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Checked out
Due Feb 28, 2023
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GN LEE
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Harper (2018), Edition: 1st Edition, 288 pages
Description
The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
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LibraryThing member Stahl-Ricco
Well, it's one of my all-time favorite novels, and one of my all-time favorite films, so this graphic novel was right up my alley! It reads like the book, and looks like the movie! I very much enjoyed it, and as always, I get made as hell at the end of Tom's trial. But two words almost always get
"Hey Boo."
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me calmed down again."Hey Boo."
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LibraryThing member villemezbrown
Drawing upon some of richest source material in American literature, Fred Fordham delivers a reverential adaptation. While the art can be a bit stiff and conservative, the story remains as powerful as ever in this new form. I gulped it down in one sitting.
LibraryThing member AdonisGuilfoyle
I wasn't sure if this should count towards my reading tally, but Harper Lee's beautiful writing is mostly intact, so I'll count the 'graphic novel' as just another edition of Mockingbird. I'm not above re-reading the original text over and over again, so why not! The completist in me finally won
Fred Fordham has illustrated my favourite novel beautifully, and I will admit to skipping ahead to see how he captured my favourite scenes - the fire at Miss Maudie's and Christmas at the Landing. Scout is endearing, all large eyes and overalls, and I love how the Finches all share the same features (naturally). Atticus isn't quite as dashing as Gregory Peck in the film, but hey ho. There are also one or two incredible full page illustrations, for the history of the Finches at the Landing, the fire, the children at the Radley house in the middle of the night, and Tom Robinson's death. The only persnickety detail I noted was that Fordham has Scout and Jem sharing a bedroom when they have separate but connecting rooms - I think the porch scenes confused him!
An absolutely gorgeous version of the classic story that every younger reader - and older obsessive fan! - should have on their shelves.
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the battle (I'm not reading Go Set A Watchman, though).Fred Fordham has illustrated my favourite novel beautifully, and I will admit to skipping ahead to see how he captured my favourite scenes - the fire at Miss Maudie's and Christmas at the Landing. Scout is endearing, all large eyes and overalls, and I love how the Finches all share the same features (naturally). Atticus isn't quite as dashing as Gregory Peck in the film, but hey ho. There are also one or two incredible full page illustrations, for the history of the Finches at the Landing, the fire, the children at the Radley house in the middle of the night, and Tom Robinson's death. The only persnickety detail I noted was that Fordham has Scout and Jem sharing a bedroom when they have separate but connecting rooms - I think the porch scenes confused him!
An absolutely gorgeous version of the classic story that every younger reader - and older obsessive fan! - should have on their shelves.
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LibraryThing member bookwyrmm
Even though I have read the original, watched the movie, and seen the play multiple times, this graphic adaptation helped to bring out some of the finer points of the story.
LibraryThing member SJGirl
The original story is well-maintained in this adaptation, all the most important moments are fully realized and the author stayed true to the characters (including leaving in that line where Atticus jokes that women aren’t allowed on juries because they’d ask too many questions, one of several
The characters facial features tended to be much more similar to one another than I would have preferred, and Boo and Dill looked so much alike in every respect that physically Dill basically just seemed like a shrunken version of Boo. I did find the illustrations impressive in other areas though, I thought the trial scenes were really well done and the backgrounds were wonderfully detailed and realistically lit, especially the nighttime panels.
I think of this graphic novel much the way I do the movie, it very much captures the spirit of the book, but you should absolutely still read the book.
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hints in the novel that the man Scout idealized as a child would later appear more flawed in the eyes of an adult woman). The characters facial features tended to be much more similar to one another than I would have preferred, and Boo and Dill looked so much alike in every respect that physically Dill basically just seemed like a shrunken version of Boo. I did find the illustrations impressive in other areas though, I thought the trial scenes were really well done and the backgrounds were wonderfully detailed and realistically lit, especially the nighttime panels.
I think of this graphic novel much the way I do the movie, it very much captures the spirit of the book, but you should absolutely still read the book.
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Pages
288