I read about one book every two years - if that much. Just not a book reader. I’m like a little kid with astronomy books: love to look at the Hubble Telescope photos of the galaxies. The colors and images are beyond spectacular.

As a kid, though, I read books like crazy. Isaac Asimov’s books on astronomy, the Nancy Drew mysteries. Nowadays, it’s just news and sports. Why this is the case, I don’t know.

My children and grandson, read the book as requrired reading for English and loved it. I have seen the movie, but not read the book. My daughter requires her son to read a book a movie is based on, before allowing him to see the movie in all cases, which I hope is something he carries on with his own children someday.

I read it once and loved it.  I rarely read any book more than once, though.  I recently read the biography about Harper Lee.  That kind of gave me a new perspective about the book so I may have to make an exception and re-visit this book.  I’ve also seen the movie twice, I think. 

Seen the movie, not read the book. I love to read and have a lot of books. Some day, I will get arround to buying that one and reading it.

Often, I do the reverse:  see the movie and like it so much that I must read the book.  I read the book, may read it again, love to read and am reading something or other at all times — sometimes more than one at a time.

I have read it twice, both times as an assignment for classes. I’ve read, analyzed and cited it as much as I care to, but I have been in discussions of it each time that my children had to read it.

I love to read, but I prefer ‘independent reading’ of my own choosing. I have read two of the four summer reading books recommended by WoW, currently working on a third. ‘Cutting for Stone’ is the best novel I have read in a long time. It is over 500 pages but something tells me that a person could almost get through it in a day at the beach because it’s that good!

I’ve lost count on the re-reads, but then I do a lot of re-reading, so it doesn’t really speak about the quality of the book, more than my reading habits.  I find when you return to a book, you always get something new from your different perspective.  I wasn’t wowed by this book.  Even when I was younger, the "interest" for me lay in the author and her relationship with Truman Capote.

I read it first back in high school, and then, it seemed I was compelled to re-read it every few years, just to revisit those wonderful characters. When I started teaching, I used it often in class, along with the absolutely wonderful film. It is definitely one of those stories that never fails to move me, no matter how often I have read it. There are a few books that grab me like this: Mrs. Dalloway; The Magic Mountain; Madame Bovary; A Passage to India; My Antonia; The House of Mirth. Boy, I could go on all day! The one thing all my choices have in common? Wonderful, fully human, flawed, thoughtfully-created characters engaged in the struggle to understand their lives a little better. That’s what keeps me coming back to a book over and over: trying to figure out through a character’s engagement with life a little more about my own life.

I voted once, because that is the truth.  But the answer:  "Once was enough" sounds so snide, and I absolutely ADORED the book!  Would I read it again?  You bet, if I had the time.  My life is a matter of too many books, too little time!

I read this book twice and loved every word.  And I think it translated well to the screen.  Harper Lee had a wonderful feeling for that time period and the prejudice that existed —-