged version in high school. I also plan to read Emma and have two versions of it, but it's my last Austen and I will mourn ...

I also want to read more Dickens. I adored David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities, but don't know what to pick up next.

... War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (a continuing RGG side read) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstory (a continuing RGG side read) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (RGG side read) Patty Jane's House of Curl by Lorna Landvik (RGG side read) The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane C ...

YAY! I get to do one! I've read The Borrowers Avenged, but I haven't read A Tale of Two Cities.

... I'm part of a book chain so the books are free and come on their own.) The Crossing hasn't come in at the library yet and A Tale of Two Cities has been pushed off to a mid-February start since most of the main book club is reading large novels this month which I declined to read at the time.

Hola Medellia A Tale of Two Cities will be a reread for me too. It was also a favorite of mine in high school. Some folks in one of my book clubs are reading it so I am taking the chance to revisit it.

... Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Up next will be A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs, which is a book club selection. I'm not sure how interested I am in ...

... I know... But (weakly) "Star Trek" referenced literature now and then, Khan quoting Milton, Spock giving Kirk a copy of A TALE OF TWO CITIES and-- Ah, fuck it, hypocrite I am. Wolff: two feet of snow in the past two days and a December that featured the coldest snap in 100 years so I ...

... reading three and they're all 1001 - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and re-reads for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and A Tale of Two Cities.

... his The Fallen Angels is my current read. Those revolutionary zealot scenes are not as tame as Charles Dickens and A Tale of Two Cities

... Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (finished 10/3/09) 7. Land’s Polaroid by Peter C. Wensberg 8. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 9. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (finished 9/10/09) 10. The Time Machine by H. G. W ...

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens Sin and the Second City, by Karen Abbott City of Light, by Lauren Belfer A Light in the Attic, by Shel Silverstein The Secret in the Old Attic, by Carolyn Keene

... chose for January. Currently reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle for the January 2008 Global Read (loving it so far), The Tale of Two Cities for RL classics book club, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for an on-line read-along. A great group of books to begin 2009 with.

... I've finished the two books I'm currently reading, I will begin The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for a read-along and The Tale of Two Cities for book club. I'll also be reading an unchosen book about Japan for the 2009 Global Read.

The beginning of Tale of two cities must be a strong contender for the most overrated tripe in the history of literature.

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

... 4 5. For Whom the Bell Tolls 6. The Grapes of Wrath 7. Watership Down 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 9. A Tale of Two Cities

I rarely leave a book unfinished, but i couldn't get much past the first few pages of Tale of Two Cities. I actually gave the book away.

I've read A Tale of Two Cities but I've never read Oliver Twist

This week's buys were Reading Lolita in Tehran and A Tale of Two Cities. I'm going to try not to buy anymore books until after Christmas (we'll see how long this resolution lasts...).

I've read A Tale of Two Cities and like it less than other Dickens novels I've read. My favorite so far is Great Expectations. But I haven't read Jazz.

I've read The Eyre Affair, But I've never read A Tale of Two Cities. (I keep meaning to!)

... won't enjoy, but you kind of have to read for your general moral and social education." Most of Dickens (apart from A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and Edwin Drood) would fit into this category for me.

From the library: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (LT recommendation). From book stores: Tale of Two Cities and Wesley the Owl.

... meant that I would have had more than an hour wasted on the train in the evening. Well, naturally, I went out and bought Tale of Two Cities, which is my January Classics Book Club read. Then, on the way home I stopped by Borders and picked up Wesley the Owl and immediately began reading ...

Love in Winter by Storm Jameson The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Take Two at Bedtime by Margery Allingham Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis

... - A Farewell to Arms. I'd always thought Hemingway a little too macho, but this one dispelled that idea. Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities. I really don't like Dickens, but this one was pretty good. I'll leave the others for others.

... my chick books to keep for those moments I feel like a chick book. Others are: The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe, A Tale of Two Cities and an annotated copy of Thucydides Peloponnesian War (political science major).

