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    I was dragged through A tale of two cities for my 'O' level, but I did not use that book for the exam. Again the films do have something plot and character wise. I may when in my dotage return to them.
    Peter is better able than me to de-clench or whatever it's called, but the use here of 'modern-children' makes it firmly the fault of Dickens and not that there is anything the matter with the children of today.

    I doubt whether any of the current tranche of children's novelists would admit to be less worthy or dumbed-down as opposed to CD.
    I think that if children are reading that is all for the best. I dread (still) the idea that just because he is long dead yet enjoying an anniversary this is reason enough to re-cram him down the throats of those (me) with other things to do, other things to read.

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