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What is it about To Kill A Mockingbird?

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TooTicky · 01/04/2007 14:22

So many MNers mention it as a favourite on their profiles and I love it too. So what is the attraction?
For me, more than anything, it's the realness - the descriptions, the characters, the dialogue - everything is just so right. Of course it is also politically good and the story riveting all the way through, but it is the exceptional quality of the writing that really makes it for me.
Anyone else?

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TooTicky · 01/04/2007 14:28

Every so often I look up Harper Lee on the internet in the vain hope that she has written something else. I suppose it's a hard act to follow though.

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FrannyandZooey · 01/04/2007 14:26

I agree - it gets under your skin because it feels as if you are being taken aside and quietly told a story, one so rooted in reality that you can see, hear, smell and touch the people and places described. It also describes the world of a child with total conviction.

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