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Has anyone read it yet? I bought the book today and I'm a bit nervous about reading it... I so don't want to be disappointed. I've deliberately avoided reading any reviews because I don't want to be influenced. Anyone having the same dilema?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/opinion/joe-nocera-the-watchman-fraud.html?_r=0
And you need to remember that this book was written first, so Atticus will be different in his fictional old age. He started that way and became the younger character in the original book.
Not sure how much you know about what it is, Claudia, so don't want to say too much.
But even so, i think I could probably disassociate myself from the characters in the one book to read them as new characters in the second. It's the quality of the writing, the feeling the book has always given me, the mystery, the love, the truth that I hopee will not be influenced from the second.
I have it in case I change my mind.
A good point Carol-something most 'reviewers' are ignoring. Mockingbird was written because the publishers rejected Watchman feeling the characters weren't developed enough. Hence the backstory in Mockingbird. Can't review either as I've not read them. I always struggle reading the original after seeing the filmed version and obviously the film was a classic. I remember my daughter reading Mockingbird for GCSE but if I recall she didn't like it much.
I suspect a lot of people are probably the same, just watched the film rather than reading the book and then get a bit touchy if anything interferes with their memories.
Joanne Harris did a studied review of Watchman so I'd rather listen to her than some of the other nay-sayers.
I loved the book so much when we read it at school (aged 12) my English teacher gave me my school copy and bought another for the school herself. I still have that book.