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To: Borges

RIP Harper Lee.

A legendary figure among writers.


3 posted on 02/19/2016 7:53:37 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

She wrote only two books....................


62 posted on 02/19/2016 8:58:43 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius; Borges; Mamzelle
RIP Harper Lee. A legendary figure among writers.

While some of To Kill a Mockingbird is very well-written, other parts seem like cheap melodrama or outright propaganda.

The whole inverted myth about blacks generally being the noble victims of crime rather than its perpetrators is fed to us non-stop by the media today. It's a false meme that we can thank TKAM for.

On the other hand, I've always loved the story of Boo Radley. I wish the novel had focused more on the Radleys and less on Atticus and his Noble Black Victim client, but then we'd have a Faulkner novel rather than a Harper Lee novel.

111 posted on 02/19/2016 12:28:49 PM PST by ek_hornbeck
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