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Summary: A beautifully riveting book which never fails to enthrall.
Review: How do you rate a work of art? By the amount of people who have fallen under its spell? Or by the amount of hours one spends reading it, and then reviewing it? Gone with the wind has already been rated a ten, and its flame has not diminished an iota. I am fifteen, and I have yet to read a book which portrays civil war, and love, as well as Margaret Mitchell does in Gone with the Wind. I am fifteen, and I have yet to love a heroine as much as I love Scarlett O' Hara. Melanie is good, but Scarlett is alive! Her spirit and unflagging determination awakens in all of us the right to survive. We all need reminders of the horrors of war, and of the fact that while mostly the men go off to war, it is the woman who has to stay home and somehow make do with only the bare essentials of life, and hope...........................
I recommend everyone to read this book, it is the best!
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Summary: Best book I've ever read besides the Bible.
Review: Gone with the Wind was the fisrt 'adult' book I'd ever read as a child .Took me awhile to get thru it but I'v read it many times since then. It was MY daughters first 'adult' book and has become her favorite also. I hope that my grandaughter also loves this book when she comes to be
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Summary: Scarlett and Rhett - unforgetable
Review: Margaret Michell's GONE WITH THE WIND is a tragic saga that can never be forgotten once read. Scarlett O'Hara is headstrong, intelligent, bold, and beautiful but she also makes mistakes. She is selfish and lives for the present. Rett Buttler is one man no woman can ever forget. He is the perfect father and lover whom is first consumed wholly with Scarlett and then driven away by her. Scarlett's frivolousness will be turned over and over in your mind. If you want to read a truely absorbing, romantic, historically accurate book let this one be your first choice
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Summary: The Classic of all times!
Review: This book is extraordinary! It is truly a brillant piece of literature. To any one who has never read this book, you need to read it. The movie is good, but the book is so much better!
Scarlett O'Hara is the epitome of a selfish, spoiled brat . . . but you just gotta love her
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Summary: The truest and most wonderful book that I have ever read.
Review: I cried when I finished this book. I honestly did. No, it was not the heart-breaking ending that brought me to tears, but the fact that there was no more Gone with the Wind. The book brought me so much into its depths, made me so much a part of its words, that at the end I felt almost as if a friend died. I just wish that Margaret Mitchell were alive so that I could talk to her, understand the mind that created such a masterpiece. I will never read a better book.
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Summary: Outstanding historical fiction
Review: This is a story about the life of a spoiled, selfish woman, Scarlett, going through the civil war period. It gives you an understanding of south's point of view. Several reviewers complained that it is racist. I would agree with those people but I don't like reading books that I agree with all the time. I found it valuable to try to understand what motivated the south to fight to preserve slavery. It seemed Mitchell was almost trying to defend slavery; if this offends and upsets you, then perhaps this may not be an enjoyable book for you.
The character development is outstanding in this book. I constantly found myself comparing the book's characters with people I know. I've read many Michener books, which are also long historical fictions. I enjoy his books a lot, but this was far better than any of his books due primarily to her excellent character development.
This book will stay with me forever.
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Summary: Love this Book
Review: GONE WITH THE WIND is one fantastic book!---------------------I'll never ever read a book this good again. This is without a doubt the best book I've ever read and ever will read. If you haven't read this book, you have to read it. It has everything: adventure, romance, historical fiction, survival, and excellent character development. It paints a vivid picture of life pre, during, and post Civil War. The characters are so well drawn you can predict how they will react to certain situations and what their responses will be. Every character is lovable, and every character feels real to you. Scarlett will stay with me for the rest of my life. Sly and rotten as she is, there are many sides to her; a loving side, a caring side, a brave and courageous side. Scarlett is my favorite character out of all of the books that I've read. Her romance with Rhett is complicated and passionate, and there were times when i wanted to hit Scarlett for treating Rhrett the way she did. Every character is memorable: Scarlett, her parents and sisters, Rhett, Melanie, Aunt Pitty, Ashley, Mamie, India, and Prissy. I LOVE THIS BOOK! If there were a 6 star rating thats what i would give this book. READ IT!!!! If you love Southern books, you'll also love----------------- McCrae's THE CHILDREN'S CORNER--fantastic short stories about love, loss, and life.
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Summary: Gone with the wind
Review: I love this book. I could read it over and over again. While it isn't very well written, it has the ability to take you there into the story and forget everything going on around you. It gives you a lot more detail then the movie, and makes you understand the characters more. You can really understand the motivation behind some of their actions.
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Summary: Put aside your PC predilections....
Review: Published in 1936, can any serious reader expect Gone With the Wind to mesh with 21st-century sensibilities? Of course not. Therefore, it may be wiser to open this book, put sensibilities aside, and let it rip because Gone With the Wind is simply a classic. Margaret Mitchell's Confederate sympathies hold little in the way of ambivalence. The dream-like plantation lifestyle, it's total devastation, and the abject humiliation of it's adherents under Reconstruction are starkly protrayed. Amidst the tragedy of civil war, Mitchell places a bevy of unforgettable characters whose inner strengths and weaknesses receive vivid definition - the interplay of which is truly sublime.
Gone With the Wind is ultimately a story of traumatic loss and dogged perserverence, overcoming disaster, peeling oneself off of the cold, hard floor. To be sure, there is wicked condescension, biased justifications, premises so one-sided they defy belief, but through it all Gone With the Wind stands with Tolstoy's War and Peace in it's ability to bring the social costs of war to the surface in a manner both eloquent and disturbing. This book should be read by all. 5+ stars.
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Summary: One of the best
Review: Gone With the Wind was a fantastic book. It's about this young woman, Scarlett O'Hara, who is living during the Civil War-in the south. Her rich and perfect life is ruined once the south loses the war and she is thrown into a time of starvation and misery. She becomes a widow and has to face those troubles as well.
Mitchell created the character, Scarlett, wonderfully. She had spunk, determination, intelligence, and selfishness-traits that made her personality interesting. She does what ever she needs to get her by. Then there's Rhett. He's this dashing man who is no gentleman. I have to say, he brought a little bit of light into the dark parts of the book. He seems to be just a rude, mischevious man at first, but later on, Mitchell makes his character more full, shall I say. His character is deep and full of emotion and feelings-I really can't describe it.
Then Margaret Mitchell created a bond and passion between these two characters. It was a wonderful romance, with love and anger-a sort of bittersweet romance. I felt I could connect with these characters.
I loved this novel; I couldn't put it down. I read it at a young age, 11 to be exact, but I was into it none the less. It kept me hooked for 7 weeks until I finally finished it. It's long-really long-but absolutely worth it. I loved it, loved it, loved it! This book tied together historical fiction and romance, my favorite types of books, into one novel. It is a book not to be forgotten-ever.
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