I'm quite concerned that you may not have read "Huck Finn", or perhaps nothing at all by Mark Twain.
That would be a shame on an epic scale.
I read both when I was a child. I haven't read them since. Which means I have not read them in English, which is a shame, I suppose.
Edit: by "both" I mean Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
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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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Re: Don't you think that, you know, too many people have read it already?
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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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. *NM*
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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Re: One of my nieces didn't like it. I think it was because she was forced to read it for school.
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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