I always find it interesting to read first drafts of what comes later to be a masterpiece or early writings of authors before they were famous. I have, to be honest, and say that while I like TKAM, I wasn't in love with it because I never saw Atticus anything more than a man who followed the Law first no matter the case or the person he was defending. I don't see Atticus as this beacon of hope, just a man doing his job.

With that said, GSAW was an interesting read, and I can tell that the best parts were the flashbacks of Scout's childhood, there were the most narrative and easy to understand. The rest of the book to use Harper Lee's editor for TKAM Tay Hohoff's words, "more a series of anecdotes than a fully conceived novel" is right. There are few gems of prose here and there, but you have to be willing to read through rambles for the prose.

I can understand how some readers who have put Atticus Finch on a pedestal and to now see him just as a man, not a man fighting for justice for a black man because of the Law would be disappointed.

Interesting read. I would only recommend if the reader is interested in early/unfinished works of great authors.