Today Books: 5 French Masters 5 Russian Masters 5 Indian Masters 5 American Masters the last TS is wonky.

... I'm in a string of audiobooks as I've been traveling a bit and love to hear certain readers. I couldn't get past page 1 of A Tale of Two Cities until I heard a lovely recording recently. I loved the character of Jane Eyre-much more so than Catherine Wuthering Heights. Even Anna Karenina ...

... through high school and college without reading any. Do I start with one of the "classics" like Great Expectations or Tale of Two Cities or should I do something I little less "High School English" and go with Bleak House or Martin Chuzzlewit. I'm open to any suggestions! Edited ...

... Well, I finally finished the first 7 chapters of Bleak House. Yea!! The only other Dickens book that I have read is A Tale of Two Cities, which I read in high school and loved. This book is totally different, but I am really enjoying it, too. I like the legal aspect of the book. When I ...

Wuthering Heights A Tale of Two Cities The Three Musketeers The Scarlet Pimpernel Scaramouche The Virginian Little Women The Odyssey

#25 Ever tried Steampunk by Ann Vandermeer? Maybe you'll like it if you liked paper cities

... to him, and in my opinion, those selected stories were enough to make a child despair of life. However, I did pick up A Tale of Two Cities and read it. Completely loved it and decided to give Dickens another shot. I'm glad I did, because for the most part, I've found his stories uplifting. ...

High school English anecdote: In ninth grade we had to read A Tale of Two Cities. I loved it, but I was the only person who did (and also the only person who didn't use Cliff Notes). One girl, frustrated, decided to read every other page. So, the righthand pages she read, and the lefthand, ...

... Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles The Famished Road by Ben Okri A Tale of 2 Cities by Charles Dickens A Room With a View by E.M. Forster Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

A Tale of Two Cities perhaps.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." The Tale of Two Cities

A long time ago, I read and enjoyed A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens.

... at any rate, here are some relatively short classics that I love: Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion by Jane Austen A Tale of 2 Cities by Charles Dickens Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, and Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger A Room With a View by E.M. Forster The Great Gatsby ...

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Dixie City Jam by James Lee Burke Our Town by Thornton Wilder An Irish Country Kitchen by Clare Connery The Country Wife by William Wycherley

... Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion by Jane Austen A Room With a View by E.M. Forster A Tale of 2 Cities by Charles Dickens

... by William Shakespeare Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Crucible by Arthur Miller ...

... by William Shakespeare Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Crucible by Arthur Miller ...

... (Great Expectations, David Copperfield, or Oliver Twist) just yet as I know what happens and the (very old) film of The Tale of Two Cities had me in such floods of tears (for the 'tis a far, far better thing that I do now...' bloke, not the love's young dream) that it's going to take me ...

... Strout (a collection of stories centered around one woman, set in Maine, PW gave it a great review) From the library: A New England Tale by Catharie Maria Sedgwick

... by Charles Dickens ** 2. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James **** 3. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ****½ 4. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens **½ 5. Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy **** 6. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell **** 7. The Tenent of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bro ...

... orld. As for classics, have you read Jane Austen? You can't go wrong with anything she's written, in my opinion. I see A Tale of 2 Cities in your list--it was my favorite book in my senior year of high school (and continues to be one of my all-time faves). Enjoy your reading! Your list ...

Just the six from Foyles today A Tale of 2 Cities by Charles Dickens Werewolves in their Youth by Michael Chabon Selected Stories by Rudyard Kipling How we are Hungry by Dave Eggers Drown by Junot Diaz Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

... of their South Bank branch with... Werewolves in their Youth by Michael Chabon Fingersmith by Sarah Waters A tale of 2 cities by Charles Dickens How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers Drown by Junot Diaz Selected Stories by Rudyard Kipling

You guys are great . . . and fast! I see two votes for the Tale of Two Cities, so I think that I'll tackle that one next because I went out of my way to buy it, and I've started it twice. Nicholas Nickleby I got for free, so I haven't invested anything in it yet. I'll put it second on the ...

Either Nicholas Nickleby or The Tale of Two Cities.

