Go Set a Watchman in Around the World in 80 Books

Jul 15, 2015 Ginger rated it it was amazing

Full disclosure: I liked, never loved, To Kill a Mockingbird. I loved this story. The grown up Scout was just wonderfully exactly who you would hope she would be, Atticus is far more complex than the early reviewers would have you believe, there was enough new material and character development that I'm only sad we likely won't be going back to Maycomb.

Go Set a Watchman did not disappoint. I'm so thankful to Harper Lee for taking the risk and putting this work out. ...more

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Jul 15, 2015 Karen rated it really liked it

To Kill a Mockingbird is my absolute favorite book of all time, and I thought I wouldn't like Go Set a Watchman, but I did. GSaW is not at all like TkaM. TkaM's narrative is as smooth as silk, whereas GSaW's narrative has a restless, jumpy feel to it.

I think this is a good historical piece, whether we agree with the language or the attitudes, it is indicative of the some people felt in the south during the 50s. Lee gives a smattering of interesting points of view that I am sure abounded in the s ...more

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Jul 15, 2015 Kent Winward rated it really liked it

I wrote my thoughts for the Ogden Standard Examiner here: http://www.standard.net/Business-Law/.... If Mockingbird was timely for the 1960s, Watchman is the novel for 2015. ...more

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Jul 14, 2015 Anna rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Since this book was published earlier this week there have been thousands of reviews written. I have deliberately avoided reading any of them so as not to affect my own judgement of this book but short of locking myself in a darkened room without any form of communication from the outside world it has been impossible not to have got the gist of the fact that the vast majority of these reviews have been negative.

For my full review please visit my blog at: http://leftontheshelfbookblog.blogspo... ...more

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Jul 19, 2015 Rebekah rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: genre-classics, genre-book-club, genre-historical-fiction, genre-literature, genre-novels, genre-adult, genre-adult-fiction, genre-literary-fiction, setting-us-alabama, genre-fiction

So this was an interesting book.

I do not think it was Harper Lee's intention to ever publish it and I think she was horribly taken advantage of in her age and mental decline. But since it is out there anyway, I did read it. (For free, from the library because I don't want anyone profiting off of her exploitation).

One should only read this if they are really serious about literature and the process of writing. This is clearly NOT a sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird, but a very rough draft. It was ...more

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