Sure, it’s the best of times and the worst of times, that much is obvious, but the two cities aren’t. There’s also a four-part BBC adaption available on Prime, but 155 minutes was all I wanted to bother with. Thus, I wanted some background on the story, and Amazon Prime came to the rescue. But Kendra has this crazy idea that we should invade the SF Bay Area’s Dickens Christmas Fair wearing 18th-century costume because A Tale of Two Cities seems to be the only Dickens’ work they leave out of the event. So it’s no shocker that I hadn’t seen this 1980 adaption of A Tale of Two Cities, though it’s a little surprising that this is one of the few Dickens books I wasn’t forced to read in grad school (where I had an especially Dick-obsessed professor). New readers should be made aware that, despite my lifelong study of Victorian literature, I rather dislike the works of Charles Dickens.
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