How bad is Go Set a Watchman?

[cookietime]

Sorry if this has already been discussed to death - I'm not a regular on here, but it seemed like an appropriate place for my question.

I have Go Set a Watchman as an ebook from the library right now. I'm a couple chapters in, and it's already disappointing. Should I just stop now? If I finish it will it affect my enjoyment of future re-reads of To Kill a Mockingbird?

[dorothyinAus]

My mother-in-law read it. She says she can see why the editor suggested to pull out the parts that became To Kill a Mockingbird. And she says that Atticus is very much a character of his time. It didn't color her view of Atticus, but she said she could see how it would change others' opinions. She's not sorry she read it, but she said that it wasn't necessary to read it it either.

I haven't decided yet whether I'm going to read it.

[frog]

I thought it was awful and regret reading it. It wasn't meant to be published, so there is no real editing which made it difficult to read.

[aurora]

I struggled with it. I'm still kind of glad I read it since Mockingbird is so fabulous and I wanted to be able to have the cultural conversations that would invariably include Watchman, but it's not even in the same class of books.

[msmerymac]

I don't regret reading it, but I won't read it again. It honestly seems like TKAM fanficion.

[Dusky]

If you're not enjoying it now, stop reading it. It really doesn't get any better. It didn't change my view of TKAM, though

[labbie]

Knowing what I know now, I would not have regretted putting it down and moving on. I can say that having finished it, it definitely would not impact my love for and re-reads of TKAM. If anything it makes me appreciate it more for the wonderful work that it is.

[revjen]

I felt really uncomfortable about the whole story surrounding it so I made the decision not to read it. Apparently, I wasn't wrong.

[sassypants]

I enjoyed it, but I'm apparently in the minority. It is not TKAM and it wasn't meant to be, and it deals with the harsh realities of the tumultuous south during Jim Crow.

[monkeyfeet]

Apr 8, 2016 20:17:23 GMT -5 sassypants said:

I enjoyed it, but I'm apparently in the minority. It is not TKAM and it wasn't meant to be, and it deals with the harsh realities of the tumultuous south during Jim Crow.

I'm in the minority with you!