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I reviewed it last year Larry Send a noteboard - 22/05/2011 07:45:48 PM
Interesting to see how similar our comments are. Now to see if you (and others) will read Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust, which has an interesting parallel with the Tom Robinson case, despite it being published about a dozen years prior to To Kill a Mockingbird.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Nelle Harper Lee - 22/05/2011 06:28:11 PM 8371 Views
I reviewed it last year - 22/05/2011 07:45:48 PM 2035 Views
Huh. I seem to have missed that. - 22/05/2011 11:17:11 PM 1933 Views
It's a beautiful, incredible book. - 22/05/2011 08:21:48 PM 1864 Views
Re: It's a beautiful, incredible book. - 22/05/2011 11:18:32 PM 1819 Views
Also - 22/05/2011 11:33:27 PM 1812 Views
Don't you think that, you know, too many people have read it already? - 23/05/2011 09:55:52 PM 1897 Views
Does that disqualify it? - 24/05/2011 01:49:54 PM 1838 Views
I don't know, if a lot of people want to have this book in a Book Club, I have no objections. - 24/05/2011 07:01:38 PM 1860 Views
Well, that's true. - 25/05/2011 01:20:54 PM 1956 Views
Loved that book. - 22/05/2011 09:07:16 PM 1841 Views
Re: Loved that book. - 22/05/2011 11:19:29 PM 1854 Views
A great book - 22/05/2011 09:13:12 PM 1891 Views
Re: A great book - 22/05/2011 11:20:02 PM 1851 Views
“Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’.” *NM* - 23/05/2011 12:03:34 AM 969 Views
Indeed. *NM* - 23/05/2011 09:37:38 AM 963 Views
Bah. This seems like a lame book. It will never catch on. - 23/05/2011 01:31:10 AM 1966 Views
LOL *NM* - 23/05/2011 08:36:55 AM 957 Views
Hehehe. *NM* - 23/05/2011 09:38:03 AM 1006 Views
Um, there's already a rfilm version of this. - 23/05/2011 01:11:36 PM 1727 Views
Suspect he knows that. *NM* - 23/05/2011 01:15:46 PM 979 Views
I don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't like this book. *NM* - 23/05/2011 09:37:52 AM 961 Views
So it survives being taught in school? - 23/05/2011 09:39:18 AM 1837 Views
Yup. *NM* - 23/05/2011 02:47:17 PM 974 Views
I've met some, but it was a casualty of middle school English. *NM* - 23/05/2011 07:40:27 PM 892 Views
Thanks for the review. - 23/05/2011 10:07:46 PM 2175 Views
Re: Thanks for the review. - 24/05/2011 12:14:08 AM 1932 Views
Let me ask the politically incorrect questions, since no one else has. - 24/05/2011 03:14:50 AM 2056 Views
Hmm - 24/05/2011 10:22:50 AM 1949 Views
I think that's a fair point. - 24/05/2011 07:00:04 PM 1957 Views
Calpurnia is a stereotype too. - 24/05/2011 11:54:26 PM 1872 Views
The difference, at least in my recollection, is that Calpurnia is well-educated. - 25/05/2011 08:09:58 PM 1826 Views
Re: The difference, at least in my recollection, is that Calpurnia is well-educated. - 25/05/2011 10:59:26 PM 1919 Views
Yes. This. *NM* - 26/05/2011 04:56:48 AM 887 Views
I think there was at least once incident showing a racist black person - 24/05/2011 07:33:09 PM 2113 Views
Almost a non-incident - 24/05/2011 08:51:59 PM 1736 Views
I think it was written to accomplish a goal and it did that very well - 25/05/2011 04:08:17 PM 1866 Views
Given your introductory portion - 11/06/2011 01:28:40 AM 1881 Views
It just occurred to me - 11/06/2011 01:30:05 AM 1838 Views
Re: It just occurred to me - 11/06/2011 11:36:21 AM 1920 Views
I have read both - 11/06/2011 11:35:11 AM 1709 Views
All of Twain's stuff is great - 13/06/2011 02:27:55 AM 1923 Views
Re: All of Twain's stuff is great - 13/06/2011 08:17:05 AM 1836 Views
And some poets - Tennyson and Yeats come to mind. *NM* - 13/06/2011 10:11:31 AM 870 Views
Keats? - 13/06/2011 10:14:58 AM 1929 Views
I have to say... - 13/06/2011 05:27:26 PM 1777 Views
Re: I have to say... - 13/06/2011 05:54:45 PM 1865 Views

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