I agree with other readers that 'A Tale of Two Cities' is a bit of a slog, but the plot is incredible and worth the effort. This inexpensive Wordsworth Classics edition kindly warns the reader not to read the introduction so as not to ruin the book's surprises; I appreciated this advice because I indeed did not know anything about the plot (I rarely read the academic intros to books for this very reason). However, one of the end notes gave away the big surprise of the plot about 2/3 through the book! Also, the end notes have incorrect page numbers. Overall I'd say skip the notes and use Google or Wikipedia to look up anything that you find overly confusing (I looked up several historical… Read more
I thought the plot was pretty interesting, but the writing was so abyssmal and slow that I couldn't stick with it---I skipped to the end to find out all the twists, thus spending about 1/2 hour total with this book, which was about right. Too much excellent reading out there to spend any more time than that.
