A Tale of Two Cities

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In Today's Fast Paced World, We Like to Take Shortcuts. Please Don't Take a Shortcut. Read the Book. The Movie Does Not Do Justice to the Storyline. The Only Way to Impart the Feelings of This Book, is to Read This Book. If Charles Dickens Were a Playwright, I'm Sure He Would have Written Some Magnificent Plays, But His Works Were Meant to be Read Not Visualized on the Screen. A Great Deal is Lost. It Likens Me Back to When I Saw The Exorcist. Everyone Said how Horrifying the Movie Was and How it Would Change Your Entire Belief System. I Went and Saw it and Nothing. I Didn't Even Think it Was That Good of a Movie, not Even One I'd Want to Watch Twice. A Few Years Later, at a Friends Urging I Read the Book. A Damned Good Book. Goose Bumps Ran Up Me. The Book Was Completely Different From the Movie. The Book Made Sense. The Movie Was Hollywood. Lesson Learned. Always Read the Book First. You Might Avoid Some Unnecessary Disappointment. A Tale of Two Cities Was Written By English Author Charles Dickens (1812-1870. Dickens Received Most of the Background on the French Revolution From his Friend Thomas Carlyle. This is a Long Book, But Because it is So Gripping, it Does Hold Your Attention For Long Periods of Time. You'll Find Yourself Not Wanting To Put It Down. The Characters and Lives are All Intertwined and it Adds a Depth and Richness to the Book. This is a Historical Fiction that Spans nearly 20 Years From the Time Preceding and During the French Revolution. The Two Cities to Speak Of, Are London and Paris. The Main Storyline Characters Involve: Miss Lucie Manette (Main Character) "Spoiler Alert" (She Falls in Love and Marries Charles Darney) Doctor Alexandre Manette (Lucie's Father) "Spoiler Alert" "She Thought He Was Dead. Nope!!! He Was In Prison For 18 Years" Miss Pross (Lucie's Governess) Mr. Lorry (Dr. Manette’s Associate) Mr. Ernest Defarge (Dr. Manette's Former Servant) Mr. Charles Darney (Kidnapped French Aristocrat) "Spoiler Alert" "Abducted and Stashe...