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.
There are tons of books that are more in need of attention and encouraging people to read them, is all.
I guess it depends on what the purpose is.
If you are from Betelgeuse, please have one of your Earth friends read what I've written before you respond. Or try concentrating harder.
"The trophy problem has become extreme."
"The trophy problem has become extreme."
To Kill a Mockingbird by Nelle Harper Lee
- 22/05/2011 06:28:11 PM
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I reviewed it last year
- 22/05/2011 07:45:48 PM
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Huh. I seem to have missed that.
- 22/05/2011 11:17:11 PM
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As you noted, though, it's a fuller depiction of the South than "racist people."
- 23/05/2011 12:00:01 AM
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It's a beautiful, incredible book.
- 22/05/2011 08:21:48 PM
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Also
- 22/05/2011 11:33:27 PM
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Don't you think that, you know, too many people have read it already?
- 23/05/2011 09:55:52 PM
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- 24/05/2011 12:05:11 AM
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Does that disqualify it?
- 24/05/2011 01:49:54 PM
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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
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Well, that's true.
- 25/05/2011 01:20:54 PM
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Bah. This seems like a lame book. It will never catch on.
- 23/05/2011 01:31:10 AM
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Um, there's already a rfilm version of this.
- 23/05/2011 01:11:36 PM
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Suspect he knows that.
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- 23/05/2011 01:15:46 PM
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- 23/05/2011 01:15:46 PM
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Boy, that sarcastic subtext can be so hard to grasp in this virtual madness. *NM*
- 25/05/2011 06:49:03 AM
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I don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't like this book. *NM*
- 23/05/2011 09:37:52 AM
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I've met some, but it was a casualty of middle school English. *NM*
- 23/05/2011 07:40:27 PM
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One of my nieces didn't like it. I think it was because she was forced to read it for school.
- 24/05/2011 02:33:23 AM
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- 24/05/2011 10:15:45 AM
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Let me ask the politically incorrect questions, since no one else has.
- 24/05/2011 03:14:50 AM
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I don't understand why having a guilty black man would have made it more powerful.
- 24/05/2011 05:59:17 AM
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Hmm
- 24/05/2011 10:22:50 AM
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I could see your argument if Tolkien were writing about feminism.
- 24/05/2011 02:15:42 PM
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I think that's a fair point.
- 24/05/2011 07:00:04 PM
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Calpurnia is a stereotype too.
- 24/05/2011 11:54:26 PM
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The difference, at least in my recollection, is that Calpurnia is well-educated.
- 25/05/2011 08:09:58 PM
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Re: The difference, at least in my recollection, is that Calpurnia is well-educated.
- 25/05/2011 10:59:26 PM
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I think there was at least once incident showing a racist black person
- 24/05/2011 07:33:09 PM
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I think it was written to accomplish a goal and it did that very well
- 25/05/2011 04:08:17 PM
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Given your introductory portion
- 11/06/2011 01:28:40 AM
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I have read both
- 11/06/2011 11:35:11 AM
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All of Twain's stuff is great
- 13/06/2011 02:27:55 AM
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Re: All of Twain's stuff is great
- 13/06/2011 08:17:05 AM
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And some poets - Tennyson and Yeats come to mind. *NM*
- 13/06/2011 10:11:31 AM
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