To kill a mocking bird or not?

[foxydebs]

How many people genuinely chose to read either book?

 

Many people i know only know of either book since its inception as a film, then there are those who have had to read it for academic reasons. Apart from that i don't know anyone who has read them.

Unlike Dickens and Austen.

 

I chose to read to kill a mockingbird and go set a watchman and not for academic reasons.

[horribleblob]

An interesting thread, samssong.

 

I’ve not read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ or ‘The Catcher in the Rye’, although I have seen the 60s film of the former, as well as a couple of stage adaptations.

 

Generally speaking, I’m more influenced by non-fiction, including biographies and autobiographies, and the novels that have influenced me haven’t necessarily been favourites but those that have pointed me onwards.

 

I wouldn’t say that novels by the giants that are Dickens and Steinbeck have influenced me greatly, because when I read them, I was already in tune with what they were saying.

 

For this thread, to boil it down to just two (not based on literary merit by any means): ‘On the Road’ (Jack Kerouac) and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (Charlotte Perkins Gilman).

Edited March 6, 2016 by horribleblob

[samssong]

An interesting thread, samssong.

 

I’ve not read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ or ‘The Catcher in the Rye’, although I have seen the 60s film of the former, as well as a couple of stage adaptations.

 

Generally speaking, I’m more influenced by non-fiction, including biographies and autobiographies, and the novels that have influenced me haven’t necessarily been favourites but those that have pointed me onwards.

 

I wouldn’t say that novels by the giants that are Dickens and Steinbeck have influenced me greatly, because when I read them, I was already in tune with what they were saying.

 

For this thread, to boil it down to just two (not based on literary merit by any means): ‘On the Road’ (Jack Kerouac) and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (Charlotte Perkins Gilman).

Try, Up In The Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell not fiction but, you could not make it up if you tried.

[Dissertation]

To Kill A Mockingbird is definitely one of my favorites... not read Catcher in the Rye though

[samssong]

I liked both your choices, I read the ragged trousered philanthropist in the eighties when Thatcherism was at its peak. It struck a chord with me then as something that had been written at tha turn of the 19/20 century and still relevant as people were scared then of losing their jobs.

I haven't read Cannery row for a few years but would also recommend 'Sweet Thursday' by the same author. A lot of the same great characters in a story that moves around. Will Doc finally get it off with Suzy? I'll not spoil the ending.

Suzy gave Doc the knock back ,I can't believe it ,cried my self to sleep.

[teddie]

I think To kill a mockingbird is my favourite book. I did it for O'level and the teacher I had at the time was brilliant, I had always loved reading but she really brought to details the way to 'read a book' and it has stayed with me forever. That is the only half decent thing I can say about my schooling.

[TORONTONY]

Problem I have with Catcher in the Rye is that it was the "bible" of Mark, David Chapman and was a strong influence in his murder of John Lennon. Not that it has anything to do with the author, but the title of the book still gives me the shudders.

[gomgeg]

Suzy gave Doc the knock back ,I can't believe it ,cried my self to sleep.

Hazel makes the ultimate sacrifice, to show what true friendship is. What a guy.