To Kill A Mocking Bird
by Unknown author
53% recommend47% neutral
Why HN recommends it
Written as a first serious novel, it offers humane, accessible storytelling and a clear picture of how society once was. It suits younger readers and anyone seeking a simple, well-made classic.
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Oh boy, you fucked up now. Here are the books I read this past year that I felt were "Good", starting from the most recent : To Kill A Mocking Bird (Insanely good) True Grit (Insanely good) The Little Friend (Good) Priceless (Very good, about art theft) The Secret History (Insanely good) Ready Player One (Good, nerdy) Shadow Divers (Very good,…
on “Ask HN: What's one book you've recently read and enjoyed?” ↗To kill a mocking bird!!
on “Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011” ↗"To Kill a Mocking Bird", "Logicomix" in English. A play called "Andha Yug" (The Age of Darkness) in Hindi. English translation is also available for those interested. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198065221/
on “Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011” ↗…where it is simply not encountered, it will be encountered if you travel much. Second, even if and when we reach a point in society where racism is truly gone, it is useful to know how we got there. To Kill a Mocking Bird not only helps show how society was before, it was itself a small piece of history that helped in a small way make society the way it is now with less racism. Even if we reach a utopian day where its…
on “Teacher Suspended For Reading 'Ender's Game' To Middle School Students” ↗To kill a mocking bird was the first novel i read in my life. I was only 11 (in 6th grade) at the time and took around 3-4 months (summer break) to complete it, to be honest this was the book that made me realize that reading…
on “Harper Lee to publish Mockingbird 'sequel'” ↗I also read "To Kill a Mocking Bird" for the first time, and it is truly a work of art.
on “Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011” ↗to kill a mocking bird: it was refreshing, looking for more simple books like this one
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗…the end That's interesting to me, I hated Balzac when I had to read it in school but I loved the Odyssey as a kid. Most of the classics I read and enjoyed as a kid (Voltaire's Contes Philosophiques, To kill a mocking bird, all the books from Maupassant, etc...) I read them for fun by myself without the school asking me to read them, on the other had I hated the books that I was forced to read (Rousseau's confessions, Balzac,…
on “Why Read the Classics? (1986)” ↗Some schools ban simple classics like Mark Twain or To Kill A Mocking Bird. They can F right off.
on “The Atlantic Did Me Dirty” ↗I'd be interested to hear more about the creative dynamic between this new book and To Kill a Mocking Bird. It says she put this new one aside 60 years ago to write TKaMB, but it features the characters later in their lives. I wonder if she was sketching out backstory to flesh out the characters and that…
on “Harper Lee to publish Mockingbird 'sequel'” ↗I actually agree with you, and I'm just complaining about how edit and draft seem imprecise. I was thinking of how Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mocking Bird. Also, Philip Roth said something about taking the right first steps instead of the wrong ones and that's how he could tell he had material for a book. It's possible if you redefine or throw out the…
on “What I learned from writing 750 words a day for 365 days” ↗…screen, so your comment is just prejudiced. If, on the other hand, you were using your hypothetical sway on social media to besmirch him in some way, that would be racism. I'm American but I've never read "To Kill a Mocking Bird". "How could you have never read an iconic piece of American literature that literally every public school child between the 70s and 90s was forced to read in highschool?!" Easy: I didn't go to public…
on “Millennials Flee Vancouver for More Affordable Cities” ↗The same reason we read stories like Hamlet, Catcher in the Rye, To Kill A Mocking Bird, etc in school. So much of what we read has to do with awful things people do and a reflection on that. In the case of video games, there are some that are mindless violence, but The Last of Us Part…
on “Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior” ↗There is a big difference between Lolita by Vladimir Naboko and To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee in a school library. Fahrenheit 451 is coming true every day in the land of the free - you can't change history by banning books - the world being what it is , tales of slavery and Jim…
on “Illinois to Become First State to Ban Book Bans” ↗Getting taught creationism at school would be a big turnoff for me and that slavery had its upsides and To Kill A Mocking Bird is verboten. Fortunately where I live there is no political meddling in the school syllabus - standards are set nationally by the Education Dept and schools boards don't get voted in on political lines.
on “Tech workers now doubting decision to move from California to Texas” ↗