To Kill A Mockingbird...

[LaxAttackman28]

To kill a mockingbird....

I have to read this book this quarter for english and I was just wodnering if a lot of you guys that have read it, liked it or disliked it?

btw this is not a hw thread, please dont close)

[dta06]

I read it for school last quarter. I really didnt like it, I found it very boring, yet all the teachers say its a great novel. The black and white film was just as worst. I fell asleep during the film and sometimes after finishing a chapter im like "wait what did i just read". I dont see whats the greatness in this book

[Riot]

I dont see whats the greatness in this book
It's well written and has a good storyline..

I liked it.

[cavgoalie7]

My cousin hated it, I midly disliked it. What really gets annoying is their southern dialect. The movie was pretty boring as well.

[ftDpole35]

i wouldve liked it more if i didnt have to write lots of papers/ my midterm on it

[Riot]

How could you guys not like it? Do you like most of the books you read?

[faceofflax15]

I hated this book, but it deffinitly related to 9th grade themes that we studied in english last year.

[MaKiMaKi13]

i liked it , althought i read it back in 5th grade but oo well

[AttackMan17]

I read it for school last quarter. I really didnt like it, I found it very boring, yet all the teachers say its a great novel. The black and white film was just as worst. I fell asleep during the film and sometimes after finishing a chapter im like "wait what did i just read". I dont see whats the greatness in this book

Im about the same..I napped during the movie as well.

But, it wasn't horrible...I just don't like to read.

[Matt Larkin]

i read this last year as a freshman and i hated it...actually i cant remember anything but the main characherst names were pip, havisham, and estella.and he cant get over estella and they try to escape a convict or something.its pretty boring.

[dta06]

It's well written and has a good storyline..

I liked it.


ill summarize the story for you
*Spoiler in white
a guy has two children. He defends a black guy in court. The town hates them. The kids are upset. A guy tries to kill the kids. A complete stranger to the town kills the guy, they live hapily ever after. again i dont see the greatness

[Dadabhoy_Muzzi]

I read this book in grade 9. I personally found this book boring. We also started to watch the black and white version of the film and a lot of people were falling asleep.

[Matt Larkin]

ill summarize the story for you
*Spoiler in white
a guy has two children. The dad defends a black guy. The town hates them. The kids are upset. A guy tries to kill the kids. A complete stranger to anyone kills the guy, they live hapily ever after. again i dont see the greatness
i dont remember any of that ever hapening..but it probably is right?

[AttackMan17]

i read this last year as a freshman and i hated it...actually i cant remember anything but the main characherst names were pip, havisham, and estella.and he cant get over estella and they try to escape a convict or something.its pretty boring.

Wrong book... :rofl:

[Riot]

ill summarize the story for you
*Spoiler in white
a guy has two children. The dad defends a black guy. The town hates them. The kids are upset. A guy tries to kill the kids. A complete stranger to anyone kills the guy, they live hapily ever after. again i dont see the greatness
Lord of the Rings:
guy has ring takes it to mountain BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Old Man and the Sea:
old man catches fish
American Psycho:
man kills people.. or did he?
Bible:
guy goes around doing miracles lessons are taught
Lord of the Flies:
kids are stranded on island form tribes and fight etc

Its a good book. I dont see why everyone says its one of the best of all time though. Probably because of the subject it deals with and I guess there arent any books of the time that were that compelling.
I agree. It's a good book and I enjoyed reading it but I wouldn't say it's anywhere near the best book of all time.

[lax888]

i read this last year as a freshman and i hated it...actually i cant remember anything but the main characherst names were pip, havisham, and estella.and he cant get over estella and they try to escape a convict or something.its pretty boring.
wrong book man thats great expectations

i didnt really like the book that much, but since its a classic you're supposed to love it.

[Matt Larkin]

Wrong book... :rofl:
oo oo oo oo now i remember to kill a mockingbird.i feel stupid

[cavgoalie7]

I found I enjoyed it alot more after we talked about it in class and discussed the themes. As I was reading in the summer I hated it.

[laxmiddie11]

I liked it but I wouldn't consider it one of the best of all time. Its up there though.

[laxmann1993]

A well written book, just not my tipe.

[Ipod 777]

I liked this book, I finished it last week.

Summers were kinda gay. But the trial UBER P0WN3D....Sad though...

[laxman 9990]

it didnt seem too bad, but i just spaced out in class while we read it. just use sparknotes

[cali feeder]

Man I thought that book totally sucked. I'm good at English, and understood exactly what I was reading, but the plot and the story just sucked.

[chattlax2]

i thought it was pretty good...good storyline..what are some of your "favorite" books, maybe we can help you out more

[SilverZeppelin]

i liked it alot, and enjoyed it drastically more than other books i read this year (charles dickens..eww)

[MidwestLAx101]

easily one of the best books ive read

[SilverZeppelin]

people are just saying they hated it cause they had to read it for an english class..its actually really good

[Leonid]

i loved this book

[marleyman622]

i kinda read it. waste of time.

