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Harper Lee to publish Mockingbird 'sequel'


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I haven't read "To Kill a Mockingbird". To me it looks like the first book was good, but the editor didn't think it appealed enough to sell. Perhaps it was a stroke of genius telling Lee to focus on the flashbacks. Remember that in the 50s the stories about lawyers, trials and courts were very successful, at least in cinema; more important was the rising social uproar against racial discrimination. Why have a book set in that time, with important contemporary elements figuring in flashbacks, when you could have those flashbacks in the present as the story itself?

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I really liked To Kill a Mockingbird and I was pleased to see this new 'sequel' was actually written around the same time. On the other hand, part of the charm of To Kill a

Mockingbird was that it's written from the child's viewpoint. This one will be from the adult Scout, so I do have my doubts as to whether it will be as good.

Still definitely want to read it and find out though :D

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Raven, you must, must, MUST read To Kill A Mockingbird - it's a wonderful, wonderful book. And this most be one of the most eagerly and long awaited follow ups in publishing history. I spy a bestseller on the horizon. :)

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Interesting news! I haven't read To Kill a Mockingbird since secondary school, back then I liked it. It should be interesting to see what the sequel is like. I'm positive someone posted somewhere that they were concerned.. was it one of you on Facebook perhaps? My memory fails me..

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Is she really? Makes it even more suspect. Why now after all these years?

 

I think I'll wait for the reviews on this one before I go jumping in. As much as I love Mockingbird I'm skeptical of what this will be like.

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Perhaps me? I posted a long message about it on Facebook, saying that I was concerned that they might be taking advantage of Harper Lee because she's rather senile these days. :(

Yes, I remember reading that! I hope they won't take advantage of him :(.

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I think I'm going to be in the minority who have read To Kill A Mockingbird but have absolutely no interest in reading this one.  Knowing what the role of editors were back in those days, I can't help feeling they knew what they were doing and got the best book out of the material, and that this might not work.

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I"m not sure that anyone would expect it to be anywhere near as good as To Kill a Mockingbird, but I think it'll still be worth reading.

 

Melodious, thanks for the link to the article. It didn't do much to allay my concerns, but the historian's comments at the very end were a bit reassuring. At least we've now heard from someone other than her lawyer!

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I still haven't decided whether I want to pre-order this or whether I can wait until it comes out in paperback. I have to say, though, I much prefer the US cover (which is also in the link that Chesil posted above).

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