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To Kill a Mockingbird named America's favorite novel ever
Entertainment ^ | 10/23/2018 | DAVID CANFIELD

Posted on 10/23/2018 9:35:48 PM PDT by BlackAdderess

America’s favorite novel ever has been named: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.

More than four million votes were cast for PBS’s The Great American Read program, in which the public was given a list of 100 popular fiction contenders to choose their most-loved book. The contest was introduced in May with the long list, and voting has taken place through the fall, with PBS airing eight episodes spotlighting the novels according to theme: “Heroes,” What We Do for Love,” and on. Celebrities and famous authors were featured in the episodes, providing commentary on their personal favorite books and why they’ve resonated.

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To: BlackAdderess

I didn’t get around to reading TKAM book until I was 40...and I’ve read 2-3 books a WEEK since I was a teen! Though, I DID see the movie before reading the book.

I would put it in my Top Ten, though my Top Ten has changed yearly since I could open and read a book. ;)


61 posted on 10/25/2018 5:30:25 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: Charles Henrickson

‘Outlander (Series)’

Pastor! Avert your eyes! That is soft-core PORN! I have girlfriends that love the books and the mini-series. I cannot stomach it.

Blech!


62 posted on 10/25/2018 5:34:17 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: Reno89519
NO ONE READ TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD VOLUNTARILY, NOR ENJOYED IT.

I think that's actually true. For the last fifty years or so, anyway.

But many people have only read the novels they were assigned to read, and they don't have happy memories of what teachers made them read.

I guess people also read popular novels down through the years, but whoever is doing the survey isn't going to ask about Stephen King or Judith Krantz or Jackie Collins.

Gatsby and Of Mice and Men end unhappily. Nobody read The Scarlet Letter all the way through. Huckleberry Finn has the race thing. And if you say Catcher in the Rye people will think you are a potential assassin. So what's left?

63 posted on 10/25/2018 5:42:35 PM PDT by x
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To: BlackAdderess

Give me Huck Finn any day.... TKAM isn’t a bad book, but hardly a favorite.


64 posted on 10/25/2018 5:49:39 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: BlackAdderess

That book is the darling of the Left Wing Set and always has been.

I read all the classics, Dumas, Sr. & Jr., and all ,manner of other other books.

At no time in school was I assigned or read on my own TKAM.

I read trashy Harold Robbins novels and one rather risque book for it’s time, “The Harrad Experiment”, which my Mother caught me with and what a lecture I had on that.


65 posted on 10/25/2018 5:54:32 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Fledermaus

I even hated the movie.


66 posted on 10/25/2018 5:54:58 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: 9YearLurker

I remember reading “Moby Dick”, long , but a great book.


67 posted on 10/25/2018 5:57:20 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: BlackAdderess

When I saw the list of books, I knew To Kill a Mockingbird would win. It’s a good book, a very sentimental book.

There were a some books on the list that had no business there: Twilight Saga?!? Fifty Shades if Grey?!?! Really!?!


68 posted on 10/25/2018 6:08:30 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: Captain Peter Blood

It was fantastic. I read it as an assignment in 7th grade, including the cetology—and you just don’t see 7th grade assignments like that any more!


69 posted on 10/25/2018 6:19:04 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: BlackAdderess
I admit to liking the book. I read most of the classics in school and only a few of them were assigned.

My favorite classic however has to be "Call Of The Wild" by Jack London. Perhaps more of a short story than a full-fledged novel but I read that over and over again, along with other London short stories like "To Build A Fire" and "White Silence."

I always wanted a dog like Buck.

70 posted on 10/25/2018 6:26:52 PM PDT by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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