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Summary: A great book worth reading
Review: This book is one of the most greatest book that explains racism in the South, showing how people strive for justice for someone of another color.
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Summary: Inspiring!
Review: Harper Lee takes us to the heart of an institution called the family. I found this book not only inspiring, but suspenseful. There is only one problem: it doesn't have a main plot or problem. It is just a story of a few years in the life of the Finches.
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Summary: This book stinks!!!!!
Review: This book is lacking creativity of chacters and of imagination of plot.Harper Lee has written a 281 page documentory of nothing. It uses unutterable words and displeasing language. I waw required to read this book and hope I will never have to read it again. It is a slow unresearched peice of literature that has been overated for years.
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Summary: It's a very inspring book!
Review: I read To Kill A MockingBird as an english text. The book was slow for the first couple of chapters, but then pulled me in. Harper's use of language and the imagination of Scout really set it off. Thanks for writing a true to life novel!
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: I read this one after having been told for ten years that "I cannot believe you've read so many books and missed this one!" I had balked because I know that this book is routinely assigned to eighth graders, and was concerned that I'd be underwhelmed by the novel's level of "sophistication". I can happily say that my apprehensions were ridiculously misplaced.True - the writing is generally pretty facile, only occasionally brilliant: "...like Mount Everest, she was cold and there." This notwithstanding, the development of theme, and the beautiful ideals described by this novel make it both timeless and necessary. Harper Lee has done that to which we should all aspire: extracted a kernal of nobility from the human experience.
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Summary: The best book I've ever read!
Review: What is sad is if you read all the reviews on here you'll see one or two who slate the book without much reason. This book is a fantastic tale that shows racial and other prejudice for what it is: shameful. It's a shame not everyone can learn from this book and Atticus Finch! Give it a chance, buy this book!
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Summary: Great book!! It's very moving and I recomend it to anyone.
Review: This book was so good that When I finally got my 13yr.old- anti-book -sister to read it she couldn't put it down. This moving novel about a brother and sister who learn valuble life lessons by watcing thier wise, lawyer/ father go against the grain as he defends a negro on a rape charge to a white women. They learn to control thier anger aginst most of the town who opposes thier fathers decision and learn more out of the whole trial than they'll ever know.
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Summary: A GREAT BOOK!
Review: I read this book two years ago when I was in tenth grade. It was a class assignment, and I have to say, it was the best book I've ever had to read for school. It was interesting and very well written. That explains why I got such a good grade on the book test. Read it! You'll love it! A true classic!
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Summary: Cry Outloud Beauty to Clear the Modern Mind
Review: This is one of the most stunning lovely books I've ever read--I did not read it in 9th grade, I read it my first time as an Assistant Professor of English at a college in California. It was the favorite book of so many of my friends I decided to turn aside from the more "adult," intellectual work I'd been doing and check in on Scout and Atticus. What I found absorbed me entirely, and although it is sweeter and simpler in its characterizations of our human but Capra-esque heroes, it is also about continuing ugliness in the racially conflicted world we live in. E.g., Capra, with punch. It provides remarkable messages about how to be human, how to embrace what's right even when it will result in some kind of disaster--and it's wonderfully written. I love this book. Reading it was like finding a really good new friend--
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Summary: Books like this are why I love literature.
Review: The first time I read TKAM (as I abbreviated it in my diary), I didn't find myself intrigued at all by it. It seemed oddly distant and uninteresting -- but at the same time, there were little moments in it that got under my skin and refused to leave. It wasn't until almost twenty years later that I re-read the book again, without prejudice, and with a clearer mind -- and rediscovered my old dictum: It is not the book, but the reader, that must change. The story's relatively uncomplicated: a young girl and her older brother growing up in the Depression-gripped Deep South. Around them is the whirl of personalities and lives that make up their town, but expressed in a way that seemes photographically realistic instead of fanciful or mythopoetically exaggerated. The book has the ring of truth on so many levels -- didn't YOU have a house in your neighborhood that no one else wanted to come near? -- that it was just impossible to ignore. And the final five pages alone canonize the book all by themselves: when Boo Radley whispers, "Will you take me home?" I felt tears come to my eyes the way they hadn't in ages. All the more heartbreaking when you learn that Harper Lee never wrote another novel after this one -- but strangely appropriate, too, because I gather she had gotten it perfectly the first time. No crime in that, I guess. With a book of this stature I'm prepared to forgive almost anything.
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