Thalia Book Club: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' 50th Anniversary Celebration - Readings, Discussion and Audience Q&A

By: Symphony Space

Narrated by: Stephen Colbert, Isaiah Sheffer, Jayne Anne Phillips, Mary McDonagh Murphy, Oskar Eustis, Libba Bray, Kurt Andersen

Length: 1 hr and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

Performance playlist: Readings and conversation with Kurt Andersen, Libba Bray, Stephen Colbert, Oskar Eustis, Mary McDonagh Murphy, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Isaiah Sheffer, a discussion with the audience.

Authors and actors including Stephen Colbert, Libba Bray (award winning young-adult novelist Going Bovine, winner of 2010 Printz Award), Oskar Eustis (Artistic Director at The Public Theater), Kurt Andersen (novelist and Studio 360 Host), Jayne Anne Phillips (novelist and National Book Award finalist Lark & Termite), filmmaker Mary McDonagh Murphy (author of the upcoming book Scout, Atticus, and Boo), and others pay tribute to the Pulitzer prize-winning classic novel about racial injustice and loss of innocence in a small Southern town. One of the most taught -- and frequently challenged -- books of the last 50 years, the book was voted the best novel of the 20th century by librarians. The evening includes readings, discussion and audience Q&A.

©2010 Symphony Space (P)2010 Symphony Space

NOT THE BOOK

Would you try another book from Symphony Space and/or the narrators?

This is NOT the book. It's people reading ch by ch and then talking about it!

TOTAL BS!!

This is NOT the book!!!! RIP OFF!!! Don't waste your money, this is just some guys talking about the book...

Waist Of Time!

this is a waist of money unless you love to hear people read one page and the talk for the rest of the track pretending that they are smart! why they call this an audio book i do not know! there is no point to this at all if your looking for an audiobook the sample track is fooling you!

False Advertising

What would have made Thalia Book Club: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration better?

If it were actually a recording of the book.

Would you ever listen to anything by Harper Lee again?

Yes.

Any additional comments?

Don't buy this if you, like I was, are looking for an audio recording of the book. I am an English teacher and find that audiobooks are more appealing to the students than my voice reading to them all the time. I thought this was and updated version. I was terribly mistaken.

Tricked!

I thought this was the book! Dont be fooled like I was and download this thinking it is in fact the actual novel!

Read Comments First

Would you try another book from Symphony Space and/or the narrators?

I learned a lesson from this. Read other people's thoughts first. Its chapter one in some book club reading. Not expecting this at all. Change the title from "UNABRIDGED" to "ABRIDGED". Waste of money.

NOT THE BOOK

Would you try another book from Harper Lee and/or the narrators?

How terrible. I was looking for the audio book and this isn't the book at all. The description and title are misleading. I hate that I had to pay for this and it's my first purchase from audible.com. Don't waste your money or time,

Misleading

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

I wish there had been some reviews when I first bought this. It's not the story. Very disappointed!!

Would you be willing to try another one of the narrators’s performances?

No

I thought this was an audio book

I thought this was an audio book of To Kill A Mockingbird. No. This is a recording of a group of actors reading sections and making actorly comments. I thought they had little to say and nothing to add to the text. Some of them tried to be funny. I was disappointed and irritated that I had wasted me time and I find myself still in the market for what I originally thought I was buying - not the experience I had bargained for.

AVOID THIS.

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

People who want to waste $4 on a 100-minute conversation about a book.

Has Thalia Book Club: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration turned you off from other books in this genre?

What is this genre?

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of the narrators?

Sissy Spacek, like in the real audiobook.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Thalia Book Club: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration?

Every single scene, then replaced it by a 10-hour unabridged reading by Sissy Spacek. How is that original audiobook not available on Audible?

Any additional comments?

I think it is deceitful for the publishers of this