<<@Biographics
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<<@Welcomeback574
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Uploading my consciousness to the clouds so my soul can haunt Atticus Finch
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<<@Welcomeback574
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I absolutely loved it
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<<@mikeroberts7921
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I grew up near Monroeville. Had an opportunity to meet her and passed on it. While I would have loved to meet her, I figured she would be just fine without another adoring fan. And I have to wonder at anyone wishing to ban her book. Simply insane.
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<<@merikatools568
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Will Keeps grow pubes back?
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<<@gadenlich
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nohomes
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<<@ThorfinnSkullsplitter-fz7ff
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The woman seems to have been a bit of a phony. Her one-hit-wonder status largely because of Truman Capote. The fact that she never wrote anything else speaks volumes.
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<<@trevscribbles
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I'm definitely in the camp of "Go Set a Watchman" being a previous draft which shouldn't have been published, or at least shouldn't have been published as a sequel. It would have at least been more appropriate to release it as a fascinating little insight of where "...Mockingbird" eventually came from.
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<<@invisigoth510
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I read the book in high school & again in college in a fiction into film class where we read a book or short story & then watched a movie or television adaptation & compared & contrasted the two works & discussed why there might have been changes or omissions in the film version The works we studied: To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee The Big Sleep by Dashiell Hammett Sons & Lovers by DH Lawrence A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
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<<@sebastianniqvist3144
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This dude is on speed
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<<@louise8001
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This book was, and still is, mandatory reading in Australia for all Year 10 high schools. And yes, there were still those uneducated, narrow-minded simpletons who are still trying to have it removed from the curriculum.
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<<@briandoss9232
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Absolutely loved the book. Did not love the 110 page packet I had to do along with it.
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<<@estherdimaggio9156
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Crazy how women are half the population and yet there's only one female Biographics every several months or more. I'd rather hear about any of the remarkable famous women of history than like, the barrel-scraping content of the creator of Silly Putty or something. I am genuinely confused lol
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<<@Rasdawg915
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A couple years back I did some work in Monroeville Alabama for a few months. The people there are extremely proud being associated with Harper Lee.
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<<@WNYfellow
says :
Simon - that's a pretty nice sport coat! Maybe you can enlist the brand as a sponsor ...
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<<@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185
says :
Wow we’re getting down there. Wonder when we’ll get to Thomas Crapper the inventor of the toilet
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<<@tammy6610
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It's sad that today the woke are trying to sanitize her and many others work. Even goosebumps are being rewritten as to not offended people.
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<<@regina3743
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She is buried in the same cemetery as Alfred (Son) Boulware, who was the inspiration for her character, Boo Radley. Alfred is a distant cousin of mine.
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<<@patriciacole3030
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FYI--I am a distant relative of Nell (not Nellie) Harper Lee (she was my grandfather's first cousin). Our family is NOT connected to Robert E. Lee. We came from a different family named Lee.
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<<@TeamQuigley
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Do a video on Marie Corelli! Seems like noone has a good video on her life and works.
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<<@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat
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When we were forced to read it in school I caught crap because I didn't like it, liked the film even less. And before you make a nasty remark I'll remind you I have a right to my opinion, I'm not obligated to like something because everybody else does.
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<<@NaiveAgenda
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To Kill A Mockingbird is now being taken of shelves in Ontario, Canada in high schools because Atticus is a 'white savior' and has 'problematic themes and language'. I'm not kidding. These are the times we are living in.
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<<@billsimonis
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This was required reading in my English class (I think it was Freshenmen English). The book was very well written. Most of my classmates didn't like reading in general, but I really liked it. This book and another book titled The Bamboo Curtain were my favorite required reading books.
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<<@maryjohnson6796
says :
Have you done capote and the true crime genre?
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<<@rebecca1431
says :
This guy is as bald as a billiard ball, but he promotes Keeps to keep your hair. Wjhat a hypocrite!
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<<@proto-geek248
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What's with the snow? What is that supposed to do? Why is it snowing in the summer, in the courtroom, INSIDE Truman Capote's house AND the White House? Is it supposed to be artsy? Cuz it isn't.