... something shorter than Bleak House, and I already own Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby and The Tale of Two Cities. Which one of these would be a good follow up to Bleak House?

... and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami Straight Man by Richard Russo The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter A Tale of 2 Cities by Charles Dickens (Oh, there are more...)

... myself, so I'm afraid I don't have anything to offer in terms of non-fiction. But if you're going to do Dickens, I suggest A Tale of 2 Cities. (I had to use the Arabic numeral to get the touchstone to work--strange.) Great Expectations has more critical acclaim, but "A Tale of Two Cities ...

... the need. Drat! Too slow. I have *lots* of ideas of what school children should read, but my sons never did care for The Tale of Two Cities or Jane Eyre. TPBM also likes alternate history stories.

>8 I echo your choice from Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. and looking at the first and last words of A Tale of 2 Cities makes me want to dive into it now. Hmmm....the numeral seems to trigger the touchstone for ATof2C but the citation uses the word.

... Gloss 43. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester 44. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens 45. The Master Butchers Singing Club: A Novel (Erdrich, Louise) by Louise Erdich 46. Black Swan Gree ...

jmskone & sandy ~ I read Tale of Two Cities many years ago at school and didn't care for it much. I was 11 and it was just too much! I read Great Expectations in about 1990 and then didn't read any more Dickens after that...until I discovered LT this year and esp. the 'What the Dickens' Group ...

... new Dickens favourite :) As far as owning up goes, I'm not ashamed to admit that until earlier this year I'd only read Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. After joining LT (and this group in particular) I got motivated to read David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby and most ...

... A Christmas Carol is a suggested potential combination. A Christmas Carol is also a suggested potential combination for A Tale of Two Cities. Why?

Madame Defarge , Tale of Two Cities

... I'd have to admit to Jamie Fraser from the Outlander series being one character I'd definitely stalk. Sydney Carton of Tale of Two Cities (always pictured as Dirk Bogard of course), "Tis a far far better thing..." Adam Dalgliesh from P.D. James' books.

>36 I discovered lots of multiples too. I had four copies of A Tale of Two Cities and I don't remember ever reading it! I am sure I was required too, but a lot of the reading I was required to do I never did.......too many other interesting things to read!

... way through it. Doctor Zhivago is the one I'm reading now, inspired by some of Miriam's comments and my recollection of A Tale of Two Cities. I wanted to compare these, because both relate to bloody revolutions that began in an idealistic fervor to remake society for the better, and both led ...

... issued over the years for various classic literature stories where the same ISBN was noted for each book, story etc. See A tale of two cities book info page to see what I mean: ie, this page http://www.librarything.com/work-info/17728 note the long list of suggested 'potential' ...

A Tale of Two Cities is a great work -- in stretches. But Lucy Manette is one of the greatest bores ever committed to paper. She has only two attributes : she is blonde and she is Good. Sydney Carton, on the other hand, is interesting, when he isn't falling all over himself about the Goodness ...

Charles Dickens? How can you not like Dickens? A Tale of Two Cities is one of my favorite works. Faulkner on the other hand? blech!

... to be The Riddle-Master's Game trilogy, I got through it but was very disappointed. Oh, and I've been trying to read A Tale of two Cities since about 1999... Edited to add: Fingersmith was truly awful, far too gratuitous. The Cement Garden was disgusting and I never got the point ...

I have to teach A Separate Peace every year to my sophomores. The first time I read it I thought, it's okay, nice enough I guess. I absolutely hate it now. It gets worse every year. I'm not really sure why. There just doesn't seem to be any real substance to it and it seems cruel to be ...

Paola - glad you liked the Gaskell. Ashamed to say the only Dickens I have read is A Tale of Two Cities which was great - must rectify that one.

I had to do a whole project on A Tale of Two Cities in high school (longer ago that I would like to admit at this point) and I remember LOVING that book. I have never gone on to read more Dickens, but I would love to re-read this one and see how my impressions have changed. I wish you luck with ...

