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Location: SE Louisiana | ... a young lady wrote a story...... When she was done, she went about trying to get it published... Time after time she was turned down... but.... someone saw potential.... This person read her story about a young woman and told her to go home and write anther story about this young woman when she was a child.... So she did...
Thus we were granted with the Pulitzer Prize winning book named 'To Kill A Mockingbird'.
Fast forward to the year 2015.... We finally get to see the book Harper Lee originally tried to get published... "Go Set A Watchman"... Available on July 14th...
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Location: Aubrey, Texas | To Kill a Mockingbird is simply great- one of the few instances (IMHO) where the movie was as good as the book. I'm looking forward to the "new" book, as well. You know that Harper Lee was childhood friends with Truman Capote. Truman once said, "I learned early on the difference between good writing and bad. It was only later that I discovered the difference between good writing and Art. It's subtle, but it's savage." TKAM crossed over into the realm of Art in my opinion. |
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Location: In a happy place | Komet please remind us closer to that date. I want it. My chemo brain keeps me from remembering some things. So I would appreciate a reminder. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | sorrel horse ranch - 2015-05-18 12:04 PM
Komet please remind us closer to that date. I want it. My chemo brain keeps me from remembering some things. So I would appreciate a reminder.
Will do SHR... I really miss smoking weed... It affects the short term memory... So I could read a great book for the first time.... 4 or 5 times!!!
I'm sorry you have to go through something like that...
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| I love To Kill a Mockingbird. Truely one of the greatest books of all time. But I'm kinda scared about the new one. I've heard that TKM was heavily edited and went through many rewrites before being published. What we read is not what Harper Lee wrote the first time and sent to all those publishers. The first draft wasn't the beautifully written story we know and treasure. But this "new" manuscript is literally a first draft. No editing, no reshaping or fine tuning. I also believe the lawyer is taking advantage of Ms. Lee. She could have published that book at any time if she had wanted to. I don't think the manuscript was ever lost. |
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Location: Sunny So Cal | nance - 2015-05-18 7:37 PM I love To Kill a Mockingbird. Truely one of the greatest books of all time. But I'm kinda scared about the new one. I've heard that TKM was heavily edited and went through many rewrites before being published. What we read is not what Harper Lee wrote the first time and sent to all those publishers. The first draft wasn't the beautifully written story we know and treasure. But this "new" manuscript is literally a first draft. No editing, no reshaping or fine tuning. I also believe the lawyer is taking advantage of Ms. Lee. She could have published that book at any time if she had wanted to. I don't think the manuscript was ever lost.
Did not know that! Super excited to read this "new" book. Wish there was some way to read TKM before all the edits. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | I love book threads......will have to find to kill a mockingbird..as i have never read it...thanks guys and gals...m |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | mruggles - 2015-05-19 5:16 PM I love book threads......will have to find to kill a mockingbird..as i have never read it...thanks guys and gals...m
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Location: SE Louisiana | nance - 2015-05-18 9:37 PM
I love To Kill a Mockingbird. Truely one of the greatest books of all time. But I'm kinda scared about the new one. I've heard that TKM was heavily edited and went through many rewrites before being published. What we read is not what Harper Lee wrote the first time and sent to all those publishers. The first draft wasn't the beautifully written story we know and treasure. But this "new" manuscript is literally a first draft. No editing, no reshaping or fine tuning. I also believe the lawyer is taking advantage of Ms. Lee. She could have published that book at any time if she had wanted to. I don't think the manuscript was ever lost.
When you consider the time-frame it came out in, it's not too hard to understand why some editor would attack it. I am surprised it did as well as it did in this country. I was alive when it was published and by the time I got to high school it was required reading in my school. I was not aware 'Watchman' was ever considered to be lost.
But, considering the time-frame, I'm amazed Dr. Zhivago did so well, coming on the heels of The Red Scare. |
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| komet. - 2015-05-19 7:07 PM nance - 2015-05-18 9:37 PM I love To Kill a Mockingbird. Truely one of the greatest books of all time. But I'm kinda scared about the new one. I've heard that TKM was heavily edited and went through many rewrites before being published. What we read is not what Harper Lee wrote the first time and sent to all those publishers. The first draft wasn't the beautifully written story we know and treasure. But this "new" manuscript is literally a first draft. No editing, no reshaping or fine tuning. I also believe the lawyer is taking advantage of Ms. Lee. She could have published that book at any time if she had wanted to. I don't think the manuscript was ever lost. When you consider the time-frame it came out in, it's not too hard to understand why some editor would attack it. I am surprised it did as well as it did in this country. I was alive when it was published and by the time I got to high school it was required reading in my school. I was not aware 'Watchman' was ever considered to be lost. But, considering the time-frame, I'm amazed Dr. Zhivago did so well, coming on the heels of The Red Scare.
I think the book did so well because it captured the truth of that time. The ugliness of segregation and discrimination but also the innocence and beauty of childhood. And like someone else said, the movie is just as good as the book. |
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Location: Kansas | Southtxponygirl - 2015-05-19 6:02 PM mruggles - 2015-05-19 5:16 PM I love book threads......will have to find to kill a mockingbird..as i have never read it...thanks guys and gals...m The movie is just as good, you got to watch it
.............and did you know Robert Duvall's acting debut was as the dreaded "Boo" Radley in this movie.
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Location: In a happy place | komet. - 2015-05-18 12:12 PM sorrel horse ranch - 2015-05-18 12:04 PM Komet please remind us closer to that date. I want it. My chemo brain keeps me from remembering some things. So I would appreciate a reminder. Will do SHR... I really miss smoking weed... It affects the short term memory... So I could read a great book for the first time.... 4 or 5 times!!! I'm sorry you have to go through something like that...
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