to kill a mockingbird

[Gowgirl]

Every time I read this I want to cry, yet I still keep going back.....anyone want to discuss?

A critic at the time described it as, "Sugar water served with humor." She was right. Sorry.

I have taught it too many damn times to have any emotional response to it whatsoever now. I can't bear to teach books I love for exams.

Found this to be one of the most overrated books.

Strange I still love this story, it becomes more currant every time as people are so judgy

To me this story is about tolerance and seriously good parenting, crunches it's not about the breastfeeding more about how you explain the fucked up world you live in!

I think I'm going to start a book club......

I feel like I should have liked it more than I did.

I liked it. I cried. But I was more underwhelmed than anything else. I don't get the hype though I admit it's beautifully written.

One of my favourite novels, i love it.

Embarrassed to say I've never read it though it's such a popular book.

You get lots of girls called Scout, but not many boys called Jem. Discuss.

Dead ringer- do you think the ewells or the family are the important aspect?

Jem would be regarded as a girl's name now,sadly. I fell in love with Gregory Peck watching this film.

Walter- it's the perfect saga of the one parent family, and I have to say atticus does it well!

I have never seen the film......

It's been one of my favourites since I first read it at 14 for school. I'm sentimentally attached to my old copy and proud to have it on my bookcase.

I wanted to name my son Atticus. DH said no. He wouldn't let me have Finch, either.
The bastard.

I wanted to name my son Atticus. DH said no. He wouldn't let me have Finch, either.
The bastard.

I read it for GCSE english, I'm too scared to read it again. I adored it and don't want to be disappointed as an adult.

I love it, read it more than any other book.

not just me then !

I love it, I've lost count of how many times I've read it. I also couldn't wait for dd to be old enough to read it, and she loves it also.

My teacher ruined so much literature with her crapness, including a good few things that had previously been favourites of mine. I was so overjoyed when she decided not to spoil this too.

I must have read it a dozen times as a kid. Absolutely loved it. As a novel it's far from perfect, but it has a lot to say about issues of race, class, gender roles. It brilliantly evokes a particular time and place. The main characters are well drawn, complex, compelling. We even get to see a fictional version of Truman Capote as a child. And parts of the book are very funny.

Oh I love this book, I have read it so many times. Really recommend the film too, Gregory Peck is a marvellous Atticus.

Scout's two word utterance at the end when they are in the bedroom makes me cry and cry.