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Summary: PLEASE DON'T END
Review: I READ THIS BOOK AT ABOUT THE AGE OF 14. IT WAS THE FIRST BOOK ,EVEN AT THE LENGTH IT IS, THAT I DIDN'T WANT TO END! I SO MUCH WANTED THE CHARACTERS TO CONTINUE! WHEN I FINALLY SAW THE MOVIE YEARS LATER-IT WAS MORE THAN I COULD HAVE ASKED FOR. IT WAS ABOUT THAT TIME THAT I FELL IN LOVE WITH CLARK GABLE! I FEEL THAT THIS BOOK WAS THE ORIGINAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE NOVEL, AND THAT EVERYTHING ELSE PALES IN COMPARISON!
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Summary: Passion and Power: One Woman's Struggle with War and Love
Review: I LOVE this book! It is one of the only books I know of where the dialogue is so great that the dialogue in the movie was taken almost word-for-word from the book! And this definitely was the perfect role for Vivien Leigh, one of my favorite actresses. I just acquired a 1936 hardcover version of the book. I love old books and this will go terrifically with my collection. I feel like this copy could be the one Vivien Leigh read over and over before she got the role. She kept telling everyone she was going to get it, and they kept trying tons of other actresses for the role, finally giving it to Vivien Leigh! Gone With the Wind is an epic novel of great proportion, set in the dwindling Old South. A southern belle who doesn't believe in war or anything but her own affairs strives to control her passion for a married man while marrying three men for money. Her third marriage, to Rhett Butler, is complicated by their passionate, obsessive love for each other, which makes the book and the movie what they are. A classic, the book is also contemporary because many women today can find their own selves in the book. I feel an affinity for Scarlett. Hopefully, many other women are like the wonderfully kind Melanie Hamilton.
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Summary: a great book
Review: I first read this book, 2 years ago, in 6th grade and loved it. This is one of the best books I'v read, along with Little Women. I love reading books about the past. The caracters were very different from most books. They wern't perfect. I also loved how Scarlett could get any man she wanted ,and did, with the exception of Rhett. It had every thing a good book should have.
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Summary: Gone with the wind
Review: This is the best book I have ever read! When I first got it all my friends said it would take a year to read or it was probably boring. But it isn't it's the best book there is and once you start reading it you have to keep on reading. The thing that gets really annoying is that they say that it is boring after reading the first page but it really is the best book you will read.
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Summary: Scarlett could charm men into doing just about anything.
Review: This novel is a great piece of historical fiction, and it's not just for women, either. Set in the American Civil War, the story is about the life of a Georgian Southern Belle who is abruptly thrust from her pampered plantation life into the harsh realities of a very brutal war. Only her courage, strength, and resourcefulness get her through the wartime travails. That, however, is only the beginning of her struggles. After the war Scarlett faces the challenges of poverty, loneliness and death. She ends up being married three times (and burying two of her husbands), owning her own businesses, killing a soldier (and stealing the money and goods in his pockets), and generally doing everything considered unladylike at the time. Fictional characters set in an historic time, this book is a classic in every sense of the word. I've read it countless times (I still get something new out of it each time) and it should be in every well-read persons library. The movie of the same name follows the story closely (although some things had to be left out in the interest of time), stars Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, and is widely regarded as one of the best films ever made.
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Summary: Gone With The Wind
Review: This has to be the best book ever written. You abosolutly will love this book. While Scarlette acts like one you would detest, you can't help but love her and all the other characters. If you've only seen the movie, you are in for a huge suprise. Lets just say Bonnie is not the only baby.
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Summary: Gone With the Wind...
Review: Set in the Civil War era in Georgia, Margaret Mitchell's runaway classic Gone With the Wind is the spellbinding historical fiction of the world's best-known southern belle Scarlett O'Hara and the infamous Rhett Butler. The book was later made into one of the most successful films in history, starring Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable as the love-to-hate main characters. Normally, one would despise a person so spoiled and selfish as Scarlett, but Margaret Mitchell writes the emerald-eyed belle and the other characters in the book as multi-faceted, understandable characters, all with surprisingly human emotions and interactions. Through all of her struggles in the course of the novel, Scarlett stays strong, and in the end her will survives and she concludes a strong woman hopeful of what tomorrow will bring. Gone With the Wind is magnificent in its entirety, so complete with accurate historical facts and an unpredictable plot. The narrator follows Scarlett through years of her life, pre-, neo- and post- civil war, building at a quick pace. Scarlett rises again after the deaths of many close to her, after her failed marriage to Rhett, after going home to her beloved plantation of Tara during Reconstruction to find everything gone, and after her unrequited love for Ashley. The book closes with Scarlett pronouncing the famous words, "After all, tomorrow is another day!" Poignant and absolutely enchanting, Gone With the Wind is a book I would recommend to anyone. It cannot be guaranteed that you will enjoy it as I did, but from reading this novel you will gain insight about a true struggle and eventual survival.
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: This novel is a spactacular piece of work! At first the size of it scared me a bit, as it would most people my age, but boy am I glad I decided to read it! Scarlett is an amazing character, and the history is great. If you haven't read this classic, you are really missing out on something.
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Summary: I love it
Review: I've read this book over and over again, and every time I finish I'm convinced that I'm never going to get tired of it. The story, although goes on forever (which think is okay, since I like to read, but many people I know complain abouth the lenght of the book) is so engrossing, so minutely descriptive and fascinating, even people who don't care for this kind of work will have at least to recognize the painstaking job of researching and piecing together the facts about American Southern life in the years of the Civil War. And the characters are something else. My absolute favorite literary heroine is Scarlett O'Hara, even if she was so stupid sometimes she made me desperate, and Rhett... well, sometimes I almost felt sorry for him, for all his macho-man behavior. Almost. You can't really feel sorry for a guy like this. And I loved the ending too, it was just right for the story. Anyway, I highly recommend this book to anyone, it deserves its reputation as a great classic, and by the way, so does the movie, even if it's not quite like the book, but that's to be expected, I guess.
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Summary: Best Historic Novel Ever Written!
Review: Although I'm only 13, I have already read this compelling novel twice and am trying buy the book so I can read it even more! You feel like you are Scarlett's shadow, following all her movements and peeking into her mind and seeing her reasoning for her actions. My fave book!!
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