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Well I fell in love with Too kill a mockingbird and this story just doesn't live up too the original. I'm just a little disappointed but it seems to me if I absolutely love a story it's hard to have a good follow up. The story isn't bad I just had higher expectations.
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Author: Harper Lee
Length: 278 pages
Genre: Fiction
Where did it come from? Barnes and Noble
Why do I have it? Because, Harper Lee
Summary: Go Set a Watchman is the "lost" novel written before To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout is an adult who comes home and realizes that perhaps both she and her home have changed and diverged in ways that cannot be reconciled.
Review: I have just finished the book. I'm glad I read it, but I'm even more glad that the editors convinced Harper Lee to go back and write about ...more
Length: 278 pages
Genre: Fiction
Where did it come from? Barnes and Noble
Why do I have it? Because, Harper Lee
Summary: Go Set a Watchman is the "lost" novel written before To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout is an adult who comes home and realizes that perhaps both she and her home have changed and diverged in ways that cannot be reconciled.
Review: I have just finished the book. I'm glad I read it, but I'm even more glad that the editors convinced Harper Lee to go back and write about ...more
I liked it more than I expected to after seeing several poor reviews. It helps to have already read To Kill a Mockingbird, even though Watchman was written first. Readers of TKAM will empathize as Scout struggles with having to look at her father in a new light.
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3.5 stars
I feel like I should start with I thought To Kill a Mockingbird was just okay as well (ducks tomatoes and other rotten vegetables). It's well written but the characters are just kind of one-note, and I always thought the message was too preachy and the story not entertaining enough. Go Set a Watchman was also well-written but didn't really have a plot aside from an older Jean Louise (Scout) comes home for a visit and stuff happens.
The one thing that surprised me was the outrage that Atticus Finc ...more
The one thing that surprised me was the outrage that Atticus Finc ...more
I respected this book far more than I thought I would. It highlights the ugly things that I always felt were lurking in To Kill a Mockingbird, but doesn't give any easy answers; in fact, it doesn't really provide any answers.
I think a lot of the hostility towards it comes from people being forced into Jean Louise's world when they want to stay in Scout's. ...more
I think a lot of the hostility towards it comes from people being forced into Jean Louise's world when they want to stay in Scout's. ...more
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