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 what I expected

There is nothing from the book except commentary and literary analysis of the book. I do appreciate it, however, that was not how it was presented online.

False advertising

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

This book was advertised on Amazon as "unabridged". It is not a book. Its a bunch of celebrities talking about a book. I guessed it would have been celebrities reading the book, which it is not. They are talking about the book

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

Yes

What didn’t you like about the narrators’s performance?

It was not the actual book

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?

I would read the book

Any additional comments?

Change the listing of this title

Rip off

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

It is not the whole book. It is just a few things from the book.

Would you ever listen to anything by Symphony Space again?

No never.

How could the performance have been better?

It could have been the whole book or at least said it wasn't in the discription.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

I hated being ripped off.

Any additional comments?

be honest about what you are selling.

Lovely discussion

This conversation made me want to read the book again right now. Beautiful readings too.

Not what we expected

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

Was not the Book we thought we were getting. Missed a good description--but not sure how i'd have done different, as there did not seem to be more offered.

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

Maybe

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Really didn't listen to him long enough to know

Angry! Very deceptive...thought it was the novel!

Would love to have gotten "To Kill A Mockingbird!" The audio sample is someone reading the book. Wonder why I assumed it actually was the book? Feel robbed.

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..

not the book, its a discussion

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

no

Would you ever listen to anything by Symphony Space again?

no

Any additional comments?

the description was sorely lacking before you buy the book, I thought I was getting a reading of the actual book.

Not the whole story...

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

Why advertise a book if the whole story is not available...disappointed.

What character would you cut from Thalia Book Club: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration?

did not listen to it since it was not the whole book.

Don't buy this, it is not the book!

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

A headline that states this is not the book, but a discussion of the book!

Any additional comments?

Very misleading!