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Summary: Must read, over and over again
Review: This is a book that I believe everyone should absoluely read. From the first page to the very last you are entrolled into the deep south. The literate is beautiful as long as the glorious love story. I spent all my free time reading this book and was always thinking about Scarlet and what would happen next. This is the book that I would recommend to anyone, a lover of literature or not. When I finished the book and wiped the tears from my eyes, I was sad it was over. I wanted to go back and live in the time with Scarlet and never wanted it to end. Once is never enough with this masterpiece.
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Summary: GONE WITH THE WIND
Review: The thing i just love about this book is the fact that the novel is literally identical, to the film and that is no mean feat, at times it can grate slightly, but the book is so astoundingly written that you overcome that, she mitchell has that incredible deepness that only people from the deep south have when telling a story and no one else has the ability to convey.It has every thing war, when war was romantic,a dashing rogue of a hero, and of course the herione and was there ever a herione like scarlett o hara.One of the most important times in americas history and all this played in front of the backdrop of the deep south.in one word astounding.
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Summary: GWTW-an amazing book
Review: This book was really good-it seemed to come alive as I read it. The main character is really amazing-not a friendly person-but she does stuff every one else was too nervous to do. Even though she grumbled all the way. Read it- but skip Alexandra Ripley's Scarlett. I'm sure she did her best, and GWTW is not an easy book to follow up, but it is nowhere NEAR this book.
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Summary: Read It!
Review: This Book was elegeantly written.Itwas also throughly researched. Giving vivid details and a compelling love story. This is always going to be a american icon. if you were questioning whether or not to read the book read it and you will be undoubtfully satisfied
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Summary: The BEST
Review: I've read GWTW many times -once you get going you can't stop! I once gave a copy to a friend to read -she said it was 'too old fashioned' oh well her loss. I'm glad I'm in the company of true 'Windies' so I thought I'd share with you some interesting facts about the book: -Scarlett was originally named Pansy-Scarlett was partly based on Mitchell herself and her grandmother -Rhett was based on Mitchell's first husband Red Upshaw -the initials JRM in her dedication refer to her second husband John Reginald Marsh -Margaret Mitchell maintained the only character taken from real life was Prissy the maid -When asked who she'd like to be in the movie version, Mitchell said 'Prissy' -Like a detective novelist, Mitchell wrote the last chapter first and the first chapter last -GWTW is the only book to sell more copies than the bible -Mitchell nearly went blind just proofreading the manuscript! -Mitchell scrupously researched every detail for GWTW, even going to the town register to ensure there was no Rhett Butler or Scarlett O'Hara alive during the Civil War -The novel took ten years to complete, most of it was written in three -For style, she endeavoured to make her prose so that a five-year old could read it -If she were ever to write a sequel, it would be called 'Back With the Breeze' On that note,please avoid the Ripley penned sequel 'Scarlett', it is atrocious. -Gone with the Wind is my favourite book of all time, and yours too, I hope. Enjoy!
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Summary: Gone with the Wind
Review: Gone with the Wind is by far one of the best written books of our century. It takes us back through time, to a civilazation long since forgotten. To a time when all was well in the Old South, where beauty ran wild amidst the red clay of Georgia. From the outbreak of the Civil War in the view point of Georgian belle Scarlett O'Hara, to the end and beyond we become engrossed to the point where it is impossible to put the book down. The story follows the life of Scarlett O'Hara daughter of a wild Irishman and an aristocratic but kind French lady. We follow Scarlett through her weddings and her childbirths, through her long trip home to her beloved Tara. We experiance her rejection and her revilation that the land is the only thing that really lasts and the only thing worth fighting for. Through her pain and her misery, through her laughter, and her tears we laugh with her and cry with her. We feel the hardships of war and the fury of the aftermath, and we watch, as does Scarlett and the rest of the all star cast, the destruction of a civilazation that is truly Gone with the Wind. For everyone who loves the Old South, for anyone who loves a good book. Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind truly touches her readers, and makes one unforgettable novel.
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Summary: TRULY A CLASSIC!
