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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Start date: December 1, 2017

Finish date: December 31, 2017

Discussion: CLASSICS READS

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Nov 14, 2011 Stephen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: literature, all-5-star-reads, z-read-in-2011, and-saw-the-movie, historical-fiction, tally-50-book-list, pulitzers, 1-quiz

I've loved the movie for years but never read the book until now. The movie was a loving, faithful adaptation that really brought life to the characters and the situations, but of course, the book had the chance to delve a little deeper, present more complex characters and even included a few characters and words and situations that were completely missing from the movie.

I'm glad to have finally met some of Atticus's siblings but I can well see why they were left out of the cinematic version. T ...more

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Jun 08, 2011 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: country, fiction

I'm so glad I reread this. Some of my initial impressions of the book from when I was made to read it in school came to me as I read it this time (impressions in a true abstract sense; I didn't remember the details of the story), but something that really impressed me about the book this time was, actually, the humor and optimism (in the form of compassion) in the story; also, different tropes and turns of phrase were just so American that it endeared the book to me, being thousands of miles awa ...more

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Jul 10, 2010 Elena rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-classics

First time I read this book, everybody seems to have read it in school. It was a beautiful story, a little flat at times, but I think it is my age.... I would had loved to had read it as teenager.

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