... thread). I've also been horrified to see some of my favourites here - like Jane Eyre, Crime and Punishment, and A Tale of Two Cities *gasp*! I'd have to say the classics I've most hated have been the ones with the best press - the ones everyone else seems to rave about. Anna Karen ...

75. Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie - Holly Black Overall, I didn't really like this book, not completely sure why. I liked the sword fighting lessons, and the end, but most of the content just didn't appeal to me. Valerie runs away from home after seeing her mom "getting it on" with ...

Finished A Tale of Two Cities last night. I had forgotten about the irony of the doctor's letter. I couldn't remember whether it was real or a fabrication by the DeFarges, but he didn't disown it. Pross' bravery is impressive. I've been reading The Telling in bits and pieces, but now it ...

I'm still working my way through A Tale of Two Cities. I keep a paperback in the car to read if I end up having lunch out by myself, or waiting for an appointment, and I've just started Ursula LeGuin's The Telling, which reminds me of some of her other Hainish books but has a more assured ...

Coloradogirl14- I personally love A Tale of Two Cities and Im really trying to reread it myself, but Im having trouble getting into it. I just thought I would add my two cents in about that. Currently reading Northanger Abbey and I love it so far. Its my first Jane Austen book and it ...

As many of you already know, I'm still making my way through A Tale of Two Cities, but it's becoming an easier read the farther I get. In the meantime, though, I'm also reading State of Fear by Michael Crichton, which seems to be shaping into a fairly interesting read. I'll have to see how it ...

#105 ~ I know a lot of LTers don't like A Tale of Two Cities, but I remember that I really enjoyed it when I read it years ago and am now thinking of re-reading it just to see if I still feel the same way.

... validity in the related answer "youth". Certainly there are precocious youths who appreciate Dickens, but even when I read A Tale of Two Cities in my early 20s, I appreciated it much more for the plot than for the language. Now that I'm in my 40s and nearing completion of the Dickens canon, I ...

... I figured it would be a good idea for me to read a couple classics that my school has NOT yet ruined for me! I picked up A Tale of Two Cities because I haven't had much exposure to Dickens and my friend, who is a Dickens freak, highly recommended it.

... The Lions of al-Rassan, also a later book and set loosely in the same world as the sarantium pair. I, too, am reading A Tale of Two Cities, coloradogirl14, because I've been reading a lot of modern stuff and wanted to go back and do something different (and I haven't quite steeled myself ...

#69 eba1999 I think I'll read A Tale of Two Cities mostly in study hall because I really don't have anything left to do in school until graduation...I'm sure I'll get plenty of reading in that way! lol I'm surprised you didn't like State of Fear. I haven't read it yet, but my dad and ...

#60--Colorado Girl, sorry to hear that you haven't been able to make it through one of my fave's, Tale of Two Cities. I think I've read that one five or six times since high school. Of course, I'm a hundred now, so that means I only read it once every 20 years or so. The last Crichton I ...

I keep getting sidetracked with A Tale of Two Cities, but I WILL finish it eventually! In the meantime though, I'm reading Prey by Michael Crichton. I'm only 100 pages into it or so, but if you want a book that IMMEDIATELY grabs your attention, pick it up. Whether or not the ending will be ...

Currently finishing Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and I just started A Tale of Two Cities. No clue what's coming up after that.

forty signs of rain three dialogues between hylas and philonous a tale of two cities fifty readings in philosophy the three pillars of zen

... Baby, I am currently reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and The Stepford Wives, and I plan on reading A Tale of Two Cities next. I also have The Regulators, Prey (Michael Crichton), and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince to get through as well! *phew*

... by Phillip K. Dick Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

I'm still making my way through Dracula (over halfway done!), but I went to the library yesterday and picked up A Tale of Two Cities, Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, and The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin...I also put this book on hold that's called something like The Making of Star Wars. It's ...

A Tale of two cities London fields Amsterdam Down and out in paris and London and awful i know .... Complicity

I was forced to read A Tale of Two Cities in the 11th grade. Thanks to a change in school systems, I did not have to read Great Expectations in high school. I’ve tried reading Dickens on my own several times, but end up putting them down for one reason or another and never picking them ...