Review: This book took my breath away ... Margaret Mitchell has painted such an unforgettable character in Scarlett 'O'Hara that even after finishing the book ,u can't decide whether to despise her / admire her ... not once in the book ,does Scarlett think an unselfish thought -her motives are always totally selfish -either for herself / for Tara -her childhood home [ which in effect is because she loves it passioantely!} --- the way she twists men around her little finger even the worldly wise & cynical Rhett Butler in the end --- the slow & inevitable change from the coquettish & beautiful 16 year old Southern Belle to the hard as nails & embittered yet still beautiful woman --- her relationship with her angel-like sister-in-law whom she loves to hate but yet ultimately fails to --- her wild passion for Ashley that destroys her judgement where men are concerned & nearly destroys her ---which when the mask finally falls is revealed as mere lust on his part & infatuation on her part --- her unrecognised till its too late love for the charming yet crude Rhett --- Only Scarlett's self- absorption remains constant...! Margaret portrays all this so beautifully & so vividly that u completely lose yourselves in the 'O 'Hara family & their trials in the war ... & Scarlett --- the girl with the world at her feet who goes through life refusing to be true to anyone but herself & the woman she becomes so hardened by disillusionment & poverty that she starts forgetting the feminine ways essential for a true lady in those times ... she lingers in your mind long after ...& U can never really decide whether she got what she deserved/ deserved what she got... As a hugely popular classic ,it definitely lives up to its fame ...Certainly worth a read!
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Summary: get swept away
Review: I have never had the concentration to sit through the movie all in one go - but I found the book, all 1000+ pages of it, compelling. Other reviewers have commented on the amount of detail put into this book, which makes it all the more real. And we are forced to sympathise and feel for characters that behave in what those of us living in the year 2000 would regard as most sexist and racist behaviour. It really gives you some understanding of how people lived and regarded each other at that time, and the different class and race structures which existed, with interesting insights into the interactions between the people who owned plantations and the slaves who worked on them. And of course, we have the character of Scarlett to contend with - one of the most spoiled and most motivated heroines ever described. I wished so much for her to open her eyes and see what a waste of time Ashley was, and how much Rhett loved her, but she is too immature to realise all this. I am debating whether I should read 'Scarlett', the recently written sequel, or just imagine her living her life out with Suellen and Will, her children and her money. A sign of a great book is the way it stays with you long after you've read it, and I often find myself rethinking passages from this book. I would recommend it for anyone.
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Summary: They just don't make 'em like they used to ;=)...
Review: What can I say that hasn't already beign said? I think this is the most entertaining book of all time, not to mention historically accurate...I read it for the first time when I was 16 and in high school, and to my surprise, when we studied the Civil War a few months later in school, I already knew most of the battles, generals and dates! LOL :=)...this book is a gem. One more thing...though I think the movie is an absolute masterpiece and a must-see, I nevertheless think it doesn't do the book justice. It ommits too much. The movie doesn't show us Gerald's story and how he ran away from County Meath, Ireland straight into Georgia, Ellen's heartbreak when Phillippe Robillard was murdered and her resolve to run away frome her memories; but mainly, and what truly makes me sad...the movie doesn't develop the myriad other characters. What I mean is, it focuses on Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley and Melanie. However, the novel tells us of India and Honey Wilkes, Cade and Cathleen Calvert, Tony and Alex Fontaine, Sally and Dimity Munroe, the four Tarleton girls...you get to know so many stories...and since I truly loved all these characters, I missed them in the movie. Of course, there would have never beign enough time in a movie to cover all this...but, perhaps a miniseries could :=). P.S. By the way, in the novel, Brent and Stuart Tarleton were two very cool, masculine guys, as opposed to the dancing idiots we are shown in the beginning of the movie ;=) !
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Summary: Everyone HAS to Love It!
Review: This is not the kind of book you don't like if you can get through it. It's long but the last hundred pages or so makes it all worth it. Scarlett O'Hara is the most agrivating, stuck-up, rude, unlady-ish lady in the south. But none of her beaux see it. How can they when she has such charm? But Rhett sees it and likes it which is foolish because eventually it will destroy him. How can anyone stand their love's desire to be with someone you have not even respect for thrown in your face constantly? Melanie saw it too though see didn't believe it. And Ashley...Ashley has no idea what he's doing. After the war he no longer lived in the world he was meant to live in. He's also stuck between his love for his sweet beyond words wife and his lust for the body and charms of Scarlett. Scarlett loves Ashley and Ashley wants Scarlett but his honor keeps him from taking her. But at the same time his honor isn't strong enough to keep him from wanting her and making it obvious enough for Scarlett and even poor Rhett to pick up on. So Scarlett's hope keeps her going. And Rhett's hope for Scarlett's love keeps him going until the world crashes and they both have barely enough strength to pick up the mess and move on... but to find out which way they move on to you have to read the book.
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