Alright, for those of you who do not know, YN has a book club! We started our first book and now is the time for discussion. Sometime in the next two days or so, I will post the next book selection up on the 'Randomosity' board in the 'Book Club' thread... If you are interested in joining the book club, Noisemail me, NickJ, and I will put you on the list for mailings...

So, our first book was Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Basically this is a forum for discussion on the book. So, I guess we can start with: What did everyone think of the book? And then we can go from there!

This book is my favourite of all time. For anyone who is interested in any type of government and raw political philosphy, it is a perfect book that makes you read between the lines to truly understand political and social porgression. Although fiction, it is one story amoung many of heros, fallen or otherwise. during perhaps the greatest moment in history, the French Revolution.

I absolutely LOVE this book!

A big salute to Charles Dickens!

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Alright, for those of you who do not know, YN has a book club! We started our first book and now is the time for discussion. Sometime in the next two days or so, I will post the next book selection up on the 'Randomosity' board in the 'Book Club' thread... If you are interested in joining the book club, Noisemail me, NickJ, and I will put you on the list for mailings...

So, our first book was Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Basically this is a forum for discussion on the book. So, I guess we can start with: What did everyone think of the book? And then we can go from there!

hey where do you sign up?

It was hard to understand for me too but I got myself some good old cliff-notes. I read the whole book and when I couldn't understand a chapter, I went to the cliff-notes.

It was confusing because there was a lot going on at once. The war, Lucy finding out she has a father, the father having this addiction to shoe-making because he went to jail, Charles having a bad rep. with that lady, I forgot her name, Madame something. It was just very overwhelming but that's life so it was totally cool.

I liked how everything played out in the end.

I think Lucy should have had more of a role because I felt like she was made to be this beauty, this angel. Come on, girls aren't that prefect and innocent. She was just not real to me, I don't know, yell at Charles or something.

I loved Sydney, it was so sad...

I'm not in the book club, yet, but thought I'd share my opinion anyways. I thought this book was great. I really like the way Dickens uses symbolization all throughout this book to represent things that were happening at the time, in other words the French Revolution. To better understand this book it's better to do some research on the time the book was written and what the book was written about.

I tried it, but couldn't get into it, so I stopped, and am now reading David Copperfield instead, which is really good.

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Yeah, it is kind of hard to get into but once you get in a ways it gets better, I think.

I agree, it took me awhile to get through the beginning but after I got into it I finished fairly quickly. Overall I really enjoyed the book.

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Darn, where's the rest of the club?

I was just thinking that, then I realized I hadn't posted yet either.

*pats GL on back and hands her a tissue*

There there, I'm sure they have a good reason.....that or they don't like us.

*starts tearing up and takes a tissue for herself*

They've deserted us. *sniff.* *sniff.* I'm even here and I've only read seven chappies.

Yeah, it is kind of hard to get into but once you get in a ways it gets better, I think.

Darn, where's the rest of the club?

I found it hard to get into, so I haven't finished it obviously. I will sometime. Continue your discussion, sorry.

I really liked it, even though it was kind of hard to follow at times. I especially like how Dickens ties all the characters together.

I was at camp for a week and had absolutly no time to read. I was exhausted. But I liked the first seven chapters that I read.

My computers is really running slow(the reason why I couldn't send you a e-mail), But would you mind signing me up for the YN Book Club. Thanks.