... yet, but it's definitely on my reading list, along with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (anyone want to comment on that one?), A Tale of Two Cities, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, and some of Mark Twain's novels. So many books to get through and so little time!

... A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings as his favorite holiday tales involved ghosts and goblins. Then move to A Tale of Two Cities before tackling his longer works. One of King's influences is Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Wa ...

My friend's given me the same suggestions in regards to A Tale of Two Cities and Margaret Atwood...I belive she recommended A Handmaid's Tale to me. Once I read Dracula (I'm ashamed that I still haven't finished that one!), I'll definitely look into these! Thanks!

... For example, if you search for "Tale Two Cities leather", you get 21 hits--7 of which are for Easton Press editions of A Tale of Two Cities (compared with 729 hits when you search for "Tale Two Cities"). In many cases, it's actually easier than entering an ISBN.

... well as loads of short stories with strong horror themes The Cone is one that comes to mind. For 'Classic' classics try-A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens or An Eye For an Eye by Anthony Trollope or in the modern classic field some of the books of Margaret Atwood or Angel ...

... is pretty good. Some great imagery at Miss Havisham's house. This is my first Charles Dickens since school reading of A tale of Two Cities, which I liked.

A Tale Of Two Cities "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." The Crow Road "It was the day my grandmother exploded".

I am reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. It is my first Dickens since we read A Tale of Two Cities out loud in the class room in 7th grade. It is too early to tell yet whether I like it or not.

... Stalin) had ended up in the ascendant. Perhaps considerably, or perhaps not at all? I am going to reread Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. It occurred to me these would make interesting comparisons. I have read both, but too many years ago to compare ...

... Expectations not that long ago, don't remember a whole lot of detail, but I know it didn't make quite the impression that A Tale of Two Cities did. I think that has more to do with the dramatic ending to Two Cities than anything else. I'm a sucker for a good dramatic ending. And the only ...

For some reason, I can never get into Dickens. I've tried both A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield and abandoned both, I think because they're just too dense. Ordinarily I hate abridged versions, but do you think I should try one and see if that gets me past my Dickens-phobia?

Little Women, The Secret Garden, A tale of Two Cities, The Story Girl, The Hobbit and any thing by C. S. Lewis should be good, but I think I would read Eragon.

I know bmjaspers I starting The Pickwick Papers, and I completely loved A Tale of Two Cities, so I figured there might be some interest in the great and honorable Mr. Dickens. By the way, if anyone else wants to start a topic or two for their interest(s), don't be shy!

Mrs Lee, #8, I vividly remember the knitting scene form A Tale of Two Cities and, although it's been about 40 years since I read it, remains the only book whose first and last lines I can remember!

For me, A Tale of Two Cities is vivid. Those women knitting at the guillotines, the wine spilling in the street, Dr. Manette locked in the prison, later recovering his sanity mending shoes, Sydney Carton in his tortuous mind and at the end finding peace by his sacrifice.

I've only read "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations," though I own a few more. I love Dickens. His plot lines sometimes have some silly coincidences, but practically every page is witty and sparkling. I'm amazed at how he can describe so much in so few words, and make it funny all ...

ditto on a tale of two cities and 1984 other faves... "i am an invisible man." ralph ellison, invisible man "that's good thinking there, CoolBreeze." tom wolfe, the electric kool-aid acid test and while i could hardly insert the whole thing here, since i'm not sure ...

... I generally like Dickens, but I have never liked Great Expectations so I hope you don't use it as the final test case. A Tale of Two Cities is a great swashbuckling sort of book and my own favorite is Bleak House.

My least favourite was A Tale of Two Cities (unabridged) purely because we were forced to read it at school. I was in first year high school (aged 12) and it was the first book we did in English and the teacher was the grumpy headmistress ;P I didn't understand most of it and hid at the back of ...

