Did you or will you read Go Set a Watchman?

I’m in no rush, the main reason being that I have a cynical hunch that the book will never stand up to the first. In addition, I’ll be forced to reread the “bird” before tackling the second book. There’s also the fact of Ms. Lee’s reluctance to throw the second book out there and cash in further on “Mockingbird mania”. The movie will probably be here before I get to the book anyway.

I’m with you – conflicted fo all the same reasons and I am teaching Mockingbird this year. Kind of have decided that I will definitely not buy it – its publication history seems sketchy at best. An English teacher I know did read it and said it was terrible; she couldn’t understand how the two books were written by the same author. From what I’ve read, an editor worked heavily with Lee on Watchman as a first draft to create Mockingbird.” I did reread *Mockingbird this summer and rewatched the movie and loved both.

I find the whole issue quite upsetting.

I’m not conflicted in the least. I have no interest in buying/reading it. I prefer to remember Atticus and the other characters from “Mockingbird.”

No interest in it. When a creator declines to release a particular work there’s usually a good reason why. And from what I understand Harper Lee clearly never intended to release this particular work.

I will not.

A year or so ago I bought a copy of “To Kill A Mockingbird” at a yard sale. I thought I had had read it, but definitely not in a school context. I read and enjoyed the book, and I can see why it has the status it has.

I’m with @Darth_Algar that Harper Lee never intended for Watchman to be released.

No. I loved Mockingbird just the way it is. It’s a classic for good reason and doesn’t need any tampering with.

I think Watchman is more of an editor’s money grab than anything else.

I’m with you guys.