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Harper Lee - 2/5/2015 8:03:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		Harper Lee,90 something and apparently incapable of handling her own affairs after suffering a debilitating stroke in 2007 is releasing a book (or more accurately those who are handling her affairs are )that was actually written before"To Kill a Mockingbird)
The book,"Go Set a Watchman" was originally offered to Harper-Collins prior to "to Kill...."....also dealt with Scout and Atticus but was set twenty years after "To Kill...".
In this book there were flashback scenes to Scout's childhood,the publisher in rejecting Watchman stated an interest in having the flashback scenes fleshed out into it's own book,thus To Kill a Mockingbird was given birth.
I'm of two minds on this,as a huge fan of the original work I am of course curious and will buy and read this book.....as a fan of Harper Lee I do hope she hasn't been taken advantage of and that this doesn't prove to be an inferior work.Harper Lee had many years in which she was healthy and of sound mind and never decided to have this released ,so I am concerned.
Opinions.....

By the way,the new book has already shot to #1 on Amazon......and that's with only pre-sales ,the book isn't due out for a few months!

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RE: Har[er Lee - 2/5/2015 8:26:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		Can someone fix the typo in my OP...I don't know how...lol

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RE: Har[er Lee - 2/5/2015 8:29:46 AM   
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RE: Harper Lee - 2/5/2015 8:33:33 AM   
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Can someone fix the typo in my OP...I don't know how...lol


I hope you only meant the P in Harper.

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RE: Harper Lee - 2/5/2015 8:35:16 AM   
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RE: Harper Lee - 2/5/2015 8:35:33 AM   
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RE: Har[er Lee - 2/5/2015 8:36:45 AM   
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Look at your own thread and hit the "Edit" button!

Thanks FW,Mod 3 fixed it for me...but thanks to you I now know how to do it myself....lol

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RE: Harper Lee - 2/5/2015 8:37:57 AM   
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Yes Mod 3 that's exactly what I meant.
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RE: Harper Lee - 2/5/2015 8:41:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		There are very few books I get excited for their release. This is one of them. Mockingbird has always been one of my favorites so am excited to see the direction of this one.

I don't anticipate this to be inferior work, even though the someone saw something it may have been lacking. I am, however, curious to the why now and wonder if she is being taken advantage of, given the circumstances and timing behind its release.

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RE: Har[er Lee - 2/5/2015 8:48:06 AM   
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Look at your own thread and hit the "Edit" button!

Thanks FW,Mod 3 fixed it for me...but thanks to you I now know how to do it myself....lol

Just so you know where to find it -
I think you have an hour to edit it after you've posted it.
After that, unless deleted by a kind Mod, it's there forever for prosperity




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RE: Harper Lee - 2/5/2015 8:58:41 AM   
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I was never a huge fan of her first book but I'm looking forward to this one being released.

Might I ask why ?
And I ask only because it was one of my favorite books as well as one of my favorite movies.Peck's portrayal of Atticus was absolutely great IMO.

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RE: Har[er Lee - 2/5/2015 9:54:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		Mike if it were not for the edit button no one would be able to make sense of what i say... hard enough anyway... I am a self professed idiot... thus my quote from Twain.

I hope the book is not edited and is hers.

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RE: Harper Lee - 2/5/2015 9:57:21 AM   
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I was never a huge fan of her first book but I'm looking forward to this one being released.


I have started this book more times than I can count, and have yet to make it more than halfway through.

Don't like it, and just can't force myself to finish it just because popular opinion says "I should like it".

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RE: Harper Lee - 2/5/2015 10:01:41 AM   
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RE: Harper Lee - 2/5/2015 10:05:36 AM   
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ORIGINAL: camille65

I was never a huge fan of her first book but I'm looking forward to this one being released.


I have started this book more times than I can count, and have yet to make it more than halfway through.

Don't like it, and just can't force myself to finish it just because popular opinion says "I should like it".

Ladybug,I didn't mean to imply that people must like it because I do/did
I'm just wondering what Camille didn't like about it.
Taste is subjective,just because most like something doesn't mean all must like it....I'm just curious as to what it was about it that folks didn't like

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RE: Harper Lee - 2/5/2015 10:15:51 AM   
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Taste is subjective,just because most like something doesn't mean all must like it....I'm just curious as to what it was about it that folks didn't like


I couldn't tell you *why* I didn't like it, much like I couldn't really explain to you *why* "All Quiet on the Western Front" is my favorite book of all time. I never had to read it for school (not quite sure how that happened), but I picked it up as one of those classics that I felt I "should read". Over the years, I have spoken with quite a few people who have told me that they simply cannot understand why I don't like it. There's nothing about the subject of the book that offends me at all. Absolutely nothing that I can put a finger on.

I just don't like it. I guess that's the best answer that I can give.

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RE: Harper Lee - 2/5/2015 10:54:50 AM   
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All quiet on the western front was a great book,I loved it
I'm sure though that if we looked we could find some who didn't care for that classic too

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RE: Harper Lee - 2/5/2015 11:47:10 AM   
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All good
All quiet on the western front was a great book,I loved it
I'm sure though that if we looked we could find some who didn't care for that classic too



With all of that being said (and without having read the book or seen the movie), I *do* understand your conflict with the new book, I think.

I'm reminded of what happened with "Gone with the Wind". (Granted, different because the prequels and sequels were not written by Mitchell...but still...) Here you have a classic of world literature. (Even though I don't like TKAM, I will freely concede its position as such.) It's also a "one hit wonder" of literature. People *want* more, but, how can it even compare to the first work? Should we even *try* to compare it?

In my mind, if the author actually *wanted* to publish a prequel or sequel while they were alive (or of sound mind, as is the case with Ms. Lee), wouldn't they have just done it? I find it terribly hard to believe that publishing houses wouldn't have been falling over themselves to get their hands on anything having to do with the characters in GWTW during Margaret Mitchell's lifetime. Or, if Harper Lee had *wanted* this book to be published over the past decades, wouldn't it have happened? Fact is, it didn't happen. Why is it happening now? Money speaks very loudly.

I do hope, for fans of the book, that this one doesn't disappoint. I can certainly understand the concern though. (Star Wars prequels, anyone?)

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RE: Harper Lee - 2/5/2015 1:57:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ladybug ,You never saw the movie ?
Never saw Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch ?
If the answer is yes to those questions,do yourself a favor and rent the movie.I know there's no guarantee you will like it but it's.....wait for it




a classic

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RE: Harper Lee - 2/5/2015 4:31:07 PM   
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as a huge fan of the original work



I had the misfortune to read the likes of Shakespeare and Chaucer at college, absolute torture, given a choice I'd rather have hacked indiscriminately at my bollocks with an axe.

It did, however, help me to realise how lucky we were as 14 year olds, having our eyes opened to the likes of To Kill A Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies and various poems and poets from WW1; courtesy of our English Literature teacher who was certainly one of our more memorable teachers.

And to be able to read these books and talk about them for an hour? That's my idea of school and learning.

It's a beautifully written book, one I've read a few times since school and I will get back round to it again some time soon.

Don't know anything about this other book in the OP, but it certainly has a hard act to follow and whatever its qualities there is no danger of what TKAM has to say being diminished.

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