Knew someone would post A Tale of Two Cities. :) This is more of a paraphrase, but: Based on a true story. Only the most incredible parts are true. The Ghost and the Darkness I like this because dialogue and the like is likely to be forgotten exactly, but the most amazing parts are ...

... noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

... by Françoise Chandernagor very good, serious, but light reading. On Revolution l'enfant des lumières (same author), A Tale of Two Cities

War and Peace is one of those ones I feel I must read, as well as A Tale of Two Cities. And {Anna Karenina. For the first two, I've gotten only a couple of pages in, and then told myself "I'll do this when I can concentrate more." That, however, is not improving with the years. ;) One of my ...

... but the only one that is really jumping to mind just this moment is The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. I loved Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens but it's been so long since I've read it that I'm not sure I can put it on a top ten 'indispensible' list. North and South by John ...

... Miss Alethea Darcy, and The true Darcy spirit by Elizabeth Aston A far better rest by Susanne Alleyn, after A tale of two cities.

... POV) + The Second Mrs. DeWinter (from du Maurier's Rebecca, not sure who wrote it) + Evremonde by ?? (from A Tale of Two Cities)

Towards Zero As One Dead A Tale of Two Cities or Second Foundation Three Musketeers Big Four The Quintessential World of Darkness Rainbow Six The Seven Deadlies or The Seventh Gate And Then There Were None aka ten little indians A Dozen Black Roses The Thirteen P ...

... class. His style just isn't to my personal taste. I also didn't need to have read Dickens to appreciate the lines from A Tale of Two Cities in Star Trek. I read because I ENJOY reading good stories and learning new things. Not having read certain books and having no desire to do so doesn' ...

richardderus: I like both Dicken's and Hugo, equally different :) A Tale of Two Cities is right up there with Les Mis. for me. Sydney Carton is right beside Jean Valjean. That being said, I can see why not all would feel this way, just as some wouldn't be able to take either book because of all ...

# richardderus A tale of two cities was forced upon this reader at the age of 12 or 13, which suggests no-one should ever be forced to read something they dislike. (See Daniel Pennac's Rights of the reader. Try this link for a quick overview : http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/News/Walker- ...

... is like a fish without a bicycle" school of thought. I expressed my disdain for Sydney Carton's characterization in A Tale of Two Cities in the Most Bungled Endings thread. Javert from Les Miserables gets no such heaping of scorn because his character is well realized. A side note.. ...

My then seventeen-year-old self absolutely hated A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Sure, classics are often great works but unfortunately do little do inspire or motivate young adults of today.

... find the way it was used in the movie Conspiracy Theory particularly amusing. Had the "unfortunate opportunity" to cover Tale of Two Cities twice in high school English classes... the second time yielded a paper deriding the brutal and unsubtle use of foreshadowing (it was, after all, written ...

... books whose first lines I remember, if not verbatum, at least mostly; Rebecca, "Last night I dreamed I was at Manderly.", A Tale of Two Cities, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.", and The Documents in the Case, "Oh, damn!". #6 SamHouston, I wonder if age has anything ...

#28, oh richarddadderus, you don't want to know how many years ago I read A Tale of Two Cities! Just because I remember the beginning and the ending sentences doesn't mean I remember what happened in between (except for Mme. Defarge knitting)! I would have to read it again before reading ...

... Trade by Charles Stross is very good. My current bus read is A Far Better Rest by Susanne Alleyn...it's A Tale of Two Cities told from Sydney Carton's POV. Over in the "Most Bungled Endings" opinion thread, I opined that the end of that Dickens novel was awful. It set ...

... have you encountered A Far Better Rest yet? One of my sisters sent it to me a few years back, knowing of my distaste for A Tale of Two Cities and wanting me to experience the same plot but from Sydney Carton's POV. I had forgotten I owned the book, and thanks to this discussion, have dug ...

#13, about A Tale of Two Cities. It's a long (really long) time since I read it, but it has the distinction of being the only book whose first and last lines I know by heart.

