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Post by Moose on Jul 22, 2015 20:20:02 GMT
The new Harper Lee? Tesco is selling it, rather to my surprise, and I was tempted. Not sure tho .. I've read some negative things, both about the novel itself and about the circumstances of its publication. What do people think?
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Post by tangent on Jul 22, 2015 21:31:03 GMT
I don't intend to read it.
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Post by Mari on Jul 23, 2015 10:22:16 GMT
Don't know who Harper Lee is or what he (she?) writes.
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Post by spaceflower on Jul 24, 2015 0:49:54 GMT
I plan to read Go Set a Watchman, even if it not as good as To Kill a Mocking Bird. Seems like the manuscript just was stored for over 50 years without the author working on it all these years.
I've already read that the staunch hero of TKMB, Atticus Finch, is shown as a racist in the new book.
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Jul 24, 2015 8:33:52 GMT
When the fuss has died down I do intend to read it.
I'm not at all surprised by the view the AF comes across as racist by today's standards. I look at the views held by even the most cutting edge white liberals of fifty years ago and, by today's standards, they're racist. We evolve with the years.
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Post by Moose on Jul 25, 2015 23:51:06 GMT
But Atticus was not a racist in the thirties.
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Post by robert on Jul 30, 2015 0:27:30 GMT
Yes, I had heard it was nothing more than the first draft of "To Kill a Mockingbird." Not sure I would be all that interested.
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Post by jayme on Dec 27, 2022 8:50:17 GMT
I read it, and I was disappointed. I think it would have been better if Harper Lee had worked on it until she was happy enough with it to release it herself. But as she was railroaded into releasing it by her nursing home, there was a lot of copy/pasting from TKAM, and it seemed unfinished. As for Atticus being racist, I got the impression he was and that Scout thought he was, until the end when you find out things I can't tell you because they are spoilers. Basically, I didn't like it, and wish I had only read TKAM.
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