Go set a watchman by Harper Lee.

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Posted: 10 years ago
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Hello, bibliophiles.
Anybody a fan of To Kill a Mockingbird? Almost everyone who has had the luxury to read the book is. Am I right? Of course I am. So you guys must be flabbergasting-ly excited for the sequel. Aren't you?

So Harper Lee has decided to publish the sequel to her first and only classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Surprisingly, the book that would succeed the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel was written ages ago and before the earliest draft of To Kill a Mockingbird. She had written Go set a watchman featuring Scout as an adult woman, her editor fascinated and tantalized by the flashbacks of Scout's childhood persuaded her to write a book based on Scout's childhood. Being a first-time write she agreed. Now after 55 years she has decided to publish the book-that-was-supposed-to-precede-To-Kill-a-Mocking-Bird as the sequel-To-Kill-A-Mockingbird. I wonder what took her so long.

I sound excited and I am. I read To Kill a Mockingbird the former month only and hence my memory of the book's fresh. However I do have a lot speculations and suspicions regarding the ascendancy of the sequel. Of course it will be good but I'm not sure if it will be as good as the first novel. It surely won't be a disappointment but would it appease the excitement and expectations of the fans? Sure it will.

I have been double-thinking. Now, I want to know what do you people have in your minds regarding the book?
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Posted: 10 years ago
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My first reaction was definitely surprise followed by excitement. Even though it's been a long while since I read To Kill A Mockingbird it is one of the few books which have really stayed with me so the news that we'll get a new story with the grown up Scout was definitely thrilling. Now will it be as good as To Kill A Mockingbird? I honestly don't know but it won't matter. One thing that has always bothered me was TKAM was the only book she wrote so to know there is another book in the wings and Scout's story is still not finished is somewhat comforting. So I, for one, am really really looking forward to it.


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Posted: 10 years ago
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Can't wait to read it!!!! But at the same time I'm going in with low expectations.

I wish Harper Lee hadn't quit post To Kill A Mockingbird.
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Posted: 10 years ago
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That's an awesome news,indeed!
To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my absolute favorites so I can hardly wait .!

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