Go Set A Watchman is the follow-up to Harper Lee's classic "To Kill a Mockingbird," with the characters brought forward in time 20 years.
TKaM is one of those books that has ignited a fire in pre- and adolescent readers to get them to read. I know a number of people who have said that the book started their passion to read.
Which for sure made me want to like the book even more!!!
And then..... and then.....
There is an interesting controversy surrounding Go Set A Watchman. The book was the original manuscript that Lee took to publish, and then after 2 years of re-writing, she changed the title and published it as To Kill a Mockingbird.
This reads like a first draft. I wanted to like it... I wanted to love it. But wow, really, it should never have been published.
Part of the problem is that it was published 2 months after Lee's sister (and basically, guardian) passed away. Harper Lee was 89 years old, and had said since the 1950s that she would never publish another book. It feels like the publishing house waited until she couldn't stage a good protest, and then capitalized on her name.
Everyone should read To Kill a Mockingbird. It is one of the top 20 novels written by an American. It is fulfilling and wonderful and worth every minute to read. Honest-- skip Watchman.
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