Go Set A Watchman is Harper Lee's first book in more than 50 years, so the demand was always going to be high but the long awaited follow-up to To Kill A Mockingbird has sold a staggering 105,000 copies in the UK on its first day.

Announcing the sales figures, publisher Susan Sandon said: "It's so fabulous to see a book dominating the news agenda and to be reminded of just how important literature and reading is to all of us."

The novel has been met with some mixed reviews and many fans were shocked to discover one-time fiercely idealistic lawyer Atticus Finch, now retired, painted as a racist.

I can't wait for "Mockingbird III: Finch's Revenge".  ;D

I had to read TKAMB in high school and it was a pretty good story. Why is the author making the character a complete opposite of the original?

I haven't read it yet. Even though I think To Kill a Mockingbird is overrated, I still want to read the sequel.

And I'm not too bothered by Atticus' seeming change of heart. I suspect that this was an earlier conception of Atticus before being rewritten as a hero in TKAMB. Still, both Atticuses could be reconciled as the same person if we consider the idea that Atticus was willing to represent a black man in court if he believed he was innocent while still opposing integration. If anything, it makes him more believable to me.

Well, he was a white male, in the 1930s.  :(

Well, he was a white male, in the 1930s.  :(


Right.

A white man trying to save a black man from getting lynched in the Jim Crow South was probably progressive enough for the time. He doesn't necessarily have to oppose segregation while he's at it.

Right.

A white man trying to save a black man from getting lynched in the Jim Crow South was probably progressive enough for the time. He doesn't necessarily have to oppose segregation while he's at it.


Never thought of it that way.

Right.

A white man trying to save a black man from getting lynched in the Jim Crow South was probably progressive enough for the time. He doesn't necessarily have to oppose segregation while he's at it.
It is ages since I have read or seen the film, I could easily watch now.

A "limited number" of copies of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman have been found to contain a printing error.

Copies affected by the technical fault have two lines missing on six separate pages near the end of novel.

Replacements are being printed and affected customers will be able to get their copies replaced.

With the book selling thousands of copies, though, there are fears of a (brief) stock shortage.

A "limited number" of copies of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman have been found to contain a printing error.

Copies affected by the technical fault have two lines missing on six separate pages near the end of novel.

Replacements are being printed and affected customers will be able to get their copies replaced.

With the book selling thousands of copies, though, there are fears of a (brief) stock shortage.
Of course the printing error copies will become a collectors item, and be worth more in value.

Of course the printing error copies will become a collectors item, and be worth more in value.


I need $$$ to buy it!

Well, he was a white male, in the 1930s.  :(


That was a pretty good time to be a white guy, if you don't count the Great Depression.  :-X