To Kill a Mockingbird : The 40th Anniversary Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

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Summary: One of the best so far- I couldn't put it down for a minute.
Review: This is a book that you will not put down for a minute. Scout's adventures are something everyone (young and old) will enjoy.

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Summary: To Kill A Mockingbird Is An Extrodinary Novel
Review: I really enjoyed reading To Kill A Mockingbird. In the beginning I want too thrilled about reading it because it was a school assignment, but as i got further and further into the book it grew on me. This novel is filled with many laughs, cries and in betweens. Jem and his sister Scout ( Jean Louise) are living in a world where people are judged by the color of their skin and not the content of their character. The fact that their father, Atticus, is a lawyer and defending a black man on rape charges is not helping. I would recommend this book to any one who enjoys a good book filled with the facts of life.

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Summary: A Touching Novel
Review: I just finished reading this novel for the first time, and I found myself completely absorbed by the book whenever I picked it up. The characters and plot in this books are amazing; it's deifinitely my favourite book!

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Summary: Timeless classic that still has its original power
Review: I read this book in one week. I came back and reread it over a month just to savor the quality of writing in it. Lee's power is honest and unwavering. She shows the world through the eyes of a little girl wo is too smart for her own good. I think this book will stand the test of time and be read long after we are gone along with are children. How this book wasn't choosen as the greatest english book ever written is beyond me. Lee writes with a clarity that even Joyce could only hope to achive. I can say this thing about this book, that it will proboly be the only book I make my children read. Other than reading this book, they can never read again for all I care.

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Summary: Greeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttt!!!!!!!!
Review: This is such a great book. I loved it and I know that you will too.

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Summary: A great modern classic.
Review: To Kill a Mockingbird is a great book about life in a small southern town in 1935. It emphasises the extent of racism and how it affects every one. I like how Harper Lee wrote with compassion about her characters.

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Summary: A wonderful surprise
Review: I complained all day about reading the book. Then a friend urged me to continue saying "It's a classic, you'll love it!" I did! The book captured my imagination as I read on, the characters seemed so real! Now, I can't wait to begin my school year to see everyonelse's veiws on this fabulous novel!

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Summary: One of my all time favourites...
Review: The first time I read the book was when I had to sit for my English Literature paper in my final year in secondary school. I didn't expect it to be that incredible and so alive. And till today, after so many years, I could still memorise the lines and still visualise Scout and her family.

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Summary: excellent
Review: harper lee has shown us all the evil of just not racism but of all prejudice and bigotry. it is simply awesome

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Summary: A very poignant and sensitive account of childhood
Review: I first read the book when I was 11 years old. At that time , there were a few aspects (about rape and racial prejudice) which I didn't really understand, having being brought up in a sheltered world in India. Yet, somehow the book went straight to the heart if only because of the love the protagonists felt towards each other and which shone through in the book -the strong bond between Scout,Jem,Atticus and Cal, and the unlikely and poignant friendship between the children and Boo Radley. As I grew up , I re-read the book several times and have never failed to be moved by it. I feel that it is a story which transcends barriers of language and society, like all great literature does. The recreation of the childhood world is wonderful-living in a different country and society, Scout and Jem's fantasies could still have been my own. Each time I read the book I'm impresssed by the accuracy with which the author has recreated the world of childhood- it is a world which all of us have inhabited at some time, but which tends to get buried ubder the moss of years until a book like this comes along. The racial prejudice and the irrationality exhibited by apparently "solid citizens" is something which keeps cropping up again and again in different forms in every society -another reason why I feel the book is so universal. But ultimately, what has made this book one of my all time favourites is that it re-affirms one's faith in humanity -the unswerving courage shown by Atticus (and perhaps Boo Radley too though in a different context), the simple goodness of ordinary folk like the Judge, Sheriff, and Cal, and the spirited idealism of the children, all remind one that there is light amidst the wilderness.All in all a funny, moving, poignant,sensitive,wonderful book.