To Kill a Mockingbird

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Summary: A powerful American classic enjoyable by people of all ages
Review: Once you read "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, you will realize that this book is one that will touch you forever. The characters are so poignant, so real and so touching. The plot realistically portrays racism, as well as it's effects and reactions to it, in the South at the time. Lee does an excellent job incorporating reality, the somberness of the matter at heart, as well as a few laughs for good measure, into this book. You may laugh, you may cry-- but the inevitable truth is that you will end up reading a book that is very difficult to put down, and impossible to forget.

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Summary: Harper Lee said it best:"a love story, pure and simple."
Review: TKAM is a wonderful book about growing up in a small Alabama town in the 1930's. It shows the maturing of the children, their life struggles, their trimuphs etc. Harper Lee does a wonderful job of letting you get inside the mind of Scout Finch and puts you in her shoes. Putting yourself in someone else's shoes is a common theme and Harper Lee made me feel that I was Scout, I was a close confidant of hers, or that I could see right into her mind and feel what she felt. TKAM is full of symbolism and is a touching novel. A+

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Summary: One of the few Masterpieces!!!
Review: It was probabaly the most interesting book I have ever read. The total feeling and mood of this book is breathtaking...

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Summary: This Book Is Great!
Review: I first read this book because I knew I'd be forced to read it later this year. I was sucked into the story of Scout, a six year old girl who innocently watches the events that unfold in her town around a black man accused of rape. This story is full of interesting characters, truthful morals, and humorous irony. I was also suprised to find a writer who does children justice. Instead of having them be "a bunch of dumb kids" they show insight and personality. Go Harper Lee!

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Summary: This is the best book in the world!
Review: I have read this book at least 10 times (and I don't even like to read), and I absolutely love it!!! It is a moving, deep story of prejudice, family, and friends in the south, and its so different and great cause it is told by one person, but she expresses many views. You have not read a good book until you've read To Kill A Mockingbird.

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Summary: THE BEST OF THE BEST!
Review: I was sixteen years old when I first read this book. As with many, it was required reading. The night before it was due, I decided I would attempt to muster through it. I kept reassuring myself that if I could manage to hit the halfway mark, I'd be okay...boy, was I in for a surprise! When I got half of the book finished, I realized something strange: for the first time in my life, I did not want to stop reading, even if it was to get a drink or eat. Harper Lee had spun a tale that I could relate to, growing up in Geneva, Alabama. I was Scout. Lee had taken this mixed-up world that we lived in and turned it on its ear by showing it to us through the eyes of someone we once knew--ourselves. So much of this novel reminded me of how I was as a child--wide-eyed and innocent, before the world and all of its troubles set in. I have read many of the reviews here and while most are for the novel, the ones against and the reasoning behind them bother me. Many of the allegations are that this book is prejudice. This book is no more prejudice than any other great work of fiction. It is just portraying life as it was back then. If the truth is always right, then why isn't this book? I'm not agreeing with the views, but am also adult enough to know that they did exist and to acknowledge their presence. The other allegation, that children could not feel the emotion Lee writes about is ludicrous. How can one person know what another feels? Children do experience a whole scale of human emotion, just are unable to give it a name. Any emotion can be felt at any age. To make a long story short, BUY THIS BOOK! You will not be sorry. If you've already read it, reread it and pass it on your children. It will be one thing you passed on that they will be grateful for always.

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Summary: I'm buying this book for my son.
Review: When I was 10, I saw the movie and, at my father's urging, read the book. Both are masterpieces and still bring tears to my eyes. This Christmas, my son is 10. He loves computer games and shoot-em-ups and all the stuff 10-year-old boys love. He also loves to read. It's time he read To Kill A Mockingbird and learned what courage really is. That hate is fear. That violence is cowardly. That prejudice is an easy out for a lazy mind. I want Atticus Finch to be my son's hero, as he was mine.

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Summary: It was an alround good book
Review: It was a little funny and it really made you thin

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Summary: One of the best, and I'll read it again!...
Review: I chose to read this book for a literary analysis recently, but it was much better than I thought it would be. Being Southern, it's hard for me to find many accurate novels about the South, but as old as this book is, I have never read one closer to the real thing. I finished it in two days, and want to read it again as soon as I can.

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Summary: If this book was a girl I would marry it.
Review: A story that tells how life is, To Kill a Mockingbird. This is great! It doesn't hide the trouth of life. It doesn't care about feeling it is as grafic as they come. It isn't like most books that have like this farytale ending it is all ok in the end type this is real. It starts out with two kids in the summer and there early days. Just playing games and being innocent. It is about there lifes in a little town. After summer ends it is time to start school for the first time. This is a big chapter in life were the world starts to expand. This book was well written. It is Narrated by the girl in the story. The name of the girl in the story is Scout. This book reminds me of the book of Mice and Men. IT is just little everyday things in life and then somthing big and a big let down. That is what life is is a series of let downs you work hard play hard and may win but more often it is a let down. This book will keep your attention and then it will get serious and then it is a ferious ending. This book is real. I mean we all can remeber those times were we tried as hard as we could to get somthing be within inches thought you had it then bam it is gone. That is real and this book is exactly it. It is like saying to sombody this isn't fair and them saying yea but that is life. That is what this book is life. I recomend this book. It is laid back remonising on the old days then comes a trial and then a awsome end. It is a well rounded book and will keep you interested.