Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird by Harold Bloom

Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird Reviews

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  Anthony

  Is it possible that everybody who wrote a review for this book thinks they are reviewing Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird?
  We can all agree that Harold Bloom has enriched the world of English literature with his criticism, anthologies and his consummate influence. However, even Dr. Bloom would agree that the reviews of this book are stealing Ms. Lee's thunder.
  
  Dr. Bloom, you are still a literary Titan. And thank you especially for your prolific Shakespearean criticism, which has helped me muddle through divers lengthy (occasionally drudging) papers on the Bard.
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  Bérénice

  To everyone reviewing this book 5/5 thinking they are reviewing Harper Lee's actual book... This is a READING GUIDE to her book. You are here reviewing the READING GUIDE. Ahhhhh... Now that I'm done ranting, this guide has done much good for my research and I thank Harold Bloom for it.
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  Ruth

  I love this book! I learned so much form it. Yeah, it was an assingment for a class but i still liked it! I learned not to be racist and many other stuff, u should really read it!
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  Kathleen Valentine

  I wish I could give it 10 stars! I appreciated it much more this time than I did years ago and it seems more relevant now than ever before. When a man of great dignity and intelligence methodically and deliberately attempts to right wrongs, those who cannot tolerate the truth, have to try to diminish him.
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  Laurie Mazzoli

  still one of the best around
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  Sonya Davis

  Read this book in high school. The unfortunate thing is I didn't know how 'true to life's this story was until decades after (not American). It captured the essence of the issues of that time and the change they wanted to make as many blacks were not given the privilege of the justice system but given over to angry mobs to be hung.
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  Saud Altamimi

  جميع المقالات لا بأس بها، لكن المقالتان الأخيرتان جيدتان بشكل مدهش:
  
  Kathryn Lee Seidel on Scout's identity
  Challenge and evolution in the novel
  
  و
  
  Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin on the use of humor in the trial
  
  كذلك فإن الخلفية التاريخية المعدّة عن الرواية مهمة. و مقدمة Harold Bloom شاملة و رصينة.
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  Jiv Johnson

  this book ages so badly and is almost always taught in schools as almost a chore. it is a chore to read this book. none of the characters are worth a shit except Atticus. the book is worth reading almost entirely just so u can see Atticus be a chad
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  Baz

  A real page turner. Great read.
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  Shannon McFarland

  A book I can read again and again and each time, walk away with something new.
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  Helen Harnan

  Fantastic book
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  Dale Medley

  The greatest American novel? This is my vote.
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  Maureen Bauer

  I recently re-read this novel and enjoyed it even more. I think we sometimes remember a story based on a film, and miss that there is so much more in the novel than just what is going on during the trial in the courtroom. Granted, those events are the climax of the story, and also the conflicting image of this sleepy Southern town and it's inhabitants. But my enjoyment of my last reading centered around the early descriptions of the town, it's people, the children's events, adventures and freedoms. Like in "The book thief", the question is raised, what if you live in these times, but don't agree with the prevailing ideology of that time? Atticus Finch's actions try to answer those questions, even when he can't prevent the tragedy of what occurred to Tom, there are others who help prevent a tragedy that almost happened to Atticus closer to home.
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  Sue

  I adore this book, plain and simple.
  
  The book transports you back to small town America in the 1930s so beautifully that, you can really feel the time and place seen through 10 year old Scout's eyes. Her hero worship of her father, the admirable Atticus Finch and his sense of what is right is palpable as is her inability to comprehend why the adult world functions as it does.
  
  Every time I read this book, I never fail to cry when Atticus says "Thank you for my children, Arthur."
  
  For this reason, I will not be reading the recently published "Go Set a Watchman". Anything which interferes with the Atticus I know and love, from this book, cannot be borne.....
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  Colleen Moore

  I read this as a child over and over again. I really loved it. I was 10 or 11 the first time I read it. I didn't know it was a social commentary on race at the time I read it, I just loved the kids and really identified with them.
  
  I read it again years later as an adult and was blown away again but he subtext that I did not consciously pick up on as a child.
  
  I definitely recommend it to everyone.
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  Hubert

  Only wished it were longer! A nice collection of well-written essays that range from analyses of the legal situations that occur in all points of the book, to feminist interpretations to comparisons with the movie. A detailed listing of letters against or in support of the ban on the book in Hanover County Virginia in 1965.
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  Denise Hartzler

  A true literary classic. Aside from the characters, what I love most about this book is that you can't separate the characters from the place or from the outcome - it is that tightly woven. A true masterpiece and a yearly re-read for me.
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  Deb Todd

  Re-reading this book as an adult, I loved it more than I did when I was in school. It's timeless. If you've read it, read it again. The book pictured here is not the right book . This is a commentary on To Kill A Mockingbird. I read the book not the commentary.