"To Kill a Mockingbird" was a great book turned into a great movie.

[Swede]

Harper Lee's novel was superbly adapted into the movie with Gregory Peck. Atticus Finch and his kids take us on a life altering journey.
Here's a couple of great lines by Atticus

"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."


Movie or book it doesn't get any better. Maybe GW Bush should read it.

[joeybee12]

1. How's this for a movie line Dumbo ought to hear?

With great power comes great responsibility.

It's from Spiderman.

Good Lord, even a comic strip can teach that worthless sack of crap something!

[flamingyouth]

2. Hear, hear, Swede!

Both the book and movie are among my all-time favorites. Amazing work.

[Cheswick2.0]

3. Swede, I have so much college work to do

but now I want to find my copy of the book and read it! You are right, great book great movie. That doesn't happen that often.

[Swede]

5. Atticus Finch should never be forgotten!

Nor Scout,Jem or Dill.

[adamblast]

4. I refuse to support any book that condones...

...the killing of poor, defenseless birds!! I'm calling Pamela Anderson on you!!

:D

[joeybee12]

6. No, the moral in the book is it's a SIN to kill a mockingbird!

I know you're being sarcastic.

[buddhamama]

7. a rare occurence indeed

a timeless book and an excellent movie.

watched the movie with my son recently.
we spent hours afterward discussing the issues raised in the book/movie.

[Shakespeare]

8. "Hey, Boo."

GOD but I love the book and movie. The movie makes me cry in many places, but nowhere so much as the gentle voice of that little girl playing Scout when she calmly greets Boo Radley for the first time (after being frightened by the idea of him throughout the book/movie).

That moment gets me even more (though not by much) than the "stand up Jean Louise, your father's passin'" scene.

[Swede]

9. I just got chills from reading your post.

Plus a lump in my throat.

[flamingyouth]

10. I had that as my email sig after Gregory Peck passed away

Gives me chills and tears every time I read or hear it.

[VOX]

11. Harper Lee's only novel. But she didn't need to write another...

http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20030220harperlee5.asp

Harper Lee maintains a low profile after her only novel

Thursday, February 20, 2003

By Bob Hoover, Post-Gazette Book Editor

Like a character from a Eudora Welty novel, Harper Lee is a shadowy figure living quietly in a Southern town.

At 77, she refuses interviews and makes few public appearances.

"I am still alive, though very quiet," she wrote in 1993 when asked to write a new introduction to "To Kill a Mockingbird."

She refused. "Please spare 'Mockingbird' an introduction. ... 'Mockingbird' still says what it has to say; it has managed to survive without preamble."

It has more than survived. Never out of print since it appeared in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize, Lee's only novel is a staple of school reading lists.

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[onebigbadwulf]

12. Yeah

there's nothing better than reading about racist rednecks hell bent on hate crimes...:eyes:

[Swede]

13. You should re-read it or see the movie.

It's a classic I tell ya.

[Sequoia]

15. Clearly you have done neither

so stop blabbing on so. Even Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" points out our racism although the book has been banned in certain places because of the constant use of a racist term. So read the book pal, or watch the movie.

[Swede]

16. Read the book in school maybe you didn't.

So stop blabbing so.

[Breezy du Nord]

18. What's wrong with it?

:shrug:

[UrbScotty]

14. Everyone should read it, and re-read it.

It should be required reading for every high school student in America. It was for me.

Gregory Peck was a fine actor in many respects. He was Atticus Finch in both the movie and real life. He was also a liberal, apparently.

[Breezy du Nord]

17. I'll say

That's a real good book. I saw part of the movie on AMC a few weeks ago. Just the second part, but i loved it.

[mitchum]

19. You're right, and it's one of the few times that has happened...

(great literature into great film)