I can't believe I've never read this before! What I've been missing my entire life...

This book is incredible. The voice is just so perfect - so many children, in books, don't sound much like children at all, really, but Scout is absolutely lifelike. And while I've heard that Atticus Finch is one of the great figures in fiction, I heard it like I heard the atomic weight of uranium, for instance - something known intellectually but having no emotional weight behind it.

I got this book from the library. All I can say is that I have to go out and get a copy of my very own as soon as possible.