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i have to read to kill a mockingbird for class

ive heard its a classic, but how is it?

>> No.2031146

it's the worst book ever written. you should just kill yourself instead of taking that class.

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It's a very enyjoyable read. I didn't read it for shighschool, and what I readin calss was considerably worse

also i love audrey

>> No.2031149

it's a fine book, a pretty easy read and not too complicated to think about. probably going to catch a lot of shit though, because it's generally read in junior high or early high school.

>> No.2031155

Amazing book. American classic.

>> No.2031160

OP, you have to read it. Now, you can hear me say it's good, and you'll still have to read it, or you can hear me say it's bad, and you'll still have to read it, but either way, you're going to have to read it, so rather than fishing for an atittude, just hunker down and read it.

>> No.2031171

it takes like 70 minutes to read and is very enjoyable and i know that OP has no interest in the complexities of american racial dynamics and cultural hegemony so i don't want to see him coming back here saying that it sucked. there's a reason why every dummkopf on your facebook feed lists it as their fav book and it's not ENTIRELY because they're all idiots

>> No.2031184

>>2031171

It's also because they don't read unless they're forced to. Kinda fucked your own statement.

>> No.2031185

>>2031146

i've thought about it, but not because of this

thnx for the input everyone

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Ask to read Breakfast at Tiffany's instead.

Same author, better novel.

>> No.2031192

>>2031187
novellas aren't novels Truman.
Othervoices other, Rooms is good though

>> No.2031196

>>2031187

whats the point, i've already seen the film

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>>2031192

You're right, novellas are better.

>>2031196

the film started out promising but then it descended into shittyness and completely abandoned anything intellectually substancial about 20mins after that horrifically unfunny racist scene.

Read In Cold Blood, then. Or other voices, other rooms like fauve said.

Just don't forget to remind everybody who REALLY wrote mockingbird.

>> No.2031216

i was worried about reading TKAM because I don't want to read anything by a woman but it's okay because Truman Capote wrote it

>> No.2031225

>>2031211
If Truman Capote really wrote TKAM, he never ever ever would have shut up about of it as opposed to simply suggesting it enough for it to become a rumor that appealed to people who refused to believe that a woman could have written a book that every dumbfuck in America cites as their fave. You would turn on Cash Cab and every commercial break would be two minutes of Truman Capote screaming "I WROTE TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD! I WROTE TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD!!"

>> No.2031239

>>2031211

i agree mickey rooney was horrible in the film

>>2031216
this is a concern, i dont usually listen to women

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>>2031225

So they'd rather a gay person wrote it?

And why would he? Harper Lee was his good friend and he already had all the prestige and fame he needed.

Besides, 100 years TKAMB will be forgotten but In Cold Blood will still be recommended reading in every good journalism class.

Truman could see that. Besides, Harper Lee never wrote anything else afterwards or before.

Same shit happened with Percy and Mary Shelley, except that one is more generally accepted amongst literary historians.

>> No.2031251

>>2031244
hmmm, interesting theory, so what man secretely ghost-wrote virgina woolf's novels

>> No.2031261

>>2031244
>Besides, 100 years TKAMB will be forgotten but In Cold Blood will still be recommended reading in every good journalism class.

Honey no

And yes, there is a long literary tradition in place that backs up gay men, but any female writer who you didn't personally see writing out her masterwork in longhand tends to be automatically suspect! I love Truman Capote but he was a huge egotist and never would have let someone else take the credit for the one Great American Novel that people who never fucking read cop to loving.

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>>2031251

nobody that's why she sucks lol

>>2031261

Capote may have had a bit of an ego but Harper was his childhood friend, and any writer who spontaneously writes a book as great as TKAMB or Frankenstein's Monster and never writes anything again or since should be suspect.

Obviously there's no way to prove it really, but I think there is good reason Truman Capote at least heavily edited TKAMB. The Mary Shelley thing is far more concrete, however.

>> No.2031295

god damn capote was handsome

>> No.2031300

saged and reported for underage

>> No.2031303

>>2031290

No.

>> No.2031305

>>2031300

i'm 19

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>>2031303

yep

>> No.2031327

>>2031311
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5244492

No.

>> No.2031388

>>2031327

tl;dr if you don't agree with me you're a mysognist

anyway that article is retarded, why would he tell his Aunt that he had been helping her write the book?

She bought truman to Kansas with her when she went to write it.

>> No.2031606

>>2031137
I don't think you can kill a bird that way.

>> No.2032475

It's as good as anything written specifically about period racism by people other than Clemens can really be.

tldr; not *very* good

>> No.2032525

I haven't read it in about 10 years so I don't 100% remember the book. But I do remember enjoying it. Best thing to do is try to forget about the movie and focus on the book. Also this:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/mockingbird

>> No.2032531

I read it in 6th grade, and again in 10th at a different school..

The boo Radley part is cool but it's pretty lame. It's not hard to understand at all.