Just saw it on fb, I'll definitely read it. 

Hey, so, really not meaning to be a downer, sorry, but still fascinating… and sad!  Having never known much on Harper in the past, I found the bits in the first article interesting about realizing 'why' there had never been anything else published from her, with not wanting to deal with publicity/scrutiny/novel comparisons, etc, and how her sister had long been her advocate and 'shield' with all that.  Unfortunately, with sister's death a while ago, and Harper's bad health, I wonder how truthfully close to home this countering article I found is: 

http://jezebel.com/be-suspicious-of-the-new-harper-lee-novel-1683488258


Attitudes change… or maybe needed the money, but it's still strange.  How do people feel about works being posthumously put out, then, whether because the author didn't get a chance to, or never chose to while alive? (or heck, even finished, like in the case of… who was it a while back, Robert Jordan's series?)  Just has me wondering about all this happening now...

Wow, he took his time

Yes.  Harper Lee is female. 

RIP Harper Lee.
http://www.mtv.com/news/2742763/harper-lee-dead-to-kill-a-mockingbird/

I haven't read her new book yet, has anyone here read it?

Last edited by ukaunz (February 21, 2016 4:36 am)

Oh, I liked it, but haven't finished it yet (which is actually no reflection on the book - I'm very, very bad at jumping around from book to book and often have more than 20 on the go).   Having read about it, I went into it with fairly low expectations.   It's a different kind of story, seen through young adult eyes instead of a child's eyes.  Quite funny in parts too. 

I had mixed feelings about it being published.  I know Harper Lee had resisted for years and may have been taken advantage of - I don't really know the truth of it all.  I did think that maybe it was nice that she should have it published and have the money before she died. 

I have yet to read it.  I kind of wanted to let some time pass, let the hype dissipate, before I went into it, since I had been hearing things on the news about people getting mad about the stuff about how Atticus wasn't as much of a "saint" as in To Kill a Mockingbird.
I'm inclined to think Go Set a Watchman is a bit of an alternate world of the book, since it was the original rejected version.

Last edited by Yitzock (February 21, 2016 2:54 pm)