Reviews

Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur by Harper Lee

mybeautifulillusion's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

starrynight251's review against another edition

5.0

There's a reason why it's always been read in schools. Beautiful story

natisayan's review against another edition

3.0

This is a great book. My only problem with it though is that the beginning is too slow. I didn't think that Boo was enough to keep the story going. I really enjoyed the court scenes and I was devastated when I heard the verdict. Harper Lee did a great job showing the cruelty and discrimination against race at the time.


P.S. I highly recommend watching the biography on Emmet Til. It's truly heartbreaking.

signedmichelle's review against another edition

5.0

Confession: I was supposed to read this book in high school. I’m pretty sure I read a few pages and the rest were CliffsNotes. Now, I have to say, it bums me out that it took me so long to read, but I’m sure I wouldn’t have appreciated it as much as I do now.

This book has everything I want in a good story and tackles a tough, uncomfortable subject like racism. And Atticus Finch has to be one of the greatest characters in literature. His parenting style and how he carries himself is just pure class.

This is definitely a must have book for my personal library.

daniella_ek04's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

andreaokada's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

merricatadamtine's review against another edition

5.0

I recently read three books in succession that told the story of childhood through the lens of an adult author, "Wild Things" by Dave Eggers, "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" and "To Kill a Mocking Bird". Of the three, Lee was best able to capture the true interior life of a child, without letting her adult perspective of childhood skew the story too much. The other two books made the mistake of letting their feelings about childhood get in the way of their expressing the meaning of childhood. Eggers mistake was that he tried to translate the actions of Max into a grown up perspective ("Why does Max act this way? Because he's confused.") and then solve it with an adult solution, (Max is self centered, he learns not to be by having to take care of an island of wild things). In "Lemon Cake" the author is given a special gift of being to feel her mother's innermost feelings. The result is that she grows up sooner than she should have too, since she can experience on an innermost level her mother’s angst and agony. Only Lee is able to create the character of Scout, from the ages of 5-8 as a true child, with her limited understanding (or concern) of the world of adults, or even her older brother Jem. Scout grows and matures only because of one thing, time. Even with the dramatic climax at the end, culminating with her and Jem's near death, she is not wise beyond her years, but she is able to comprehend an idea of justice that goes beyond just right and wrong. Having read this book originally in middle school English class I was glad to have the chance to read it again and come at it from a new perspective. Then I only had eyes for the strong willed, precocious tomboy, Scout. Now, I was able to feel for Atticus as a single parent, and wonder at the private transformation Jem endures as he becomes a pre-teen. It makes me realize, as my son is reading this now in his middle school class, that we can not really teach the classics, but only expose our children to them, so that not only will they have the experience of reading them now, but later in life they can return to them as old friends.

maunierasamel's review against another edition

1.0

This book is extremely boring. I spent 20 days enduring this bland storyline and forcing myself to like this book. I really don't understand why it's rated so highly! Or am I just not the right audience for this book? I kept cajoling myself into thinking that the story will pickup in the next few pages, but every single time I was wrong. The book felt like one flat patch of land that seems to continue with no direction, boundary, peaks or even dips. I got through half of the book and I still didn't quite understand the point of the plot. Was it a general story of this particular community and neighbourhood? Was it a story about the growing up years of the children characters? Was the book about racism? I really found no answer to these questions even when I was more than half into the book. Since I had anyway wasted so many days trying to get through this book, I kept feeling guilty of shelving it and moving on to another book. But there was a point where I felt I had endured enough. I really couldn't go beyond page 130. I was extremely bored, disappointed and felt like I was unnecessarily punishing myself.

Seriously, it's just boring and terrible and I don't wish to waste even another minute thinking about it.

nbritt's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

n_1ve's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25