... London and the other male authors of his time. Leaves me flat. I know, literary giants. They still leave me flat. Now, A Tale of Two Cities had me sobbing in an inspired way, so go figure.

... you want to urp? I think here of Charles Dickens and his "'Tis a far, far better thing I do..." junk at the end of A Tale of Two Cities. Shut up, Sydney!

... I was too young, but I don't think I'll be giving it another chance any time soon. The only other Dickens I've read is A Tale of Two Cities and I adore it. But then, I like anything that has to do with the French Revolution. I never read Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but I listened to most ...

... you can learn about people's characters and personalities from what they answer. I really relate to Sydney Carton from A Tale of Two Cities. When I'm in a depressed mood, anyway. I also really relate to Faramir from The Lord of the Rings—the way he's always being compared to his ...

... amount of attention which means I can't answer because I avoided him a every opportunity. I do remember reading Tale of Two Cities when I was quite young and enjoying it, but I suspect that may have been a child's abridged version or something. Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure ...

I know personally, i have a difficult time not finishing a book for whatever the reason. but i had to recently read A Tale of Two Cities for a class, and absolutely hated the act of reading it. I pulled myself through it, and in the end, i decided that it wasn't quite the waste of time i had ...

... unrepresentative of my primary reading tastes. Alternatively, if someone else catalogues that they own a Penguin issue of "A Tale of Two Cities" because they had to read it in high school, what exactly does the correlation between his library and mine (because I own the WBR edition) really tell ...

Knitting features prominently in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, but it's a bit of a sinister portrayal to please a fiber-arts crowd! Also, Mrs. Ramsay is knitting a pair of stockings throughout the first half of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.

... totally different, I read Paddington Abroad yesterday. Now I'm contemplating my TBR pile. I was thinking about A Tale of Two Cities but I think I'm not quite in the right frame of mind for Dickens!

... Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles Queens Play is set in France and can easily be read as a stand alone. Don't forget A Tale of Two Cities or The Scarlet Pimpernel. More recently Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy has large chunks set in France.

... about the third try, but that was because we were in Japan and books in English were scarce. I like the story behind Tale of Two Cities so I'll will give that a try again someday, but generally I find Dickens too wordy and bleak.

... for those from all different species who are suffering from amorous difficulties. Meanwhile I have just started to reread A Tale of Two Cities for a Dickens reading group, and am already groaning over my high school underlining (I haven't read it since). A friend just sent me Paul Auster's ...

... with a story line that sounded really interesting but I wasn't in the mood for at the moment. Lord of the Rings and A Tale of Two Cities are a couple that I've started several times but never finished. I'll try them again in a few years.

A Tale of Two Cities boring? Gasp! I used to pretend to be Sidney Carton on my way to the guillotine...suffused with tragic heroism; head held high. 'Course twelve year old girls like that sort of thing...

... good - gosh, I might just have to order that one too!! I've always been a fan of French Revolution stories since reading Tale of Two Cities

... WOW! You mean besides the first Playboy I saw? Hmmm. :) Here are a few: Joseph Conrad Victory Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Frank Herbert Dune Carl Sagan The Demon Haunted World John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany Shakespeare Macbeth Julius Caesar Elaine Pagels ...

I do love Jane Austen and read her books over and over, but I know she's not for everyone. Love Dickens, but I think A Tale of Two Cities is weak and not representative of his abilities. Didn't like Great Expectations in high school; read it again 20 years later and loved it--I think teaching Di ...

... once told my class that when Dickens wrote the serials he was paid by the word. Feels like it every time I decide to give A Tale of Two Cities another go.

... it. He also loved Beowulf which he read the same summer. Maybe he's weird. Maybe he was switched at birth. I liked A Tale of Two Cities but probably not enough to have chosen it if it weren't required reading.

Perilous limb to step on here... Dickens "Classic" A Tale of Two Cities was a bore and a waste of paper to me.

... reading several I would never have thought to buy: Shalimar the Clown, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, and Crome Yellow. In every case I bought the book midway through. Last year I went through a handful of Teaching Company courses, which I liked ...