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Title: Alright, but could be better
Review: I had to read this for honors freshman English, and now my AP English class is considering reading it again for whatever unGodly reason. In classical Dickens style, Chuck makes a good social commentary or stirs some good emotions, yet does it way too slowly. The plot speeds and dies down, goes somewhere sometimes and goes nowhere even faster more often, and brings up characters who have no real purpose. Dickens is accused of being "wordy," and I see why: British authors were often paid by the word and length of their novels and short stories. No wonder so-called classics like "Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations" is heaped in a drudgery of fluff.
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