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Does that disqualify it? Sareitha Sedai Send a noteboard - 24/05/2011 01:49:54 PM
I cannot help thinking that if the book clubs were to resurface at some point, this would make a good candidate.

Among Americans just about everyone seems to have, and in the rest of the world it's still fairly famous.


I would bet that many Americans at least haven't read it in years and would find reading it now to be a different experience (an interesting point of discussion in itself). And from what I remember of the book clubs, people wouldn't have to read it again to participate if they didn't choose to.
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Nelle Harper Lee Camilla - 22/05/2011 06:28:11 PM 8702 Views
I reviewed it last year Larry - 22/05/2011 07:45:48 PM 2257 Views
Huh. I seem to have missed that. Camilla - 22/05/2011 11:17:11 PM 2175 Views
As you noted, though, it's a fuller depiction of the South than "racist people." Ghavrel - 23/05/2011 12:00:01 AM 2153 Views
It's a beautiful, incredible book. Rebekah - 22/05/2011 08:21:48 PM 2083 Views
Re: It's a beautiful, incredible book. Camilla - 22/05/2011 11:18:32 PM 2040 Views
Also Camilla - 22/05/2011 11:33:27 PM 2040 Views
Don't you think that, you know, too many people have read it already? Legolas - 23/05/2011 09:55:52 PM 2128 Views
Re: Don't you think that, you know, too many people have read it already? Camilla - 24/05/2011 12:05:11 AM 2199 Views
Does that disqualify it? Sareitha Sedai - 24/05/2011 01:49:54 PM 2060 Views
I don't know, if a lot of people want to have this book in a Book Club, I have no objections. Legolas - 24/05/2011 07:01:38 PM 2096 Views
Well, that's true. Sareitha Sedai - 25/05/2011 01:20:54 PM 2189 Views
Loved that book. Tashmere - 22/05/2011 09:07:16 PM 2087 Views
Re: Loved that book. Camilla - 22/05/2011 11:19:29 PM 2079 Views
A great book Beqi - 22/05/2011 09:13:12 PM 2117 Views
Re: A great book Camilla - 22/05/2011 11:20:02 PM 2080 Views
“Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’.” *NM* Ghavrel - 23/05/2011 12:03:34 AM 1053 Views
Indeed. *NM* Camilla - 23/05/2011 09:37:38 AM 1056 Views
Bah. This seems like a lame book. It will never catch on. Cannoli - 23/05/2011 01:31:10 AM 2218 Views
LOL *NM* Rebekah - 23/05/2011 08:36:55 AM 1043 Views
Hehehe. *NM* Camilla - 23/05/2011 09:38:03 AM 1095 Views
Um, there's already a rfilm version of this. Panorphaeon - 23/05/2011 01:11:36 PM 1948 Views
Suspect he knows that. *NM* Rebekah - 23/05/2011 01:15:46 PM 1067 Views
Boy, that sarcastic subtext can be so hard to grasp in this virtual madness. *NM* Panorphaeon - 25/05/2011 06:49:03 AM 1069 Views
I don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't like this book. *NM* Darth_Katie - 23/05/2011 09:37:52 AM 1051 Views
So it survives being taught in school? Camilla - 23/05/2011 09:39:18 AM 2061 Views
Yup. *NM* Darth_Katie - 23/05/2011 02:47:17 PM 1072 Views
I've met some, but it was a casualty of middle school English. *NM* Ghavrel - 23/05/2011 07:40:27 PM 977 Views
One of my nieces didn't like it. I think it was because she was forced to read it for school. Tashmere - 24/05/2011 02:33:23 AM 2302 Views
Re: One of my nieces didn't like it. I think it was because she was forced to read it for school. Camilla - 24/05/2011 10:15:45 AM 2244 Views
I will try to keep an eye out for it. Thanks. *NM* Tashmere - 11/06/2011 08:27:23 PM 1053 Views
Thanks for the review. Legolas - 23/05/2011 10:07:46 PM 2429 Views
Re: Thanks for the review. Camilla - 24/05/2011 12:14:08 AM 2177 Views
Let me ask the politically incorrect questions, since no one else has. Tom - 24/05/2011 03:14:50 AM 2288 Views
I don't understand why having a guilty black man would have made it more powerful. Ghavrel - 24/05/2011 05:59:17 AM 2240 Views
Hmm Camilla - 24/05/2011 10:22:50 AM 2180 Views
I could see your argument if Tolkien were writing about feminism. Tom - 24/05/2011 02:15:42 PM 2188 Views
I think that's a fair point. Legolas - 24/05/2011 07:00:04 PM 2201 Views
Calpurnia is a stereotype too. Tom - 24/05/2011 11:54:26 PM 2093 Views
The difference, at least in my recollection, is that Calpurnia is well-educated. Legolas - 25/05/2011 08:09:58 PM 2061 Views
Re: The difference, at least in my recollection, is that Calpurnia is well-educated. Camilla - 25/05/2011 10:59:26 PM 2161 Views
Yes. This. *NM* Tom - 26/05/2011 04:56:48 AM 971 Views
I think there was at least once incident showing a racist black person ßelals Girl - 24/05/2011 07:33:09 PM 2333 Views
Almost a non-incident Tom - 24/05/2011 08:51:59 PM 1956 Views
I think it was written to accomplish a goal and it did that very well random thoughts - 25/05/2011 04:08:17 PM 2110 Views
Given your introductory portion aerocontrols - 11/06/2011 01:28:40 AM 2118 Views
It just occurred to me aerocontrols - 11/06/2011 01:30:05 AM 2089 Views
Re: It just occurred to me Camilla - 11/06/2011 11:36:21 AM 2133 Views
I have read both Camilla - 11/06/2011 11:35:11 AM 1932 Views
All of Twain's stuff is great aerocontrols - 13/06/2011 02:27:55 AM 2174 Views
Re: All of Twain's stuff is great Camilla - 13/06/2011 08:17:05 AM 2056 Views
And some poets - Tennyson and Yeats come to mind. *NM* Legolas - 13/06/2011 10:11:31 AM 960 Views
Keats? Camilla - 13/06/2011 10:14:58 AM 2149 Views
I have to say... Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:27:26 PM 1995 Views
Re: I have to say... Camilla - 13/06/2011 05:54:45 PM 2084 Views
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