{"id":6617,"date":"2015-08-05T09:18:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T13:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2015-08-05T09:18:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T13:18:46","slug":"bookseller-offers-refund-for-go-set-a-watchman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6617","title":{"rendered":"Bookseller Offers Refund for &#8216;Go Set a Watchman&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bookseller says the hype over Harper Lee&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/aug\/04\/us-bookshop-offering-refunds-for-go-set-a-watchman-harper-lee\"><em>Go Set a Watchman\u00a0<\/em>mislead readers<\/a>, who are now expressing their disappointment in what was supposed to be a new classic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brilliant Books in Traverse City, Michigan, has said that its \u201cdozens\u201d of customers for <em>Go Set a Watchman<\/em> are owed \u201crefunds and apologies\u201d over the way the novel has been presented. \u201cIt is disappointing and frankly shameful to see our noble industry parade and celebrate this as \u2018Harper Lee\u2019s New Novel\u2019,\u201d the bookseller writes on its website. \u201cThis is pure exploitation of both literary fans and a beloved American classic (which we hope has not been irrevocably tainted). We therefore encourage you to view <em>Go Set a Watchman<\/em> with intellectual curiosity and careful consideration; a rough beginning for a classic, but only that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nwinspeare\/15343617482\/in\/photolist-pnS3V1-8TehHm-5PbZUj-8TbbtT-nc5DQ5-73WDhv-cxH5yu-a8nHNn-741zTj-dP6zmT-73WD9e-8G7cZv-aJPzk6-a7oYo4-65JcrP-cxH5UL-sKHES9-dtPmGa-o2J5Hw-65JcH4-8SVnWm-cxuC1u-8GzbBw-6WGDeC-eavKoW-2pp7Kt-8TMFbm-62GFMJ-9w37bw-9hjao6-o7J3Ma-7habUP-rXCphC-65jH1o-cEJpky-5jxVGJ-p6YGuM-oy9CG4-eEPdkv-82dtzv-65Pyiz-6D7G1s-6J7DHr-4TrGH5-5DpJMY-65fran-g2hg4x-gGEfdQ-4jRLmT-fAFaTi\" title=\"The Watchman\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3888\/15343617482_f9b1d1de7d_n.jpg?resize=320%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"The Watchman\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bookseller says the hype over Harper Lee&#8217;s Go Set a Watchman\u00a0mislead readers, who are now expressing their disappointment in what was supposed to be a new classic. Brilliant Books in Traverse City, Michigan, has said that its \u201cdozens\u201d of customers for Go Set a Watchman are owed \u201crefunds and apologies\u201d over the way the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6617\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bookseller Offers Refund for &#8216;Go Set a Watchman&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[1079,1170],"class_list":["post-6617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling","category-fiction","tag-go-set-a-watchman","tag-harper-lee"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}