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First Speaker

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10. I may be the only one in America who likes *Go Set a Watchman*...

Reply to Dave Starsky (Reply #8)

Tue Mar 12, 2019, 11:35 AM

Mar 2019

...even though it wasn't quite posthumous. But everyone is seeing it thru the lens of *...Mockingbird*--and of course it suffers in comparison. But if the first novel had never existed, and *Watchman* had been published as planned in the 50s, it would have an honorable place in the long tradition of Southern coming-of-age novels. It's really not bad.

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Thank you. This makes my day... First Speaker Mar 2019 #5

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They're very much worth re-reading... First Speaker Mar 2019 #7

Has ANY long-posthumous novel turned out to be ANY good? Dave Starsky Mar 2019 #8

I may be the only one in America who likes *Go Set a Watchman*... First Speaker Mar 2019 #10

That was actually the first example that I thought of. Dave Starsky Mar 2019 #11

I might also mention *The Silmarillion*... First Speaker Mar 2019 #14