To Kill a Mockingbird
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South--and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father--a crusading local lawyer--risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
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It's a good story, and well told. I was a little disappointed, though, in a way that's not really fair: There's not much more here than there is in the movie. I don't think I've ever seen a movie that sticks quite so closely to the book. The problem being, of course, that I've seen the movie half a dozen times and I'm just now reading the book. I had hoped for a lot more here, something that would take it beyond the movie. Didn't get it. But like I said, that's not really fair.
My favorite part of the book, I think, was the characters. They are so fully developed. Had I not seen the movie, I'm sure I'd still be able to picture Atticus and Dill and Jem and the rest of them. The plot itself is also interesting, though I am left to wonder why Amazon has this on their "top-selling mysteries" list—it's not really a mystery, is it? I'd have a hard time categorizing it. On the back of the jacket it says that the author considered it "a simple love story." If she actually said that, I think she was being disingenuous at best. I'm hard pressed even to find the "love story" she might be referring to (Scout & Dill? Scout & Boo?), and obviously there's a lot more going on here.
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