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Summary: Passes My Test Of Time Superbly
Review: I first read this novel set during the Civil War when I was 12 years old. Shortly after that I was able to see the film version in an old downtown theater during one of its periodic rereleases. I was enthralled by both the novel and film. Is there anyone out there who doesn't know the plot? For the 10 people in the world who don't know, it features Scarlet O'Hara, a Southern belle, living that role to the hilt on her family's Southern, slave-worked plantation, when all hell breaks loose with the Civil War. Admirable for her survivor qualities, Scarlet is also manipulative and ruthless but meets her match in Rhett Butler, a Southerner who manages to move profitably among both sides of the War while most of the South is starving. I reread this novel as an adult, expecting that with my many more years of reading since that first read, that I would find the book over the top and soap opera like. It didn't happen. I couldn't put it down and had every bit as fascinating a time reading it again as I did the first time. If you haven't given it a reread in many a year, try it yourself and you'll be very pleasantly surprised.
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Summary: A MUST FOR ALL READERS
Review: This is a book that really made me think about human nature, about how we sometimes get stuck with an idea, a person or a memoire that no longer is what we think it is. Like Scarlet spending her life loving Ashley with all her heart, but what she really loved was an illusion, ironically the illusion of what Rhett truly was.
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Summary: If you've only seen the movie, you're missing a lot of story
Review: I've loved GWTW since I first saw it at the age of 12, but it wasn't until I was almost 30 before I read the book and boy was I surprised! Scarlett had more than one child! Margaret Mitchell wrote about characters other than those in the movie and once you read the novel, you'll wonder how Selznick was ever able to get the movie made. What a story. What an author. Read it and finally understand.
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Summary: It Changed My Life! A MUST read!
Review: Gone with the Wind changed my point of veiw on the Civil War and how hard women worked and tried to be ladies. Scarlett worked hard to prevent Tara from being taken away and preventing hunger of her family. My point on the Civil War was southerners were terrible people but GWTW changed changed all that, most people treated their "workers" or slaves as part of the family and were happy. It was the yankee's who were terrible the wouldn't let the south be they had to torture them. The story is very good and if you haaven't read it YOU MUST READ IT.
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Summary: The Classic southern love story of the 20th century
Review: When I read Margaret Mitchell's classic "Gone With the Wind," I was in the eighth grade and as impressionable as a young teen can be. It was my favorite for a long time, and I can still pick it up and reread it without getting bored. A cousin really loves it too, or I thought she did till I learned she loves the movie and had never read the novel. Well! She's read it now, and discovered that not only did Scarlett have other children, she also has ways and feelings you'd never know from the film alone. One example is the maid in the O'Hara household named Mammy. Though she is indeed in the movie, she is a much rounder character in the novel. On her deathbed, Scarlett stays by her side unselfishly, nursing her to the end. Other slave characters are more prominent in the novel also, such as some that move and marry. Vivian Leigh did justice to her role, as did all the others, but still, all pale in comparison to the depths they possess in the book. Screenplays are so different to read than novels that they don't seem to compare either. Sometimes a novel reads so visually that you believe the author had a film version in mind when writing it. One that struck me as such recently was "The Horse Whisperer." The opening scenes with the girls on horseback, the slow-motion effect of the wreck, all of it, was like watching a movie instead of reading a book. The ability to write this way may be a great talent that most don't possess. What are you thoughts on novels to film? I'd like to know. And, if you've never read your "Gone With the Wind," try it today and see what you missed in that favorite of yours.
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Summary: Gone With The Wind
Review: This is one of the best books ever.
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Summary: This stuck with me.
Review: There ae some books you read, love and remember forever. This was one of them. If you hesitate to read this just because it is such a popular book, or you think that it's a romance novel, DON'T. I read it a couple years ago, well after I was out of highschool. I didn't think that I would care for it. Boy, was I wrong. I was hooked just a couple pages into the book. I felt like I knew these people. I could not put the book down. It was one of those books you just can't wait to read and you drag it with you wherever you go, in hopes of being able to sneak in a page or two. Read this book. It will leave an imprint on you. I wanted so much to keep reading after it stopped that I tried to read the "sequel" (written by a different author) and was unimpressed. I returned the book after reading the first paraghraph. There's nothing like Margaret Mitchell's Scarlet.
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Summary: Amazing. Just amazing.
Review: I am only a teenager, but I have read this book cover to cover at least 5 times. It is absolutely amazing. It takes a very good book to make me cry, but by the end of Gone With the Wind, I'm bawling my eyes out. I'm in a bad mood for days every time I read it because of the ending. It makes me so frusterated. I never thought a book could do that. As soon as I found out there was a sequel, I went to the library and read it. It may not be as good as Gone With the Wind (but then, what is?) but it gives a plausible answer to this phenomenal saga of the south.
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Summary: Historically Interesting, a peak into the past.
Review: I love books, and I love history. It seems that this book was a godsend for me! Wars have never interested me, the civil war, of course seemed like a no brainer: Yankees=good, Confederates=bad. But this book has made me realize that both sides suffered. It wasn't a no-brainer...it was difficult for everyone. Girls and boys, Women, Men, everyone! So many people suffered, and were hurt. This book is a wonderful mix of adventure, romance and history, weaved together to make one of the best books of all time.
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Summary: If you never read another book...
Review: This is the world's best book EVER! I have read hundreds of books, and not one rivaled this one! If you never read another book in your whole life, read this one. It is so amazing. You can't put it down. MM spins a web around you and you are trapped until the book is through. For two days after I read the book, I talked of nothing but the book (I am dead serious-ask my mom) Scarlett changed my life, she inspired me, she taught what to do- and what NOT to do. This book is the greatest.
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