Reviews

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

ahmed_suliman's review against another edition

5.0

A wonderful edifying novel, I think that I will include it in my list of books to read to my children one day. However, in my POV, it’d have been fair enough to be narrated by a child of Negros instead of Scout but it’s okay, I like it anyways.

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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb into his skin, until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.”
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“Real courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway, and you see it through no matter what.”
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another. and you can look down the street and see the results.”

livbomb14's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

vict9907's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

Easy to read, but several allusions may be hard to understand without googling.

sugarsprinkledtar's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

parita_g's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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? Yes

5.0

ave0707's review against another edition

4.0

"Neighbours bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and a chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives."

bookwanderer_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-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? Yes

5.0

rhmunch512's review against another edition

1.0

it was ok, i'm not into those kind of books.

vaekay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

1.0

I have read To Kill a Mockingbird numerous times, but none since 2018 — when I was 16. The first time I ever tried reading it was when I was maybe 8 or 9 years old. I remember my family telling me that it is a classic, and I also remember feeling very scared by what I was reading at that time. I tried reading through it a few more times over the years until I was forced to get through it for my sophomore year English class. I liked it at the time, and luckily I had an instructor who highlighted all of the inaccuracies within the text and gave us further education on what racism actually looked like at the time. I think my reading of the text (as well as my review of it on Goodreads) was transformed by what she had said to us and her framing of what I imagine must have been mandatory reading... I had thought it was good. Now, as an adult and as someone who has reflected more on To Kill a Mockingbird and its social and cultural impact, I have come to the realization that it has been extremely damaging. It is well-written and the characters are good, developed characters. My issue is mostly with the inaccuracies, the White Knight syndrome, and the glossing over of race relations and racism in the United States at the time. Many will look at this book as an accurate depiction of the time, and it wasn't. It was worse than this. Not to mention, again, the overly abundant White Knight syndrome — literally White Knight.

elladipi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0