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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Dickens' Tale of Two Cities. This is one I really should read but never have.
Arthur Koestler.
And a boatload of Soviet dissedent writers from Solzhenitsyn on down. I used to read them with fascination when the Soviet Union existed, but lost some interest when the novels become purely, or mostly, of historical interest.
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'A Tale of Two Cities' is damn near unreadable.
But then I think Dickens is almost as bad as Shakespeare who - as everyone ought to know - could not write dialogue.