tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4773784813020798883.post3865617135365186269..comments2023-07-30T07:24:37.237-07:00Comments on Barbara Elsborg: To Kill a Mocking BirdBarbara Elsborghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15825994197656747262noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4773784813020798883.post-20262138652768852812011-04-03T14:14:59.501-07:002011-04-03T14:14:59.501-07:00Maybe it'd be like watching black and white, c...Maybe it'd be like watching black and white, compared to color in high depth, for teenagers in this era. The classics tend to be somewhat repeditive, an aquired taste for the time challegned generation.Arlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13009609859622288428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4773784813020798883.post-34124422739604496932011-04-01T02:51:57.889-07:002011-04-01T02:51:57.889-07:00Despite the message in it, I think it's heavy ...Despite the message in it, I think it's heavy going for kids in their mid teens. I can see why the book doesn't appeal.But then I just read Tale of Two Cities for the first time in years and although it's a great book - if I had to do a review of it judging by today's standards, I'm not sure it would come out too well. Same for Mocking Bird. It's of its age and though it is a classic, it's not a book I'd expect youngsters to voluntarily select.Barbara Elsborghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15825994197656747262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4773784813020798883.post-79861938375278615042011-03-31T06:03:15.823-07:002011-03-31T06:03:15.823-07:00I'd like to go off on some diatribe about how ...I'd like to go off on some diatribe about how the kids today aren't getting the same education we got, and that in the day of video games and transformers, the books like this don't stand a chance. But I have to confess that, I read the book as a boy and I didn't enjoy it either, particulraly due to the dialect which was brutal on a boy fresh off the boat from Eastern Europe. It wasn't until I picked it up and rediscovered it when I was older, and then I saw the genius in it, and loved it. So I wouldn't read too much into the children's indifference. Agree 100% about standing up for what's right.Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07604208770698139837noreply@blogger.com