Wednesday, May 26, 2010

A Tale of Two Cities vs. Under the Dome

It looks like Amazon will only give me one link per post, either that or I haven't figured it all out yet.

Anyway I think I'm going to give up on A Tale of Two Cities. I'm already on page 100 and I haven't been sucked in yet. That's usually my limit on a book. If it's not good by page 100 then it's not going to be good. But this is Dickens. Shouldn't there be a special rule for him? This is supposed to be a classic, but is it the best of Dickens? I read the first few chapters of Oliver Twist a few weeks ago and it seemed far more interesting than this one.

Making things harder is the fact that my name finally came up on the waiting list at the library for Under The Dome by Stephen King. There is no way I can read both A Tale of Two Cities and this 1100 page monstrosity. The library only gives you 2 weeks on the new books. So I've got to get cracking on this one. And you know what, it's already got me sucked in on page 10. That's Stephen King for you. Sorry Mr. Dickens. You lose.

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