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So this week, I just want to say that I finished a tale of two cities, and it was absolutely

fantastic. And I'd like to double up on my recommendation. Many of the events that

we've talked about so far in the show are brilliantly dramatized. The follow of the

best deal, the chaos of the great fear, and then of course the looming reign of terror.

Now Dickens was writing with Thomas Carlyles, rather odd poem history of the French Revolution

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