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Originally Posted by MickiTee
The worst book I've ever read has to be A Tale of Two Cities, which we had to read at school. Its left me with an abiding hatred of all ADULT English classics especially Dickens. I can't even watch adaptations on TV.
On the other had school reading lists left me with a love of JRR Tolkien and Shakespeare's plays.
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I've never understood how Dickens made it into the literary cannon. He writes simple cartoon characters - Have you ever met someone so one sidedly greedy like Ebenezer Scrooge? Sidney Carton was a cartoon that only had one way to redeem himself, and he followed that formula... There was no surprise there. No profound lessons. Just a cartoon following a formula. Why do people consider him so brilliant?