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Summary: They don't need smiley faces on them because they're fake
Review: Oh, crackle. The times are too and the heat is. This takes 100 pages for ANYTHING to happen. That's genius. I'd a never have the guts to do that until now. Know me and use me. I'm made of torhudidite an' if ya got a problem with it, wear protection you wussle. I see the picture and they kick. I see the ad on an ad and the dolphin lost a friend. Take that.
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Summary: wonderful
Review: This is the best book I have ever read in my entire life. It was excellent, nothing like I thought it would be. Very, very good.
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Summary: This is how I came to love the South!
Review: Scarlett is a complex woman...full of so many emotions that there is some of all of us in her. This book sets the plight of the Old South in an interesting fictional story...educating you without the feel of a textbook. You understand why the South tried like mad to hold onto its clearly outdated values and traditions. The struggle of the South becomes Scarlett's struggle with herself and the changing world around her. Then when you add Rhett Butler into the mix, off go the fireworks! This is truly a book that you have to read to appreciate. I don't enjoy romance novels or fiction that is too fluffy and this book has sometimes had those reputations. Not so...this book will grab you and never let you go.
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Summary: This is the most moving, emotional novel I have ever read!
Review: This book is another world that I lose myself in while reading it. I get so involved with the story and plot that when Scarlett is dismal, I am dismal. When Scarlett is defiant, I am defiant. This book never fails to move me. While some people see it as a racist pledge to the Confederacy, I see it as the key to how the South felt about the war, about the Reconstruction, about life...
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Summary: This Is a Great Book-- But It Is Not History
Review: Thinking of this book, it's hard to avoid a real feeling of sadness. Unfortunately, many people know NOTHING about post- Civil War Reconstruction besides what they read in GWTW and saw in the 1939 movie. Everything from both sources that relates to the Reconstruction era is wrong-- and yes, I do mean EVERYTHING. America reached a peak of racial harmony in those years that in many ways it has yet to reattain. It was an era of honest, integrated government, integrated education, integrated workplaces, and so much more. Many, many white people, including Southerners and former Confederates, were able to lay their racism aside to an astonishing degree and attempt to rebuild a new South. It was a shining, extraordinary period of our nation's history. Too bad few people know anything accurate about it, and instead get totally incorrect information from sources like GWTW!
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Within the one thousand and twenty-four pages of this book, a reader is allowed to experience hardships, heartbreaks, shocking revalations, and most of all, an overwhelming emotionally-charged, intense book. This is one great book! Characters come alive, colors form before the eye of your imagination, shapes and sounds seem to ring in your ears, and undeniable passion sets fire to your heart. If you haven't read this experience of a lifetime, you are missing out on one of America's most treasured, true, and honest classics. (Those nights you will spend reading late into the hour and the tiredness of the next day are definatly worth it:)
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Summary: well-written but disappointing ending
Review: Gone With the Wind was captivating and enjoyable. When I was in the middle of this book, I was reccomending it to everyone I saw! Then I came to the ending. The ending was disappointing, sad, and flat. Who wants to be left hanging with a book this good? No one! I plan to read the sequel, Scarlett. I figure the story line can't get much worse than how it ended in Gone With the Wind. Read it once just for the experience. You probably won't want to read it again.
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Summary: My Favorite Romance Novel
Review: I thought that the novel was captivating for a romance novel and for how it sets the stage for the Civil War.Thus book is a true classic in every sense of the word
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Summary: A true romance
Review: It was a very descriptive book, the costumes, the characters, the scenery, all came to life. A true romance, and not excessive love-making on every page. Rhett and Scarlett were truely meant for each other, but she didn't know it. It's so true.
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Summary: Beautiful Epic Romance of the Old South
Review: This has to be the best book ever written. Scarlett, Rhett, Melanie, and Ashley were brought to life within those 1,024 pages. You felt there sorrows, joys, worries, and loves. I loved Rhett, he was such a character! Melanie is larger than life, and too good for Scarlett. As long as she had Ashley, she was unaffected by the war. Ashley was a gentleman in an era he did not belong in. He was simply an ornament not a laborer. Rhett was everything a character could be, (not to mention very dashing.) Scarlett is probably the only character that you love one chapter and hate the next. She had a very strong will to survive and a lot of selfishness. She was strong enough to survive the war, but she was not as strong as Melanie, (mentally.) My very favorite characters were the Tarleton twins, espically Brent. I do think Melanie was not very strong (physically) but she made up for it with her huge heart, you would have to have one to always stand up for Scarlett. My favorite part of the book is when Scarlett and Rhett are on their honeymoon. They were really, truly in love then. I would think Scarlett would love Rhett long before she did. He was so kind and loving to Bonnie. I think Rhett really did love her the whole time, and he really would not leave her. Why didn't Scarlett marry Stuart? The book would be very different, but Scarlett loved him. GREAT BOOK!
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