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<<@PaulineMontagna
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I see the Harper Lee story as a tragedy of thwarted potential that was revealed by the publication of Go Set a Watchman. I think the most likely scenario is that Go Set a Watchman as it was later published was indeed the first draft of what was to become To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee’s editor Tay Hohoff didn’t like the complete novel, but saw potential in one small part of it for a very different novel, in fact one that would be the absolute opposite of the first draft and would reflect her beliefs and values and not Harper Lee’s at all. I believe that it was in fact Tay Hohoff who shaped To Kill a Mockingbird to the point where Harper Lee felt that there was nothing of hers left and that, to all intents and purposes, it wasn’t her novel at all but Tay Hohoff’s. When To Kill a Mockingbird received such accolades, Lee felt like a total fraud to the extent of losing all belief in herself as a writer and that is why she could never write another book.
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<<@kimsmith1746
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I used to read To Kill a Mockingbird once a year. I pre-ordered Go Set a Watchman and read it straight through. I've not read either book since. GSAW ruined TKAM for me. It affirmed that no matter how progressive someone may be in their adulthood, when they get old, the prejudices taught to them in their childhood rise to the surface.
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<<@samuelbarber6177
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A great writer. I recently read Go Set A Watchman and despite being very obviously a first draft, it’s still a great book, in my opinion. Worth a read if you’re interested.
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<<@susancarr9955
says :
Um, you do know that Lee dropped the Nelle from her professional name because she didn't want people calling her Nelly which she absolutely hated with a passion? Just sayin'.
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<<@jackiebinns6205
says :
My favorite book and movie😂
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<<@clairevancleave1508
says :
You’ve also mispronounced Capote’s name numerous times. Yours is unimpressive work.
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<<@fritzidler9871
says :
Harper Lee's reclusiveness reminds me of J.D. Salinger.
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<<@trog7986
says :
To Kill a Mockingbird is a beautiful book. I read it in middle school and it lead to many great discussions about racism and justice. I believe it should be required reading in every state
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<<@noneofurbusiness5223
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People forget how "the new south" was about hope & African-Americans were moving back to the south.
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<<@Doobydoobydoo1974
says :
I love Biographics. It’s educational, informative, and to the point. Is it possible to make a biographics for former French President François Mitterrand? An important figure whose impact is still felt today. Thank you.
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<<@kevinlawrence8580
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Do an expose of Gordon Parks.
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<<@fireseeker4him
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I watched the film as a child and loved it so much I wanted to read the book (a rare thing for me at that age). The film is one of the best adaptations in existence.
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<<@btetschner
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Ideas for future videos: x Sappho x Ivan Turgenev x Ezra Pound
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<<@markcarey67
says :
Some people only have one book in them but it happens to be a work of timeless genius - Joseph Heller and Catch 22 also comes to mind as well as Confederacy of Dunces
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<<@_nobodyxi
says :
Hey Simon I'm still waiting on the Caracalla video
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<<@coffinsmokej7408
says :
Booker T Washington please
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<<@deanadams3099
says :
There is very little if any information here that has not been covered extensively in dozens of other sources. Yes children the world was once ugly and unfair to many.
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<<@OnlyMichaelSparrow
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To Kill a Mockingbird changed my outlook on reading and about life.
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<<@inguss27i
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Wasn't there a group in germany years back that burned books that didn't follow their narrative? Give me a minute, it seems that anyone disagreeing with todays delusional agenda removing/cancelling books is called the same thing. Oh well, ill remember it and get back to you.
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<<@maxhand1562
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I live in Alabama and attended a workshop decades ago led by an author and educator who had done his best to arrange an interview with Harper Lee for years, but always unsuccessful. He did have friends in Monroeville, and went one day to visit them and to go with them to shop at the big outlet center that was there at that time. While shopping, another local came up to his friends and started talking to them. It was Harper Lee. So I don't believe he ever got to interview her, but he did get to meet her.
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<<@briancross7835
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"Alabama Humanities Award" Sounds rather oxymoronic...
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<<@jamescarter5883
says :
Great video. Could you do one on Andrew Jackson? He had an interesting life, and he's a polarizing president.
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<<@brianmouland209
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Truman Capote’s editor for In Cold Blood
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<<@mh3594
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Boooooo
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