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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This novel was absolutly amazing, its no wonder it got the Pulitzer AND best picture the following year. The characters, setting, plot, absolutly everyone was just incredible, cant say enough good things about this book, an absolute must read for anyone out there. It really gets into a lot of deep things to do with growing up, parenting, and just life in general. (  )1   Blazingice0608 | Nov 19, 2009 |  some books you are forced to read in school and that colours your opinion of them (although there were a few i absolutely loved.) Some of these books i read over again in later life and loved them. This one i didn't love and must not have made a huge impression because i don't remember it so well. Perhaps a second glance? (  )1 rampaginglibrarian | Nov 17, 2009 | some books you are forced to read in school and that colours your opinion of them (although there were a few i absolutely loved.) Some of these books i read over again in later life and loved them. This one i didn't love and must not have made a huge impression because i don't remember it so well. Perhaps a second glance? ( )1 rampaginglibrarian | Nov 17, 2009 | This is one of the few required reading books that I enjoyed when I was in grade school. I listened to an audio version recently and loved this book even more as an adult. I think I was able to understand and appreciate the book more now than I did when I was younger. I was reminded why this book is a classic and would recommend it to anybody, especially if you like historical or Southern fiction. ( )1 ladybug74 | Nov 15, 2009 | Excellent book. I can't remember if I ever read this as part of required reading in high school, however I'm glad I took the time to re-read this book again. I really enjoyed reading this the second time around. (  )1 vgusg1rl | Nov 10, 2009 | 
 Author Lee, 34, an Alabaman, has written her first novel with all of the tactile brilliance and none of the preciosity generally supposed to be standard swamp-warfare issue for Southern writers. The novel is an account of an awakening to good and evil, and a faint catechistic flavor may have been inevitable. But it is faint indeed; Novelist Lee's prose has an edge that cuts through cant, and she teaches the reader an astonishing number of useful truths about little girls and about Southern life. There are some improbable and sentimental moments in the story, but there are also great moments of laughter that belong to memory and a novelist's hand... Miss Lee's original characters are people to cherish in this winning first novel by a fresh writer with something significant to say, South and North. The dialogue of Miss Lee's refreshingly varied characters is a constant delight in its authenticity and swift revelation of personality. Te events connecting the Finches with the Ewell-Robinson lawsuit develop quietly and logically, unifying the plot and dramatizing the author's level-headed plea for interracial understanding... Moviegoing readers will be able to cast most of the roles very quickly, but it is no disparagement of Miss Lee's winning book to say that it could be the basis of an excellent film.
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Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber
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