[ttacka]

overrated imo

[tomtom]

It was decent, but nothing special. Its only considered a "great" work because of the topic, if the defendant was white than nobody would care really.

[goalie1215]

i find if you read a book with the mindset that you are going to hate it you will. thats no way to do anything in life. i found this book surprisingly good. the movie made me want to punt a baby though.

[Jugthug42]

Appreciating classics really is something you acquire after a while. Read the book to be entertained, use spark notes for the analysis and stuff. Schools don't understand that with other forms of entertainment and a shortening attention span of our youth, that you really need to make learning a fun thing, and when you slam kids with tons of busy work, its not fun.

Reread the book some time, just get into the story, its a great one. Really I recommend learning to appreciate what these people have done by writing these stories before you graduate from high school.

I used to hate it all. Now more and more i am beginning to realize how good some of the stuff I read was. (Lots of british literature excluded) rofl...

[SilverZeppelin]

It was decent, but nothing special. Its only considered a "great" work because of the topic, if the defendant was white than nobody would care really.
thats not true..its well written, and the trial is not the point of the book

[Riot]

It was decent, but nothing special. Its only considered a "great" work because of the topic, if the defendant was white than nobody would care really.
lol. Same with Martin Luther King, if he would have been a white guy nobody would have cared. Overrated imho.

[rebel_lax40]

It was decent, but nothing special. Its only considered a "great" work because of the topic, if the defendant was white than nobody would care really.


yea but if tom robinson was white there wouldnt be a good plot.

[tiplax]

i also had to read it for english last quater. now we have to write an esssay comparing the book to the Scottsbourgh trial.

P.S. are you doing the protest literature unit in english?

[Lowell]

i read this last year as a freshman and i hated it...actually i cant remember anything but the main characherst names were pip, havisham, and estella.and he cant get over estella and they try to escape a convict or something.its pretty boring.

Wtf lol isn't that Great Expectations by Dikens(SP?)?

[HdGLaxWarrior]

ill summarize the story for you
*Spoiler in white
a guy has two children. He defends a black guy in court. The town hates them. The kids are upset. A guy tries to kill the kids. A complete stranger to the town kills the guy, they live hapily ever after. again i dont see the greatness

that's not what it's about, it's about overcoming hate and prejudice to judge a man justly. not based on the color of his skin.

[WestSideLa X eR]

lol. Same with Martin Luther King, if he would have been a white guy nobody would have cared. Overrated imho.

So you're saying Martin Luther King is overrated?

[goalie33fan]

I read the book as a freshmen.

I didn't like it because it was pretty boring.

[rizzini]

it was alright. the second half of it was a lot better than the first.

[lax21goalie2008]

i read it freshman year...its alright, just stick with it...its really slow and hard to understand at first, but then its actualy decent.

[killman3680]

it was actually pretty good. the school work ruined it though...but overall a good book

[ByrdDpole]

I skipped around, I don't even think I finished it but I got an A on the test.

[New Lax Love84]

I just finished it last week. The first few chapters are boring, and it's hard to keep focused and not like drift off into some dream land of your own. But it had a really good plot, and teaches a lesson. I liked it, but thats just my opinion.

[LaxBoy91]

To kill a mockingbird....

I have to read this book this quarter for english and I was just wodnering if a lot of you guys that have read it, liked it or disliked it?

btw this is not a hw thread, please dont close)

i remebered havignto read it a few years back and if i remember right, it had nothing to do with a mockingbird.

[HdGLaxWarrior]

i remebered havignto read it a few years back and if i remember right, it had nothing to do with a mockingbird.

you didnt remember right. something is mentioned about how killing a mockingbird is sin because they never harm anyone. and they compare tom to mockingbird because he was innocent and the shot him jail because he "tried to climb a fence while trying to run away." which i highly doubt because he got half his arm ripped off in a cotton gin when he was kid.

[RazzMaChazz]

i read this book my freshmen year. i actually read it three times completely front to back in the course of the class reading it once. i loved it.

i own the movie also. I'm really big on black and white movies.

[SilverZeppelin]

you didnt remember right. something is mentioned about how killing a mockingbird is sin because they never harm anyone. and they compare tom to mockingbird because he was innocent and the shot him jail because he "tried to climb a fence while trying to run away." which i highly doubt because he got half his arm ripped off in a cotton gin when he was kid.
its possible to climb a fence with one arm

[Bone]

I liked it quiet a bit surprisingly.

[Bobsch]

Good book...the movie was good, too.

[HdGLaxWarrior]

its possible to climb a fence with one arm

no, a jail fence, atleast 12 ft high.

[PearlJam9]

Notttt a fan
i realize that the message of the book was important and that most people could learn a lot from it
but the over all story and writing were not so good

[capergreen]

i thought it was quite possibly one of the best stories ever written. It can teach you a lot about life.