To Kill a Mockingbird will get a sequel after all Go Set a Watchmen - Polidicks

[QUOTE]TO KILL a Mockingbird will not be Harper Lee’s only published book after all. Publisher Harper have announced that Go Set a Watchman, a novel the Pulitzer Prize-winning author completed in the 1950s and put aside, will be released July 14. Rediscovered last fall, Go Set a Watchman is essentially a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, although it was finished earlier. The publisher plans a first printing of 2 million copies. “In the mid-1950s, I completed a novel called Go Set a Watchman,” the 88-year-old Lee said in a statement issued by Harper. “It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman, and I thought it a pretty decent effort. My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout’s childhood, persuaded me to write a novel (what became To Kill a Mockingbird) from the point of view of the young Scout. “I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn’t realised it (the original book) had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. After much thought and hesitation, I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years.” [/QUOTE] Source: [URL="http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/books-magazines/to-kill-a-mockingbird-gets-a-sequel-called-go-set-a-watchman/story-fna50uae-1227207153965"]http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/books-magazines/to-kill-a-mockingbird-gets-a-sequel-called-go-set-a-watchman/story-fna50uae-1227207153965[/URL]

kinda 60 years late but i enjoyed to kill a mocking bird, i can only hope this one is good as well

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They already made a far more deserving sequel: [video=youtube;fo45o69HaKI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo45o69HaKI[/video]

Go set a watchman to kill a mockingbird? I'm guessing the title is talking about setting someone to be a watchman somewhere, since this is way before the Sony Watchman and the heart-valve-thingy Watchman. Or maybe Scout dresses up as an owl and punches racists.

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I'm excited as shit for this, but it's a shame it'll be torn apart by critics. TKAM is a literary classic of the 20th century, and it's pretty much impossible to live up to it.

wow! Not every day you get a sequel to a classic piece. however i was kind of hoping for a watchmen and tkam crossover where atticus and rorsach solve crimes and lawyer it up

That's amazing, I had no idea that Harper Lee was still alive! I remember reading To Kill a Mockingbird in High School, it left an impact on me.

If just worried it's going to read like something quickly cooked up by a batty old lady. What I'm hoping for is it reads like something that has been painstakingly crafted slowly over decades. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("READ the article before replying. Yet again." - postal))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;47070188]If just worried it's going to read like something quickly cooked up by a batty old lady. What I'm hoping for is it reads like something that has been painstakingly crafted slowly over decades.[/QUOTE] If you read the article, Lee says that she wrote this novel before TKAM, actually.

Will we have an ebook version of this one?

[QUOTE=spacedooky;47070219]If you read the article, Lee says that she wrote this novel before TKAM, actually.[/QUOTE] Then we're all doomed.

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;47070497]Then we're all doomed.[/QUOTE] From the people publishing it they say it's good. Of course, some sources say that they magically found it after all these years and never even gained contact to Lee directly but with lawyers.

i swear i remember from my sophomore year of highschool that she had actually started writing this book but never finished it or that publishers wouldn't publish it glad to see something was found, though how good it is remains to be seen (please for the love of god don't make highschool students read it and analyze it, theres enough more modern stuff out there)

[QUOTE=Sableye;47071537](please for the love of god don't make highschool students read it and analyze it, theres enough more modern stuff out there)[/QUOTE] The success of this book will depend on how many metaphors that high school teachers can make out of a sentence describing a character's shoes.

I read the book once. I didnt really think much of it. Let alone how its story could be continued.

[QUOTE=Sableye;47071537]i swear i remember from my sophomore year of highschool that she had actually started writing this book but never finished it or that publishers wouldn't publish it glad to see something was found, though how good it is remains to be seen (please for the love of god don't make highschool students read it and analyze it, theres enough more modern stuff out there)[/QUOTE] She wrote this version before the version we know today supposedly. The publishers at the time didn't like the way the story was written and she wrote what became To Kill A Mockingbird, and this sequel version has been sitting around since essentially.

[QUOTE=Oizen;47071596]I read the book once. I didnt really think much of it. Let alone how its story could be continued.[/QUOTE] Right? It pretty much ended with nowhere to go..

[QUOTE=Kylel999;47071723]Right? It pretty much ended with nowhere to go..[/QUOTE] Scout, 20 years later, confronting adult life in the south and witnessing the civil rights movement, I heard

I thought TKAM was a great book, and I appreciated my school English classes in which we read it.

[QUOTE=person11;47071786]Scout, 20 years later, confronting adult life in the south and witnessing the civil rights movement, I heard[/QUOTE] That sounds like a stretch to make a sequel for a plot like that. I mean, the fact they're making it with TKAM characters just sounds like they're trying to ride its coat tails. You could probably just get away with making the same movie without the TKAM characters.

[QUOTE=Oizen;47072083]That sounds like a stretch to make a sequel for a plot like that.[/QUOTE] It was already made. She wrote this first. TKAM was written afterward because the publishers liked the flashback scenes. I'm not sure how I feel about this. My HS English teacher emphasized the fact that TKAM was Lee's only book, and I kind of respected her for that. Now that they're releasing this other book it makes TKAM less special and unique.

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[QUOTE=BigJoeyLemons;47072139]Now that they're releasing this other book it makes TKAM less special and unique.[/QUOTE] I never knew that and it really doesn't have any effect on either book in regards to it's quality, it's just an "oh cool" kind of thing. Personally, I'm pretty excited for this.