To Kill a Mockingbird

Hardcover, 336 pages

English language

Published Jan. 13, 2015 by Harper.

ISBN:
978-0-06-242070-1
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4 stars (19 reviews)

50th Anniversary Edition

104 editions

A forward novel that we already moved past

3 stars

The book represents a point of view of a child during the 30's written by someone who was a child during the 30's, which brings valuable historical authenticity. It was published in the 60's and due to its immediate success it was a part of a shift in attitudes regarding the civil rights movements of the 70's. Reading the book with this context in mind is an interesting experience because to a contemporary mind, the 60's is in many ways more absurd than was the 30's to the author.

The novel own its own merit is greatly delivered, with enough character building and contextualization that by the time the main plot arrives my metropolitan millennial mind is decently acclimatized to a completely alien society and culture. The naive, progressive-household-raised, clean slate kid point of view gives the narrator plausible bewilderment when facing the pervasive racial injustice and hypocrisy the book …

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4 stars

Not having read this book since high school, I decided to reread it so that I could read the "new" Harper Lee book.

It was definitely better than I remembered. One thing that made it more personal for me, is that my husband is from Alabama. As a Californian, this part of the setting did not stick in my mind when I was in high school, since all southern states were pretty interchangeable in my mind. Now I've been to one of them, and it's that one!

As I read the first few chapters, I was surprised by how well I remembered it. I could tell right away that the writing style was one that I would enjoy.

What I didn't remember well was the very end.

I'm glad that I took the time to read this book again, outside of school. I look forward to reading Go Set a …

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