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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Mar 2002
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To Kill a Mocking Bird
I have to read this book for school and I just want opinions of it to know what I'm in for
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The Fleet-Footed
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: British Columbia
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I read To Kill A Mocking Bird this past school year for English 10 and I LOVED it! It was an amazing book, beautifully written, with two great, independant yet inter-woven plots. Wonderful book!
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Join Date: Dec 1999
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It's generally regarded as the quintessential twentieth-century novel involving racial conflict in America...
Myself, I don't remember it too well. Haven't touched it in years and years.
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Jun 2002
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I HATED it!!!
OK, that might be to strong a word, but I really didn't enjoy it.
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Canada
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Personally, I didn't like it. I tried to. I thought it wasn't very "tight". It wandered all over the place and couldn't seem to figure out what story it wanted to tell. The first part doesn't feel very connected to the middle which doesn't feel very connected to the end. Well, there are loose threads that connect thing together, but very loose. I felt like about 4/5ths throught it, she finally decided that she wanted to tell a story and started to pull things together, and then it started getting interesting, but it was too little, too late. I wasn't particularly able to relate or sympathize with the characters.
I'm kind of apathetic towards this one. I wouldn't recommend it, but that's not to say it was bad. It just didn't connect with me. Maybe it will connect with you. |
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The Insufferable
Join Date: Aug 2001
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As the Gamers say:
"It SUX0R3D!"
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
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It was okay, but I don't particularly remember it either. (I read it about five years ago.)
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The Rogue Elf
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Haven't read it yet. Keep wanting to associate it will "A Time To Kill", though.
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: lurking on the edge of conversations
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Hm, I just read it this year for class, it's not bad, I kind of liked it. One of my friends really enjoyed it, I'll have to see if I can get her on here so you won't be totally overwhelmed with dread.
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: WI
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I loved that book!!!! It is truly a classic. I know that many people don't enjoy it, but it is one of the few books that I was forced to read in school that I have been grateful for. It is amazing. The issues that it deals with, the moral questions, the adventure, sadness, it is just so awesome!
Now, it might be a bit hard to get through, but it is all worth it I assure you.
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: a castle made of clouds
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One of my favorite books. I suppose when I first read it (8th grade) I really identified with the main character, Scout. In fact, I fell in love with most of the characters, and, as said, it brings up some really important moral issues.
When I reread it this year, I was expecting to be disappointed: after all, it was one of the first really good books I had read in school, and my standards of literature hadn't been so high back then. But I *still* love it. There are major jumps in plot, but they all wrap up in the end; just keep that in mind. I suppose if you didn't really get into the characters or the plot, it would be a hard read, but that's true for any book. So see if it works for you.
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: The far and fair West of California:)
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Thank you all for yours opinions
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Long lost mooter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Florida
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It is an excellent book, and many people count it as their favorite of all time. I was also fortunate enough to see it performed on stage in Atlanta. The movie is excellent as well. It's just a great story. An interesting bit of trivia with which you can impress your teacher -- the character of Dill is based on Harper Lee's real life childhood neighbor, Truman Capote (a very famous American author).
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: a castle made of clouds
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Wasn't a lot of the book drawn from Harper Lee's childhood experiences? Not in a biographical way, but bits and pieces based on her own life.
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Long lost mooter
Join Date: Apr 2002
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Yes. I think that's the case with many authors, and especially so with her. It's like Stephen King always basing his stories in small New English towns, since he grew up in Maine. I think it's not only hard for an author to write about things very foriegn to them, but I also think they write better when they "stick to what they know" as the phrase goes. That's a basic rule of writing fiction, because you must be able to make characters and situations believable. Sometimes a story can become much more autobiographical than the author intends, but many times it works anyway.
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Elven Lady of Speed-posting
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: the cheese state
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That book has provided me with themes for some of my most favorite essays ever! I identified with Dill the most...imaginitive, short, a little crazy. What a great book. I love all the different characters that were developed to fullness, the intertwining themes, everything. I could PROBABLY say a lot more. But that would spoil the effect of reading it for yourself for the first time.
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Banned
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: seattle
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really good book heh i just finished reading it a couple days ago
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Seattle
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It is a very good book
P.S. Llark I bet you did not read it. |
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Enting
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Calgary
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I liked the book. At times it looked like it was going to get boring, but it never did.
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