Just finished A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens and it [spoilers]just

I got about two thirds in and just dropped it desu

usually I finish books I don't like that much if I'm in far enough but this really was an exception

You're just not that smart.

>>9043039
I actually lack the self-awareness to process info like that and take it to heart, so the joke's on you dum dum

>>9043059

I'm not trying to hurt your feelings nor am i joking. When people complain of the best books written being not that good, which trust me if you go on goodreads you'll find hundreds of thousands of them who love to insult the best authors on a day to day basis and take a particular pride in the fact that they "see" through the book and the hype about the book and are one of the few to realize that oh my god this book is rubbish.

Not any of the posters criticising ATOTC but nicholas nickleby was also boring shit.

dickens wryly commenting on the characters was funny when it happened the first time. When it happened the next 50 times within the next two pages it was ok. When it happened ten trillion more times within the next 300 pages and the whole book could be summarised as "shit happens", I got bored as fuck.

but nvm, I'm sure I couldn't really see what was going on. I'm sure that Dickens was elucidating his theory of Quantum Chromodynamics as it was known at the time, and its compatibility with the Aether that was believed to exist. All while meditating on the existence of a just God in a world with multiple warring religions and the compatibility with free will. That's correct, right?

I dropped it after 20 pages

>>9043086
But mister, can you please say something of the merits of the book?

I haven't read any Dickens but what is his masterpiece and where do I start?

>>9042997
Some people just can't into Dickens writing style and that's fine.

>>9044020
>I haven't read any Dickens but what is his masterpiece and where do I start?
Dicken's would tell you it's David Copperfield. I'd say Bleak House or Great Expectations.

>>9042997
>It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Also thought the early-Victorian disgust with late-18th-century England was pretty interesting.

But yeah it wasn't that great. I can't even remember the names of any of the characters except Sidney Carton, although granted I read it like 15 years ago. I know he died to white knight for some married chick who probably had blonde hair, although I don't remember her name or that of her husband.

>>9043086
A Tale of Two Cities isn't one of the best books ever written, though. It's Dickens at his worst: verbose, sentimental, fixated on twee moralizing.

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>>9042997
>when the child gets run over by the marquis
rose of versailles did it better

>>9042997
I thought it was alright, up until the ending which was pretty great.

A lot of the appeal of a Dickens novel will be lost on todays readers, simply because his style, especially the way he does characters, has been so endlessly mimicked, to the point where it has just become part of how we write.

But you were too pleb to notice, I guess.