Review: A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens

Dickens is another of those Great Authors I've never enjoyed, a fact which I blame entirely on our public education system. Being made to read Great Expectations when I was 13 only taught me to hate Dickens. I still haven't finished that book.

In fact, this is only the second Dickens book I've finished, and it was ... okay. The device of using one family to explore and compare London and Paris during the French Revolution is a good one, and both it and the rest of the book are done well. As with Shakespeare, though, I can't see why he's so highly thought of. I don't recommend it, but that's probably my fault.