5.82k reviews for:

Go Set a Watchman

Harper Lee

3.21 AVERAGE

hjtimon625's review against another edition

3.25

emotional informative medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

qui_b's review

1.0

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Do NOT waste your time.  Harper Lee’s publisher was right in rejecting this.  The entrenched racism is impossible to swallow and Jean Louise is impossibly shallow.  THIS is how kick-ass Scout turned out?  Ick.  Extremely dated, although probably daring for its time.

booklover_tv_13_'s review

3.0

inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

keisha_miller's review

3.5

challenging funny reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mariashaheen_'s review

3.5

emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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not bad, but i definitely prefer to kill a mockingbird. good read though, enjoyable and moving at parts. 

angelahiu's review

5.0

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If you have actually read the book- give me a call! Would love to discuss!

library_chick's review

4.0

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Much heralded and surrounded by controversy regarding its publication, this book is well worth a read. After years away in New York city, Scout a.k.a. Jean Louise returns to Maycomb, something of a Dark Tower, still steeped in the post-Reconstruction Southern traditions that had tormented her in the past. Harper Lee spends much of the book's narrative in recollection of the Scout's past endeavors growing up in this little race-divided community, and many of the side stories are humorous and well-crafted and serve to expose Scout in the end as one of a privileged few who seems to abhor the double standards while doing little to deal with the issues. Juxtaposed by her 72 year-old father Atticus, Jean Louise must confront her standards with her father's and come to terms with what it means to live in the South as opposed to escape it.

megha_mind's review

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This book is absolutely inspiring. How much Scouts life has changed is surprising. She's gone from an all trusting little girl to an independent women who can speak for herself.

rehey11's review

2.0

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There was way too much telling us what the character's thought and not enough showing through action/reaction. Nothing happens in the entire book, and there is no resolution to many questions. Why did they let her publish this? * spoiler?* The big message: don't be close mixed to racists because they are complex people. Yeesh.

2 stars only because she has interesting anecdotals in the book (which means she can write, even if these stories within the book go nowhere and don't reveal much IMO).

julia_breukelman's review

2.0

challenging slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes