To Kill a Mockingbird (Enhanced Edition) (Harperperennial Modern Classics)

Couldn't stop reading. Harper Lee is an excellent author, pulls you right in. Highly recommend this book, makes you think.

I understand why some people want to ban this book, and it’s less the liberal use of the n-word than it is the ugliness of those who utter it.Seeing casual hatred and bigotry laid bare like this is hard, and I’m not ashamed to admit I cried. If one doesn’t quite grasp that this fictional story is lived too often by too many, seeing it laid bare would touch a raw nerve. It irritates a wound that the ignorant and hateful would rather ignore. But wounds don’t heal when they’re ignored, and if we want to be a healthy society, if we want better for our children than we had, we need to look at the hard, hurtful parts.I was 46 before I read this, and I wish I’d been younger. I wish I’d heard the heart of Atticus Finch when I’d been Scout and Jem’s age. I hope everyone learns to hear the heart of Atticus Finch. Including the folks who would ban it.

I first read this book in high school, more than fifty years ago and it was just as good and sadly just as relevant now as it was then. On the surface it is a pristine example of a bildugsroman, a beautifully crafted story of an adult lady looking back on her childhood and that singular turning point in her life when she realized that she was no longer looking at the world through just the eyes of a child.In a larger sense however it is an indictment of the snobbery, prejudice and bigotry that was so prevalent in that area at that time. Unfortunately for all concerned it still is and moreover with the technical advances in communications and transportation combined with our tendency to move about looking for that perfect spot to live it, has been shipped from its birthplace in the deep South to encompass the whole damned country!Enough of my rant and back to the book. The charming mix of the adult and child points of view as the adult Scout's vocabulary and literacy slips in is a highlight of this book. This is a book that everyone should read at least twice in their life, once as a pre-teen or teen and again as an adult, preferably in their child rearing years. If you haven't read this book read it, if you have, read it again, you won't be sorry.

I really enjoyed the book. Started slow but picked up pace as it went. Everything comes together at the end. It really was a good read that addressed a lot of social problems. But it wasn’t a book I just couldn’t sit down. 4 *’s may be generous. 3.5 is more like it.I could have done without the one use of God’s name in vain in the last chapter.

If you enjoy reading true literature or just like a perfectly written story, you MUST read this book. Any book that still has teenagers reading it because they WANT to must have something going for it. And I think it says more to us as adults than it would to teens. If I could only have one book on a desert island, it would be this one.

I read this in school and loved it. I have read twice since and find the love is still fresh. I pray there are good honest people in this world today.

Read again for what seemed like first time after 45 years and found it to be charming and profound and scarily relevant still!

This is a book I was suppose to read in school but somehow never did. I probably copied someone else's book report. This book was very good, very well written, had lots of emotion, and lots of lessons to be learned. I grew up during the 50's and lived in the North. We did not have the racial prejudice that raged in the South. I have read many books on this subject since getting my Kindle 2 years ago. I am amazed at the hatred, the injustice, the humiliation, the unfairness and any other adjective like it that was forced upon the black people of our country. This book brings to light the probable many trials that happened during that time period that were first unfair and second showed the spinelessness of the people on the jury. No one wanted to be the one to step up and say this is wrong because no one wanted to be tormented by the rest of the town for letting a black man go free because his word was accepted and the white mans wasn't. I think this book should still be a must read for every child in school. Perhaps the 8th or 9th grade. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and am very glad it became a Kindle book.

Un livre qui mérite sa réputation.Même si on connaît l’histoire (vu le film), on fait une meilleure connaissance de tous les personnages.De plus on apprend énormément sur l’histoire et la société américaine des années 30.Un livre passionnant et merveilleux

A classic work of literature. I'm not sure it was intended as a children's book, I don't think YA really existed back then, but there is a naivete to having the story told through the eyes of a child, which makes this really easy to read, but at the same time dealing with the complex layering of issues of race at that time. It lays bare the stupidity and hypocrisy that underpins racism. In contemporary literature we would object to notions of white saviours, but at the time this was written, it required those white saviours to make the changes in the law.

I've meant to read this for years and years and I NEVER got to it until now! I'm glad I did!

Great book, lived up to its Hype, great characters, excellent story line, thought provoking

As readers we often unconsciously take on the role of a critic. And then judge a book against our expectations and within the confines of our biases and the limitations of our intellectual and imaginative capabilities.Every once in a while there comes along a piece of work that shakes your foundation and moves you someplace else. It's a work wherein the author has pushed the entire pile of envelopes and challenged many senses. The narrative is so compelling and multi-faceted, weaving anecdote with literary excellence, history, culture and creating a wonderful lesson in morality without a hint of preachiness.This book will endure and I hope my grandchildren get to experience it and that it moves them in a way it has me. And that they're stronger in character through that experience.