Let's Start with the Title

I'm just not getting it.  And I'm going to be brave and voice all my ignorance and THEN go look stuff up on the internet.

This does not seem to be a tale of two cities.  To me it's a tale of one city (Paris during the revolution) with the second city existing only as an escape location for some characters.  The very famous beginning, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," yada yada yada makes me think the story is really going to compare/contrast London and Paris.  Does the reader have to be a British Dickensian contemporary to see the comparison?  (Or a historian?)

All this makes me sound like I didn't like the book.  Which is not true.  In fact, I found myself not wanting to put it down at some points.  I just figured the best place to start a discussion is at the beginning, no?

Ides of March

They have come and gone and I have failed to finish our book. :-( How are you two doing? Postpone discussion for a week? Or can you kick it off and I'll catch up?