Go Set a Watchman in Pick-a-Shelf

Mar 05, 2015 Joanie rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2015

Update: I'm still really torn. On the one hand I feel like I should give this one star but the sentimental side of me won't allow it. What I'd really like to do is leave the stars part blank and just write how I feel-does goodreads allow that? Ok, apparently it does.

The bad: There are a lot of inconsistencies between Watchman and Mockingbird. Some are small-like the fact that in Watchman, Francis is Aunt Alexandra's son and not her grandson and Finch's Landing is a lodge of some type, not Aunt A ...more

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Apr 25, 2015 Nicole rated it did not like it

Shelves: 2016

I reread To Kill a Mockingbird prior to reading Go Set a Watchman, and I'm not sure if that was a good move or not. Mockingbird is a special, wonderful book and Watchman feels like it was written by a totally different person. There was a lot of sermonizing and limited plot. The richness of the characters just weren't there in the same way.

While I know this was meant as an early draft of Mockingbird, and not a companion book it still bothered me that there were inconsistencies between the two bo ...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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