Jesus to jesus and eight hands around. Twenty first on a list of classic authors, ahead of some true legends. Talk about exposing the shallowness of the literary mind on RIA.

I've never seen the big deal. One half-decent novel. Obviously popular on here because most reviewers are in or just out of high school. This woman doesn't belong in the top 500 Classic authors.



Seriously, does anyone who has actually read a book think she can be mentioned in the same breath as Shakespeare, Goethe, Faulkner, or Swift? to name just four.

tkam makes you think

I think that To Kill a Mockingbird was an excellent book. The life of a young country girl was beautifully portrayed by Harper Lee.

The greatest American novelist of the Twentieth Century. Harper Lee is a literary treasure herself, yet is modest about her impact on society.

Probably the most profound book I have ever read.

Excellent book. Very well written. This book was semi-autobiographical, and the character Dill- the next-door neighbor boy who came to visit on the summers was actually based on Her friend, Author Truman Capote. This book expores more than the civil injustices of the south during the 1930's- it explores prejudices everywhere and simple biases in everyday life. Not so much a book for junior high student- a rather ham-fisted oversimplification for the shortsighted, that, and to not know that Ms. Lee was female is a bit more of a clue as to the mind set of the reviewers as well. I suggest you re-reads this one with an open mind and this time without the help of a Classics Illustrated. It's a great book with incredible lessons to be learned throughout. Harper Lee has distinguished herself with one novel, in my opinion, as a writer of merit above even that of Hemingway and Steinbeck.

A one-book wonder. And a pretty wheezy and minor novel at that, filled with predicable insights and decriptions that are just this side of cliche. Mockingbird is one of those white liberal guilt books that found some cachet back in the days, but the book hasn't aged well since its not-so-hidden agenda is so simplistic and its narrative means so manipulative. I guess she's OK for the junior high school set, but anyone who's done any advanced reading doesn't think very highly of this one, and for good reason.

I read that this is the only book that Harper Lee wrote. To Kill A mockingbird is a classic. Well written.Good characters with Scout, the little girl and her brother Jem, growing up with their widowed father Atticus.She made her characters so real. I could picture what life was like for this family in the 1930's south. Atticus a decent lawyer. defending an innocent black man.I heard this book is semi autobiographical. A very good book. A talented author.Wish she would have written some more.

What an absolutely marvelous author. To Kill A Mockingbird was fantastic. Wonderful depth of characters. Harper Lee does such a incredible job of showing the reader the era by the characteristics of the people who were a part of it. Its one of those books where what is not said is important as what is. She gives you a real sense of personalities. A must read and an excellent movie as well.

Harper Lee's one novel is truly brilliant. She put the South into a fishbowl which is what was needed to instigate social change.