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Summary: This is and always will be my all-time favorite novel!
Review: I first read GWTW, when I was just a kid and fell in love with it from the first line. No other book has come close to how I feel about this novel (save for Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion and Rebecca all running close seconds!)If you have only seen the movie version of this book, please do yourself a huge favor and read the book. It is amazing! Scarlett has so much more depth as a person than the way she is portrayed in the movie (Vivien Leigh was a perfect Scarlett don't get me wrong) You will come to understand her motives completely if you just read the Book! Apparently I cannot stress this enough. This is just the best book ever written!
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Summary: I was disappointed
Review: I was a little disappointed with this hyped-up book. Melly was all good and Scarlett all bad. This plot is good, but I think Margaret Mitchell did not develop the characters as much as she could have. Humans are not either good or bad, everyone has a bit of both in them. However, I could not put it down, and it is such an epic story of American history that I would recommend it, just don't expect it to be as great as it is said to be.
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Summary: great
Review: Ok, here's the deal. This book was great. I mean GREAT! I read it in 6th grade. The whole thing was so, so, so wonderful! I luved every bit of it, Except for.....the end. I hated the end! Why did she just leave us hanging? I mean Tomorrow everything will be alright? What kind of ending is that? So I had to get Scarlett. I luved Scarlett too. And I was glad that there was actually an ending, but the ending was kind of boring.
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Summary: Captivating
Review: This book was beautifully written, and had just the right amount of romance, action, drama, and loneliness that it became a captivating novel. I could not put this one down. It is unforgetable.
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Summary: The best book ever. Period.
Review: My title says it all. I have read this book 27 total in 2 years. It is truly the best book ever written.
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Summary: Nothing will ever compare.
Review: This is my favorite book of all time. Everyone should find time to read it. I realize it is 1024 pages of very small print and also that there are sixty-three chapters; however it is amazing. I realize too that it is in some cases a bit racist and there are people who are offended by that; to them, I privately say, "Grow up". Gone With the Wind is not about slavery. It is not about white supremacy. It is not even really about the South. It is about how war destroys people. You could take it and apply it to any war. I am by no means a white supremist, but those feelings need to be pushed aside while one enjoys such a wonderful book. I do not agree with Scarlett, or Melanie, or Ashley, or Rhett completely, but I can't help but tear up as I watch their world disappear again and again. It is a million times better than a history book to understand the causes of bigotry in the South after the war. As for Scarlett, she is infuriating, bullheaded, selfish, and childish, but I cannot help loving her anyway. Perhaps my favorite lines, though, come from Ashley, lost soul though he is:"It's a curse--this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy...It isn't that I mind splitting logs here in the mud, but I do mind what it stands for. I do mind, very much, the loss of the beauty of the old life I loved. Scarlett, before the war, life was beautiful. There was a glamor to it, a perfection and a completeness and a symmetry to it like Grecian art. Maybe it wasn't so to everyone. I know that now. But to me, living at Twelve Oaks, there was a real beauty to living. I belonged in that life. I was a part of it. And now it is gone and I am out of place in this new life, and I am afraid. Now, I know that in the old days it was a shadow show I watched. I avoided everything which was not shadowy, people and situations which were too real, too vital. I resented their intrusion. I tried to avoid you too, Scarlett. You were too full of living and too real and I was cowardly enough to prefer shadows and dreams." Everytime Ashley says what he truly thinks, it makes me cry. I never cry about anything, but I cry over Gone With the Wind. It's not that I want to be a part of that world, the pre-Civil War South, because I don't...it's just that Margaret Mitchell's words are magic, creating characters so real that I can't help but long for them to have what they want.
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Summary: An American Masterpiece
Review: Many people only know Gone With The Wind through the beautiful 1939 David O. Selznick film. That is a disappointment, as the novel is so much richer and complex than the film could realize. Written in the mid 1930s by a novice writer, it nonethe less manages to evoke the spirit of the Civil War and the passion that is Scarlett O'Hara. While commonly viewed as a war novel, it is actually much more: both a brilliant comedy of manners and the first frankly feminist novel written. Ms. Mitchell manages to make us care about Scarlett, while allowing us also to laugh at her occasionally. Do not be put off by the book's length. While an enormous undertaking, it moves along at a breakneck pace, and is absorbing from the very first page. Some have criticized the book for its racist portrayal of the black characters. While it does seem so from a 21st Century perspective, that can perhaps be forgiven when remembering that it was written by a Southerner in the early 20th Century. In any event, some of the most noble, sympathetic characters of the book are black and slaves. This is a book to enjoy and savor more than once. The 60th Anniversary Edition is especially nice, coming in a slipcover and containing analysis of the book by other authors and literary critics.
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Summary: Never get enough~
Review: ¡§Gone with the Wind¡¨ is my all-time favorite novel. I¡¦m so obsessed with the book that I think about it every day, in spite that I¡¦ve read it for like a hundred times. I cannot tell why I cannot get enough of the book. I¡¦ve been trying to tell myself that it¡¦s just a book of 1000 pages, telling the story of a belle¡¦s maturity and struggles for living, yet I just can¡¦t cut off my bond with it. Due to the colorful plot and intriguing dialogues, my opinion about it changes with time. As I first read it during junior high, I viewed it as a moving love story. Oddly, there was a time that I really hated the novel because it inevitably posed discrimination on African Americans. Nevertheless, my love for it was resurrected on my way of learning to grow up, for I highly respect the female main character, Scarlett O¡¦hara¡¦s courage and passion for living. Above all, I can always get something from reading the book. With its vivid description, I can picture a broad land, a luxurious house, people¡¦s looks in my mind. Though the novel is already pretty lengthy, still some parts were unsaid, leaving to readers¡¦ imagination. I guess that¡¦s one of the reasons that make the book so catchy and unforgettable. With its classic movie version, it¡¦s amazing that my thoughts about it remain unaffected. The book is generally true to its historic background, and since the author depicts female mind profoundly, I can easily comprehend the idea she tried to convey or the metaphors. When Scarlett is happy or heart-broken, it seems like I¡¦m just there on the scene, feeling the trouble or pleasure she is confronted with. And it¡¦s one of the few books that make women respectable and independent, causing me to identify with it even more. I won¡¦t deny the fact that I¡¦m an incurable fan of the novel. It enriches my life and somehow glorifies my imagination. I will follow the strong determination the book suggests: ¡§Never ever give up!¡¨
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Summary: Gone with the Wind
Review: Gone with the Wind is an excellent book. I read it the first time when i was 14 and i have read it every year at least once since then. I would recommend it to anyone who has the time to read this lengthy book. It keeps you waiting for more about Scarlett O'Hara and her life during the Civil War and her romance with the honorable Ashley Wilkes and the reckless, scalawag Rhett Butler. If you do read this book and love it like i do i would HIGHLY recommend the sequel "Scarlettl; the sequel to Gone with the Wind" by Alexandra Ripley
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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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