How should I read it?

Hello, book lovers!  I hope all is well.  I've been putting off writing this post because...well...I honestly don't know how to frame my thoughts.  I'm currently reading Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee, the author of the American classic To Kill A Mockingbird.  The book has been surrounded in controversy since before its July 2015 release, and I didn't know if I even wanted to read it.  After I finished What Alice Forgot, however, I got on our school's ebook library site, and Go Set A Watchman popped up on the screen first.  Since I was home sick and wasn't physically capable of making much of an effort (truth be told), I downloaded it.  I'm currently 66 % of the way through it and need to finish in the next two days, before it disappears from my Kindle.


First of all, if you need background on the controversy, here is a link to an opinion piece published in The New York Times this summer.  Click here for the publisher's write-up of the book (keep in mind they are trying to sell the book).  Perhaps most interestingly, here is an article about a bookstore that offered refunds to customers who felt duped after purchasing and reading the book.  Talk about scandal!

I really wanted to enjoy, like, perhaps just appreciate this book.  Harper Lee herself is such an enigma, having never published another book again after To Kill A Mockingbird.  I'm trying to view it as a first draft written by a young, idealistic author many years ago, but I'm having a hard time getting past some of her most basic errors, such as switching point-of-view between first- and third- person multiple times in the story.   Lee will be referring to Jean Louise by name (the main character) and then all of a sudden, she's in first person, using "I" and "me".  It also took a long, long time to get into the main conflict of the story.  I believe I was over a third of the way through the novel before conflict actually started happening.

One part I did find interesting related closely to our Honors English narratives, and the requirement to demonstrate inter-textuality by including a poem or research.  Lee did just that:

     "An absurd verse vibrated in Jean Louise's memory.  Where had she read it?
        By right Divine, my dear Augusta, 
        We've had another awful buster;
        Ten thousand Frenchmen sent below.
        Praise God from Whom all blessings
           flow.
      She wondered where Hester had pick up her information"  (Lee 62 %).

I'm going to work on finishing it, and I'll post my final thoughts at a later date.  Have any of you read it?  If so, what are your thoughts?  Or do you plan on reading it?  I'd love to know!