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February 01, 2006
Tale of Two Cities Part 1
As some of you know, I’m reading Charles Dickens’s book, A Tale of Two Cities for Literature this year. Ok, it was only a matter of time before I said this. That book is the hardest book in the world! Seriously. I didn’t think I would have that much trouble with it because I’m a good reader, I enjoy reading, even what most people would consider “hard”. Like Louis L’Amour, G. A. Henty and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But Dickens? No. Dickens, (to me) doesn’t seem to follow the logical trail of the Human Mind. For example. Earlier, I said I was reading Prophet. In a book like that, it is good when the reader is kept guessing. It’s a challenge as a writer to keep the reader guessing, but not clueless or disinterested to the point where he wants to put down the book. In Prophet, Peretti keeps the reader guessing, but not clueless or lost in the story. When the mind has a question about another character in the story, Peretti does an excellent job of answering the questions by switching back and forth between different characters and settings. Dickens however stays on one event or character for too long it seems. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t hate dickens. I’m just making some observations. Also, Dickens has this way of losing the reader, (or at least me) in the process of lengthy descriptions.Posted by Addison on February 1, 2006 08:45 PM
