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

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
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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

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Review of To Kill A Mocking Bird

First of all I purchased this book mistakenly thinking that it is a book read by Stephen Colbert & others. Granted it is my fault may be not to have read what was being offered more carefully. All the same I think there was some confusion in how Audible presented the option, the graphics etc.

Worse than that, the panel was worse than any discussion that one may have heard in a grade school class room. The questions from the audience were not audible, only the answers were.. overall very disappointed! Next time I buy a book, I want the real thing - A good reading of the book not the chit chat that I paid for..

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Deja Vu

If you would like to re-live the grueling academic circle-jerk of a LIT.101 "discussion group," this is a little better. In the end, I resent this recording even more because it pours gasoline on my already burning desire to revisit this book.

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not what it seems

I wish I would have read reviews before purchasing the "book". I was looking for the book it self and this was not what it seems.

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  • 08-22-11

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!

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Misleading

The sample leads the listener to believe this is the actual book. It is not clear that it is only commentary.

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THIS IS NOT THE BOOK--rip-off

Audible is supposed to be a site to get BOOKS in audible form.
THIS IS A GROUP OF LIBERALS TALKING ABOUT THE BOOK.

I WANT MY MONEY BACK!

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Great Discussion about To Kill a Mockingbird

What did you love best about Thalia Book Club: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration?

I liked that the speakers felt deeply about the characters and events in the book. The discussion helped me understand the book better.

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Program Type: Speech, isn't misleading

Not sure why this received negative reviews from those who were looking and thinking they purchased the audiobook.....the program type clearly states it's a Speech, as most symphonyspace productions are. And the summary describes it as follows: The evening includes readings, discussion and audience Q&A. 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. We used this with a class studying Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird and found it very informative.

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Not what I thought it was going to be.

What disappointed you about Thalia Book Club: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration?

I didn't realize it wasn't the actual book

What was most disappointing about Symphony Space’s story?

It isn't a story.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Once I realized what it is, I didn't finish it

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?

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Any additional comments?

No

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disappointment

Any additional comments?

what a waste of credits, this is not the book only an overview and excerpts

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