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Summary: A must read for anybody!
Review: We have all read the unbearably dull classics in high school, which only makes us wonder why people love it so much. However, not only is this book interesting and not difficult to read, it is impossible to hate.This is the story of Scarlett,a young woman desperately in love with a man already married to another woman. Determined to win his heart, she goes through anything for even a blink of an eyelash from him. She is perhaps the best female protagonist ever. She shows a strength and aggressive attitude unheard of from women in that time period (civil war). Don't pass this novel up, and don't let the 1000+ pages turn you away. You'll never know what you missed.
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Summary: Go Sherman!
Review: I use to feel bad about Sherman burning Atlanta, but that was before I read this book. Though it is a very well written book it is very offensive to; African Americans, women and of course Yankees.
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Summary: Finest Novel Ever Written
Review: Or at least finest I've come across. Perfect in every respect. Demands to be read from cover to cover as quickly as possible. A finer contemporary drama you will not find.
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Summary: One of the Best books I have ever read
Review: I read it when I was 11 and I could hardly put it down, it took me 5 days to read this amazing book. Sure there is a dead spot in the middle and it gets a little depressing, but it is worth the read. I recommend this book to anyone who likes civil war romance.
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Summary: No Love Story?
Review: I am not sure how anyone can read the book and not see the love story. It may come near the end, but yes it is there. Gone With the Wind is one of the best books ever written. It incorporates action, romance, drama... I often find myself using silly facts that you learn from the book. Gone With the Wind gives the modern public a look at what life was like for a Southern plantation owner during the Civil War, and no book will ever challenge the status Gone with the Wind has achieved.
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Summary: great book. . . where's the love story?
Review: I loved this book. Very dramatic, great story. However, not having ever seen the movie or read the book, I was expecting a love story. Isn't it called the best love story of our time? They never fell in love! However disappointed, the book was great, well written, a great story. . . not a love story.
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Summary: A Masterpiece
Review: I read Gone with the Wind last summer and could not put it down...and then I read it again. I've read many great books in the classic genre, but none have been able to captivate me as Gone with the Wind has. Mitchell paints her characters so vivdly that as you read about their hardships during the Civil War and Reconstruction you just want to cry. Gone with the Wind is truly one of the best books ever written.
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Summary: The Book is Better than the Movie
Review: Let yourself get lost in Atlanta with the characters of Gone With the Wind. You'll yearn for a sequal. If you've seen the movie, you've really seen a different story that what you'll find in the book.
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Summary: GONE WITH THE.....BOOK!!!!!!!!
Review: This is by far the best book I have ever read!! I loved Ms. Mitchell's vivid descriptions and her enchanting characters. You just can't go wrong buying this book!!!
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Summary: Deeply offensive on almost every level
Review: First, the obvious. This book is racist to the core. And spare me the "it represents the views of white people of the time" refrain. This book represents the views of people who were extremists even then. The real Confederacy was tightly controlled by about 1,600 wealthy planters, who cared as little for the lives of the poor white southerners they used as cannon fodder as they did for the black slaves they overworked, whipped and raped. Most white southerners of the 1860s did not own slaves, but were conscripted and their small farms robbed to fight the war to defend the wealthy slaveowners. The book's withering contempt of "poor whites" and "Crackers" wasn't shared by the majority of white Southerners of the 1860s who WERE poor whites and Crackers. Slaves well treated. Upper-class aristocrats fighting in the field. Freed slaves going on a rape rampage. The Ku Klux Klan as a defender of helpless women. Lies, all lies passed down by the Southern aristocracy from one generation to the next, used to oppress the common person, both black and white. This books recycles these old myths, gives them energy, trying to pit poor whites against poor blacks, dividing ordinary folk to preserve the privileges of a select few. Equally offensive to a modern reader are the book's views on gender. Apparently most men are sheep who can be made to fall in love at a pretty girl's whim, then have their hearts broken like twigs. Intellectual, empathic, or caring qualities in men like Charles, Ashley, or Frank are given only contempt and disdain. What's admired is Rhett, who consorts with prostitutes, rapes his wife, and engages in food speculation while poor people go hungry. Oh but he's sooo dashing and handsome, sweeping little woman Scarlett off her feet. These characters could have come out of a Harlequin formula. Scarlett herself breaks men's hearts like dogs, has only contempt for intellect, gets wealthy by using convicts like slaves, emotionally abuses her children, and shows an utter, despicable shallowness of personality and emotion. Her only apparent regret at the end is she should have had MORE loyalty to the old planter class, MORE subservience to her husband etc. This book teaches only that women should be subservient to men, black people slaves of white people, and poor people under the thumb of the rich. It is reactionary in the deepest sense of the word and deserves to be forgotten as the extremist propaganda it is.
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