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by rosstafarian 4787 days ago
Harper Lee is a very private person, almost never gives interviews and hasn't written any other books, so yeah very understandable reaction. I really love to kill a mockingbird, still remember being assigned to read it in 7th grade. The teacher actually started by reading the first part of the book to us in class and i was hooked, went home and actually read ahead(quite a big deal for a bored 7th grader that barely did enough to get by when he had his IRC friends waiting). I think thats a huge reason for me being an avid reader today.

I really hope this Pinkus guy gets what he deserves. People that take advantage of the elderly are right near child molesters on the scumbag scale, and forcing some one that obviously values their privacy to have to make a public spectacle of themselves like this should be a crime in its own right.

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> I really love to kill a mockingbird, ...

What a wonderful example sentence for why quotes are needed in grammar.

I guess this is the English language equivalent of an SQL injection.

Book titles are not a quotation and therefore generally aren't put in quotation marks. Instead they are written in title case and underlined or italicised.
Sure, but titles of short stories, like "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream", or songs, like "Hey Jude", are often rendered in quotation marks.
Don't be a jerk.
Seconded its bloody obvious what the meaning is from context