To Kill A Mockingbird

**Usarka** · 2nd November 2007, 06:54

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Great books!

Also add "Slaughterhouse 5", "The World According To Garp", "The Grapes Of Wrath", "For Whom The Bell Tolls", and you're well on the way to having knocked off some of the great American novels.

Garp never done it for me. The other three I'll agree are great, especially Slaughterhouse 5 - a must read for anyone who doesn't like harry potter or tom clancy.

I was surprised at how easy to read Hemingway books are, i was expecting some ulysses type grind.

**hXc** · 2nd November 2007, 06:56

Originally Posted by BuFfY

So you took my advice then huh!
It is quite a good book to write about. Has all the jazz that NCEA loves you to talk about, social injustice etc etc
Good luck and don't stay up too late!!

I think I stuck to the theme of feminism, and how I learnt about how 1950's American women were restricted.
Good ol' Wikipedia.

**Hitcher** · 2nd November 2007, 08:05

Originally Posted by Usarka

I was surprised at how easy to read Hemingway books are, i was expecting some ulysses type grind.

Earnest Hemmingway is a "must read" for anybody who aspires to write. "Powerfully economic" is how I would describe his writing style. Read and learn.

"Tequila Mockingbird" is probably amongst the most analysed books of all time. So much so that I believe it has more read into it than its author originally intended.

**MSTRS:Me** · 2nd November 2007, 08:16

Huh! Hark at you lot skiting about 'the literary gems' you've all plodded your way through...
I read The Cat in the Hat. Once. It was good. It had rhyming sentences.

**Hitcher** · 2nd November 2007, 08:24

Originally Posted by MSTRS

It had rhyming sentences.

It follows an exact triple meter.

**Usarka** · 2nd November 2007, 08:43

Originally Posted by MSTRS

Huh! Hark at you lot skiting about 'the literary gems' you've all plodded your way through...
I read The Cat in the Hat. Once. It was good. It had rhyming sentences.

Overated. Green eggs and ham was a much better literary example of Seuss's work.

I'd also recommend "Are You My Mother" by Philip Eastman which chronicles a birds journey to find it's mother and the highs and lows as he finds attachment with dogs, horses and diggers only to find that they don't provide the love that he needs.