LongeCity - Recommended: Go Skip A Watchman

Anne Strieber, wife of author Whitley Strieber, wrote this in her blog:

[indent=1]Go Skip a Watchman[/indent]

[indent=1]Thursday, July 16, 2015[/indent]

[indent=1]There's a ad on TV that claims that the oldest trees produce the sweetest fruit. I grew up on an orchard, and I know that this is wrong. The oldest trees produce the sourest fruit. At 89, Harper Lee has proved the truth of this in her new book, Go Set a Watchman. In it, one of America's greatest fictional heroes, Atticus Finch, is portrayed as a segregationist. . .[/indent]

[indent=1][T]his text . . . should certainly have remained in the safety deposit box where it was found.[/indent]

I agree. Some people get irrational and sour as they get older. If Harper Lee had really wanted to publish this, wouldn't she have done it earlier?

Read the original source: http://www.unknowncountry.com/diary/go-skip-watchman#ixzz3gyD4Pec6

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