BOTB: To Kill a Mockingbird (Dannypav) Of Mice & Men (BanjoSaviola)

[MK Shrimper]

B'jesus, two big guns of the literary canon....

 

[Eastblack]

To Kill a Mocking Bird for me, although Of Mice & Men is also fantastic.

 

[Ricky Otto]

So hard as they are both great, tough draw! TKAMB edges it

 

[MK Shrimper]

Only read TKAMB fairly recently and I ate it up - my original choice for this battle. Absolutely amazing work of fiction - and I almost called my daughter Scout.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Only read TKAMB fairly recently and I ate it up - my original choice for this battle. Absolutely amazing work of fiction - and I almost called my daughter Scout.

If I ever have a dog I'm calling it Tim Johnson

 

[Pubey]

Crazy that OMAM could fall at the first hurdle...

 

[MK Shrimper]

Crazy that OMAM could fall at the first hurdle...

Like R3 of an FA Cup draw my friend.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Difficult choice but Mocking Bird is the better and more important book.

 

[londonblue]

Blimey, a duel between two that I have read. However good Of Mice and Men is, I don't think anything will beat TKAM for me though.

 

[OldBlueLady]

A tie fit for the final imho. Got to go for TKAMB though, just an awesome piece of literature.

 

[Razam]

TKAMB for me , one of the all time greats
I couldn't really get into OMAM when I was younger..I might try reading it again though.

 

[banjo saviola]

Right, my chance to stick up for my choice of these 2 American classics. There's so much to OMAM and it's put across in such a simplistic way. Friendship, trust, unachievable aspirations, justice, injustice, prejudice are covered so eloquently throughout. My 2 favourite aspects to OMAM are;

1) Curly's wife has no name...she is only ever referred to as 'Curly's wife'. This gives the reader a constant reminder that she is property and therefore there is always an underlying sense of danger, menace and temptation around her.....

2) The relationship between the the smart-Alec, streetwise George and the slow, affable, doesn't-know-his-own-strength Lennie is a format that has been imitated countless times since. Think Hans Solo/Chewbacca, think DeVito/Schwarzenegger in Twins, think Jack Payne/Barry Corr :-)

 

[RHB]

To my eternal shame I haven't read either so I'm out.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

To my eternal shame I haven't read either so I'm out.

Take English Lit GCSE at night school and you'll have to analyse the language surrounding Curley's wife (and the significance of her never being named) so often that the phrase 'Of Mice and Men' will make your parents fein blindness so as to avoid proofreading yet another essay on it. Good book though.

 

[MK Shrimper]

OMAM squeaks out. TKAMB into last 16.

 

[banjo saviola]

Best of luck to Dannypav. I'm hoping TKAMB goes on to win it now. :clap: