Go Set A Watchman **********SPOILER ALERT************

THIS IS YOUR VERY VERY VERY LARGE SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!

Anyway, without further ado, my thoughts:

There are some books you need to read all in one go. There are some books you need to finish at 1:30 in the morning in the bathroom. There are some books you need to cry about, some books that you need to read without listening to music, some books you need to internalize before you say anything.
I understand why there has been much controversy over this book. It shows that the Scout of TKAM was a very imperfect narrator. She was six, and so saw only the good, or the bad, in the people around her, depending on what she felt was the appropriate response. As Dr. Finch says in the book, she adopted her father's conscience, and so everything he did was good, and everything he opposed was bad, but that wasn't always the case. Atticus does what he has to do, and Scout doesn't take that very well when she does not agree.
People say that this book feels nothing like TKAM, and I say, thank goodness! In TKAM, Scout was SIX. In GSAW, she is TWENTY-SIX. Of course she sees things differently! I see things differently from when I was six. Heck, I even see things differently from yesterday. We are all imperfect narrators; Scout just as much. She doesn't have the rose-coloured glasses; she's lived her life. Jem died, Atticus grew old, Alexandra moved in, Dr. Finch came back, Scout went to New York, she calls herself Jean Louise, for goodness sakes! Scout is a different person, so of course the book flows differently.
This is an amazing book, and I loved it, not because I liked it, but because I didn't. It was a hard pill to swallow. Every preconceived notion you had about anyone of those characters, especially Atticus was wiped away. I was upset, yes, I was downright terrified. I felt my heroes being taken away. But, that's what Scout felt. People are not who you expect them to be. Have anyone's idols ever been who they appeared to be. Probably not. This is a darned good book because it shows life, it shows growing up in exquisite detail. Life, and growing up, mean finding out that not everything is as you assumed it would be.
I think the reason many people don't like this book is that it isn't what they expected. That is precisely why I like it. It does the unexpected because that's what life does. Life is unexpected, life is ugly, life hurts. This book shows life. Everyone goes through what Scout went through, everyone feels her pain. Her pain is our pain. And that makes me love Scout even more. And that doesn't make me love Atticus any less. He has become more of a hero, by letting Scout become her own person, and he made some pretty good points.
JUST BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T LIKE IT, DOESN'T MEAN IT WASN'T A DAMN GOOD BOOK!
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Chorus of the Day!

She's an American beauty

I'm an American psycho

She's an American beauty

I'm an American, I'm an American

American Psycho

I'm an American, I'm an American

I'm, I'm, I'm an American psycho

Last Chorus of the Day:
Wheel in the Sky by Journey

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La! ~SCP