It's a nice plaque.
Posted on 07/13/2015 9:20:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I found one too!
Getting into the realm of hoaxes now.
Ya’ think they might just be trying to sell a book??
I don’t know why you’d say that.
Atticus couldn’t help it. It was in his DNA. Just ask Barry.
*snort*
May have written? Did she or didn’t she? If the author herself is not sure, then she probably did not write it.
Maybe yes, if she now has a disability that affects the memory, such as Alzheimers. Even in that case, there should be plenty of drafts around that led up to this ‘surprise’ book.
Her literary agent’s son and grandson’s will keep finding “lost” manuscripts!
Unlikely there is a third book, but even more unlikely that there would have been drafts around. Lee was traumatized, not in a “I can’t go on living” way but still traumatized, by her sudden and near universal praise for her book. She stayed busy in the literary world, but could not bring herself to write again.
So even if she did write, it likely would have been a single draft that she kept out of view from anyone else. Like Emily Dickenson with her poems. Only after her passing was the volume and quality of her work revealed.
I read the book in high school back in the days when we read real books, not ebooks. Honestly, I was into Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov and Heinlein so I was not too impressed with Mockingbird. As I recall it was OK, but not one of my favorites by any stretch. As I recall it seemed a little preachy and stilted.
Maybe I am just too much like Atticus Finch and not so much like Scout.
I have read hundreds, nay, thousands of books since those dark days of the 50s-60s and I can honestly say that Mockingbird doesn’t crack my top 10, probably not even my top 50.
So in summation, who cares if there are two additional unknown, mediocre books?
This is fun.
To Kill A Mockingbird is a real touchstone for the Liberals.
Watch what happens when they get over the initial shock.
“This book is no good. It doesn’t support our ideals!”
Harper Lee can’t write another book because Truman Capote is still dead.
They'll be printed on Dukes of Hazzard stationery.
Harper Lee’s done an “In Cold Blood” on Atticus.
The Alabama Bar had put up a plaque to Atticus in front of the old courthouse in Monroeville Al (her hometown).
Over/under how long it lasts?
Liberals are upset that the guy turns out to be a racist in the novel. I wonder what the 3rd novel will make him be?
Truman Capote is still dead.
If Truman Capote had married Doty Goodman,
would she have become Doty Capote???
Inquiring minds want to know...
No....thank-you.
I only bet on lawyers when there’s a race after a wallet falls to the ground.
Then I bet on the sneakiest one and I always lose because it’s a tie.
It's a nice plaque.
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