Friday, August 28, 2015

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

So much has been written about Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, I hesitate to even bother to review it here.  So I’ll be brief.

It’s 1955 and “Scout” Jean Louise Finch is now 26 years old and has moved to New York.  She comes home to Alabama to visit her aging father, Atticus and learns he has more bigoted views than she thought he did.  They argue about it and she decides she loves him anyway.  That’s it.  There’s more plot in a Kardashian reality TV show.

This is no To Kill a Mockingbird.  In fact Harper Lee wrote it before To Kill a Mockingbird and thought it not worthy of being published.  She was right.  Apparently someone very close to the now 89 year old Harper Lee needed some cash and knew something about marketing.  What a scam.

1 comment:

  1. Dave, very disappointing, and on your recommendation, I'll let this one get by me.

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