A Tale of Two Cities

[Robin]

Did anybody else have to read that/read it because they wanted to? I had to read it for my 'honors' English class, and I kind of liked it. I hated the ending, though. Sidney was the best character ever. I loved him. I wanted to marry him. I wanted to have his babies, and he had to go and sacrifice himself for that pompous prick Darnay. Stupid Lucie. I hope she went home and slit her wrists because she let him get away with it.

Uhhhh. Now that that's out of my system...what did everybody like about that book? As is kind of obvious, my favorite part was Sidney (except him pulling a switcharoo), but I also liked the Crunchers and Madame Defarge. Everybody was completely misinterpreting Madame Defarge. They're like "she's bloodthirsty and ruthless," but forgetting the whole point about her: she's a spider. She wants blood, yeah, but she'll wait until the time is right to get it. If anybody was bloodthirsty and violent, it was her husband. He was whining like a little kid about how slow the Revolution was. Ahhhh. Makes me want to tear my hair out. All the awesome characters get played down or killed.

And did anybody else thing Darnay was a Mary Sue? "Oh noes, I'm the heir to a large fortune, but I don't want that dirty money. Boohoo, boohoo, my wife is so hot and I get to hump her every night while Carton turns his liver into a pickle, but my life totally sucks worse than anybody else's." Well, I'm exaggerating, but if you've read the book you'll get my drift.

[Pseudomuse]

Hahah I love your sueish Darnay, he is totally a sue. I wanted to ring his neck after the first page. Sidney was my favorite character. Lucie pissed me off.

I liked the book, but it's not one of my favorites of Dickens. We had this whole joke in school, because we had a sub, "The Owl Lady" who knitted just like Madame Defarge, and everytime we saw her we would whisper, "Ahhh, its Defarge, she's out to get us."

But again, not my favorite, but I would go as far as saying I hated it.

[Robin]

Sidney was the roxor.

I liked Madame Defarge. I think it sort of sucked how Miss Pross killed her.

We didn't have that many jokes about it in my class. We just sat there and laughed about the laying of heads upon pillows paragraph over and over again.