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Originally Posted by Xanthe
I'm probably one of the few people who hasn't read it and who has no plans to read it; it's never interested me.
Glad to see that it's finally been made available in ebook form though, since it's required reading in a lot of school curricula.
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If you've avoided this novel because it sounds weighed down by a fifties-obvious message about prejudice, don't let that high school book report summary fool you. The protag's communion with outsiders is more fun than you might think, and the primary reason that people love Mockingbird is because of the main character -- an endearingly unpleasant little girl whom we've all either known or been. Before Harper Lee, you wouldn't have met a girl like that in books.
Without Harper Lee's influence, Capote's best wouldn't be quite as good as it is (and his child self is said to be the basis for Scout's neighbor, since he and Lee grew up together).