Mockingbird

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Summary: there's still time...
Review: A dear friend recommended this book in 1981, I've been enamored with it since...I look at it as the third of the futurist trilogy. 1) Brave New World, 2) Farenheit 451 and 3) Mockingbird. Being an English Lit. major, I see the reality of these books coming to be. Books open the recesses of our minds and these books show, very clearly, what happens when we stop thinking beyond the tips of our noses. Books on tape, movies, cd's, all remind me of how close we are to the future pointed out in these books...God have mercy on us all...

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Summary: there's still time...
Review: A dear friend recommended this book in 1981, I've been enamored with it since...I look at it as the third of the futurist trilogy. 1) Brave New World, 2) Farenheit 451 and 3) Mockingbird. Being an English Lit. major, I see the reality of these books coming to be. Books open the recesses of our minds and these books show, very clearly, what happens when we stop thinking beyond the tips of our noses. Books on tape, movies, cd's, all remind me of how close we are to the future pointed out in these books...God have mercy on us all...

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Summary: Have you missed something you shouldn't have?
Review: A touching, excellent novel

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Summary: good story told bad
Review: Great idea Walter Tevis took no where. Rotten story telling.

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Summary: The best novel of the last 50 years
Review: I began using Mockingbird in my college classes when it first came out; and, even though it went out of print, I still used it, when I could find copies. Thank god it's available again! The exciting story of two people teaching themselves to read, then reading, thinking, writing, and regaining their humanity while falling in love is the strong medicine needed for education today. Also, Walter Tevis is one of the finest writers of any age--so reading Mockingbird is also a lesson in how to write clearly, concisely, and correctly. Would that every teacher and student read it--more than once!

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Summary: "The best 25 cents", I agree!
Review: I bought my copy from a book vendor in my hometown for about a buck. Best buck I've spent on a book in a long time (I guess that's inflation for you :) ). It's every bit as moving, passionate, and disturbing as everyone here has been making it out to be... if not more so. Get it if you can find it, read it, pass it on. I think Mr. Tevis would appreciate the sentiment.

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Summary: I never read books ever and this is the one to read
Review: I never read books ever and this is one of the ones that I have read thru from cover to cover. It kind of refers to life in a way to a way it can trufully end up in the future. Very believable

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Summary: If there is not a movie... I'd like to make one...
Review: I read this book a long time ago... I've just been waiting to forget the story so that I can read it again and enjoy it as much as the first time. I was told that a movie was made... I have searched but to no avail... this would trully make a good movie.

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Summary: Excellent and absolutely fantastic
Review: I read this book repeatedly when I was about 14. I'm 22 and I still haven't forgotten it. I'm going to make this book the topic of my Psychology term paper if I can find a copy of it. Mockingbird is marvelously interesting.

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Summary: a milestone
Review: I read this excellent work when I myself had arrived at a crossroads in my life. I had just switched from a Military career to a Civilian one and was bewildered by the huge changes that this switch forced to have me go through. I found the story an excellent possible extrapolation from what I observed after leaving the somewhat protective and admittedly rigid army-life into the sometimes non-sensical and befuddling world at large. Not that it helped me a lot, but it is a good story with something in it for everyone who cares to open his/her mind for it. It has an implicitely positive message, a well worked out plot and a (relatively) happy ending. Good Book: Nuf said