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Summary: the best of the best
Review: ...This great book.... I read it when I was 16 and since then I read it countless times. Every character and all the dialounge I love. Charles declaration of love to Scarlett is sooo cute. GranMa's Fontaine's remincing of the massacre of her family was perfectly done. Mammy's telling of Rhett going out of his mind after Bonnie's death. Scarlett promise to never going hungry again is a complete classic that every Southerner should learn and know by heart. Melanie's giving birth to Beau is so real. NO women that small and narrow should give birth and if she does she should thank God she lived after the birth. Scarlett's telling Melanie to scream and not to be brave sounded like my mother when Mother told my sister to yell all she wanted. My nephew weighed eleven pounds. There is so much I want to say here. I really will never understand the non-reading public. The stories here in this book are so beatiful. Even if the Story is old and long how can persn resist after the first page. Scarlett to me is a real person. So what if she is spoiled brat. At least she knows what she wants. But...her being in love with Ashley is beyond me. He is pathetic. Rhett. Wow!! What a man. Now that is a Man I would love to have for myself. Again I will never under Scarlett here. What was she thinking in letting a fine man like Rhett to get away mooning over a man like Ashley, then realizing too late that she never "really" loved him? WELL, I least I hope I know she had to have gotten him back. And, I'm not talking at all about that horrid book "SCARLETT" either. I don't need that book to continue the story for me. I like to think I can continue the story in my mind. After all tomorrow is another day.
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Summary: Fantastic book
Review: This book is absolutely fantastic. I am 14 years old and believe me at the beginnning I absolutely loathed my best friend when she tried to convince me to read this book. She was so persuasive that I finally relented.....and I dont regret it one bit. THis book was so captivating that I found it so hard to put it down. Margaret Mitchell has indeed done a fantastic job. Her descriptions are excellent and the conversations are well written indeed. This book is definitely a must read for all those who love Classical novels for it is unique and quite unbeatable.
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Summary: Love Story?
Review: It was amazing to me how much I could love a book with so few admirable characters. (One wonders if the film, "The War of the Roses" might not have been contrived from the story of Rhett and Scarlett.) But in all of her rage, Scarlett's stength and determination still makes her an attractive character, and after all of her shenanigans, you still want her to win. When assessing the characters, it is important to remember that they lived in a society where they played by different rules, often rules difficult for us to understand (e.g. rules regarding what constitutes adultery; and unbending rules of loyalty that might otherwise escape many of us). But all in all, beauty seems only to be found in Melanie and Mammy; a pitiful sympathy for Ashley and the other fallen "Old Guard"; and a most certain feeling that, indeed, Scarlett and Rhett, deserved each other, pain and all.
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Summary: The greatest story ever told
Review: I always thought "The Lord of the Rings" would forever hold the title.But "Gone with the Wind" may surpass it.As a damn yankee,I discovered I belong south of the Mason-Dixon line,where women are treated respectfully,parents are honored,loyalty to family and friends are boundless,and others postive traits exhibited,that are much too scarce today.Read this book and also find yourself wishing to protect and risk your life for Scarlett!
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Summary: The best novel!
Review: I grew up watching the movie version of Gone With the Wind, and I first read the novel when I was in 9th grade. If you only see the movie, you miss out on so much. This story literally has a little of everything in it. Don't let the length scare you away-it is such an amazing book, don't miss out on it!
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Summary: The Best Novel Ever!!!
Review: There are like 300+ reviews for this book, but I just had to write mine. GWTW is my favorite novel in the world! It's just got everything! Adventure, history, journey, learning, humor, romance... The author does a wonderful job at partraying the characters. You feel like you know them and can relate them to people you know. They have wonderful personalities. The book is very descriptive and fulfilling, but it leaves you wondering about things... Did Scarlett and Rhett ever get back together? Did Rhett have a child with Belle? What was the deal with Rhett's past, anyway? There is a sequel and I am ashamed to say that I read it. Terrible book... I don't count it as what really happened though. My favorite part about this book was the characters, but it was really educational, too. I could relate a lot of what I read to my Social Studies class. We happened to be doing our Civil War unit at the time I read it. A lot of people were bored with the war, but I was really interested. I found myself angry and squeezing my knuckles into fists when I read about Sherman's "march to the sea." I remembered how Scarlett and Rhett escaped from Atlanta. In sum, this is an awesome book!
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Summary: Selfish vs. Life
Review: Gone With the Wind is a great book about a young woman named Scarlett O'Hara who is selfish and cares only about herself as she struggles to keep herself alive during the Civil War. If you enjoy reading stories during the Civil War, this is the book for you.
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Summary: Something in Gone with the Wind
Review: This novel is acknowledged as one of, if not the best and most popular novels ever written. It deserves just that because of the universal appeal of its themes. The story starts with Scarlett O'Hara, a charming, determined but stubborn and proud Southern belle, trying to get the heart of Ashley Wilkes, who is to marry all-so-sweet and kind Melly, heartily hated by the leading lady. After over 1000 pages it ends with Scarlett realization that she really loves charming not such a gentleman Rhett Butler, who is also very proud and stubborn.In between the first and the last pages there are 12 years of Scarlett's life, from 16 to 28, Civil War, 3 marriages (the last of them is with Rhett Butler), 3 kids, wealth, poverty, and then wealth again, unseen love of Rhett Butler, death of all beloved, her maturity from a child into a woman, and finally the realization of the true priorities in her life. Unfortunately it is too late, they are all gone with the wind...
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Summary: woah.....a real page turner
Review: Gone with the wind is definately my favorite book of all time. Margaret Mitchell portrays Scarlett and Rhett and everyone else with such detail that i felt i was watching it all happen. Every joy, every sorrow.... It is absolutely impossible to put down!!! My suggestion: read it on a weekend with nothing planned, and keep a box of tissues nearby. (can't wait to read the sequel, Scarlett)
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Summary: Passes My Test Of Time Superbly
Review: I first read this novel set during the Civil War when I was 12 years old. Shortly after that I was able to see the film version in an old downtown theater during one of its periodic rereleases. I was enthralled by both the novel and film. Is there anyone out there who doesn't know the plot? For the 10 people in the world who don't know, it features Scarlet O'Hara, a Southern belle, living that role to the hilt on her family's Southern, slave-worked plantation, when all hell breaks loose with the Civil War. Admirable for her survivor qualities, Scarlet is also manipulative and ruthless but meets her match in Rhett Butler, a Southerner who manages to move profitably among both sides of the War while most of the South is starving. I reread this novel as an adult, expecting that with my many more years of reading since that first read, that I would find the book over the top and soap opera like. It didn't happen. I couldn't put it down and had every bit as fascinating a time reading it again as I did the first time. If you haven't given it a reread in many a year, try it yourself and you'll be very pleasantly surprised.
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