To Kill a Mockingbird

[Kate]

I just had to add a thread for this book to the group. This book makes for great discussion.

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.

Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior—to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story, by a young Alabama woman, claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

What are your thoughts on this classic?

[Cindy]

I love this novel! One of my favorites of all time. I have more to say about it but I'm getting ready to walk out the door so I'll be back! lol

[R.L.]

Hi i was so pleased to see your post, I love this book. One of my all-time favourite reads. Its deceptively simple, isn't it? Using the voice of a child to tell a very complex story, tackling the concept of freedom in a multitude of ways. It is the only book that I LIKED for English.

The only downside with this story is that its a one and only. I read somewhere that Harper Lee was so overwhelmed by its success that she never wrote again.

Harper Lee, if you are on Goodreads, please, keep writing...

[ɐzzıɹʞ]

I really love this book as well =)