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Summary: Great Book for all ages!
Review: Hey Everyone! I absolutely LOVE this book. Everybody thought that I was crazy because I am 11 years old and I read a book with over 1,000 pages. But the book turned out to be wonderful! I would recommend it to everybody. The tale of Scarlett O'Hara stole my heart. Margaret Mitchell is a wonderful author and a great story teller. Everybody has to read this stupendous novel at least one time in their life!
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Summary: a timeless epic
Review: Beautiful headstrong Scarlett O'Hara is a 16-year-old belle of genteel Southern society when the Civil War breaks out. The love of her life, quiet intellectual Ashley Wilkes, turns down her offers of love and marries sweet gentle Melanie Hamilton before going to war. In a fit of vengeful passion, Scarlett accepts the marriage proposal of Melanie's brother Charles. Thus, Melanie and Scarlett's lives are intertwined as Scarlett finds a way for them both to survive the war and all that follows. Melanie genuinely loves Scarlett as a sister, while Scarlett only takes care of Melanie so Ashley will eventually fall in love with herself instead. Rhett Butler, a blackguard who is not exactly welcomed by good families, is Scarlett's constant gentleman caller who never once falls for her simpering flirtations, much to her anger. Every girl has a bit of Scarlett O'Hara and Melanie Hamilton in her, and hopes she sees her Rhett Butler for what he is instead of chasing after an Ashley Wilkes. Read this book to find out why -- it has been a classic since it was first published in the 1930s!!!!
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Summary: Frankly My Dear... There is nothing like it!!!!!!!!!
Review: I never thought a book good be so beautiful, so wonderful, good enough to eat. I saw the movie in 3rd grade and fell in love with it. I decided to go to my school library and pick up a copy of the book. I started reading and even the librarian couldnt believe that such a young child, with such an adult book.My teacher, and class mates, IMPRESSED! For me, I never wanted to stop. From Twelve Oaks to Tara, the thrill never ends. So I finished it with partly understanding but then re-read it in sixth grade. The words that were chosen to make this book, is truly amazing. I have to hand it to your Margaret Mitchell, for creating the best book that America will ever know. Because with all of the books I have read and with all of the books I am going to read, I know there is nothing like, "Gone with The Wind." "Frankly My dear...there is nothing like it!" So I am suggesting you start reading it soon, because if you dont have time to day, dont worry . . . "Because tomorrow is another day,"
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Summary: Nothing Like it
Review: Reading I have started since kindergraten, and never have I read better. Gond with the Wind is a book of history and it is timless.
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Summary: Excellent Book, Not So Excellent Edition
Review: You can tell by every other review of this book and probably by the advice of people you know that "Gone with the Wind" is an enduring classic. I LOVE THIS BOOK! But, be warned that this paperback edition has several spelling and gramatical errors. I was quite disapointed by the editing done here.
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Summary: It's Fiction, not History
Review: The book is better than the movie, and might be worth reading if you need an immense tome to take on vacation. Much as I despise this silly book, I have to admit it is a prime page turner. Its chief interest as a book is as a window into the viewpoint of history so common in the white upper crust South in the 1930's. The casually racist attitudes of Margaret Mitchell are a good example, and enough to make any quasi-enlightened being howl with outrage. Ditto the views on Andersonville, Reconstruction and especially the benefits of slavery to Black people.
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Summary: Gone With The Wind- the book, the icon
Review: Gone With The Wind is one of the most powerful works of literature I've ever read- its fluildy eloquent style and intricatly crafted descriptions make it seem more like a scene being played out, rather than words on page. I couldn't put it down- there are so many twists, and nothing turns out the way you hope it would. This is the best book I've ever read, and I recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: If Not Now, When?
Review: The summer I was 15, between Junior High and High School, my mother recommended that I read this book. Of course I wasn't going to listen to HER...so I pouted around for a few days, and then one evening, afraid I was going to succumb to utter boredom, I picked it up. For the next week, I did nothing but read Gone with the Wind. I read it every waking moment, far into the night, first thing in the morning. I remember having a perpetual headache from eyestrain. I simply could not stop until the last page, when I burst into tears, and sobbed for what seemed like hours.
The book has much the same effect on me now. Every few years, I read it cover to cover, even though I can quote key passages by heart by this time. So let me tell you a little bit about Gone with the Wind, the first thing being that it is not what you think it is. It's hard to compete with David O'Selznick here, even though he's dead, but I beg you to put the movie aside, and prepare yourself for sheer, satisfying, bosom-heaving pleasure. This was a thoroughly amazing book in the thirties, and it wears well. It is much more than the story of spoiled, willful Scarlet O'Hara and her deadly flirtations. Scarlet may have been the first feminist. Women in her day had no power whatsoever. Their entire lives were decided by convention: whom they should marry, what they should eat, where they should live, what they should wear. But Scarlet would have none of it. And the only way she could break free of convention was to use her wiles to flaunt it. She did--and it worked. She was and is my hero, selfish and vain as she was. On quite another level, this is the heartbreaking story of the War Between the States from the Southern point of view. As a teen who was raised in California, I had no clue about how the South felt about the War, and no way to find out. This book, silly as some may find it, taught me that there are two sides to any conflict, two equally powerful and opposing points of view that are tragically at odds. Sound familiar? Not much different than the Middle East today.
Now a word about the book's purported racism. Yes, there are slaves in this book, and I am not going to presume to tell you not to resent or be angry about that fact. But considering the time in which she lived, I think that Margaret Mitchell tried to deal with the issue of slavery as best she could. The slaves in the book are not the simpering fools of the movie. They are portrayed with as much dignity as I think Mitchell could manage when considering that there was no way she could condone OR ignore that slavery was a fact during the Civil War. Mammy is not a caricature in the book, Prissy is a much more sympathetic young woman, and the other slaves are portrayed as thinking, feeling, human beings.The Emancipation is not regretted, and is seen from the freed slaves' point of view as much as possible. That having been said, I am not advocating this book as something it is not. It is not an abolitionist work, and it is not anti-slavery per se. It is not anything more than phenomenally well-written story with a lot of truly interesting historical information about the 1860s and beyond. Gone with the Wind is the story of a lifetime, not the caliber of War and Peace, but for its time, incredibly good reading. Summer is almost upon us. This is a perfect time to sit under a magnolia tree with a mint julep and treat yourself to an old-fashioned story you'll never forget.
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Summary: Gone With the Wind
Review: I may just may be a 12-year-old girl, but when I read this book, I fell completely in love with it. I have the movie, an anthology and a paperback version that needs to be replaced after I find a hardcover version in stores. In a way it was better than the movie. It gave you a different idea about what Scarlett O'Hara was like and what she went through. It was and is just an excelent example of American history.
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Summary: All Time Favourite.
Review: I have read this book about 4 times. I also own the DVD.
This is the most suitable book for romantic souls.
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