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Summary: Ok, but would have been better if written by...
Review: Scarlett is an ok book. It's good, but not great. I was kinda disappointed by the ending. It wasn't that great ending you thought that would come from the sequel to GWTW. I was frustrated that it took so long for Scarlett to get Rhett, and how many chances they missed. Jeez, they waisted 10 years! Like Rhett says at the end, to many missed signals and chances. But i guess, that's what makes you keep reading. It was different from the first book in the way that the Scarlett that you came to love for her spirit, changes, and is totally different and takes getting used to. I will say this. A sequel for GWTW should have been written by Margaret Mitchell. SHe was the only one who truly knew what it was all about. And if there was to be a movie, it should have been made when Gable and Leigh were still able to do the parts, but thats another story.

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Summary: It is truly discouraging...
Review: ...to read the reviews of those who gave this book 5 stars, and realize that so many people have such undiscriminating tastes as to be incapable of seeing the immense difference between GWTW and this drivel.

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Summary: Bad.... the worst book EVER READ IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!
Review: I think I bought this book the day it came out. I was so excited to go home and read it after I read the beautifully written Gone With the Wind. Even though Gone With the Wind was so long and it might've took an 8th grader nearly a week and half to read, I got happy reading the book. I was in the 9th grade I think and reading this book. I finished this boring book in nearly a month. I lost interest after the first chapter. Why would anyone want to butcher a classic book like this? Poor Margaret Mitchell. Scarlett is a trashy romance novel, considering Alexandra Ripley is a romance novelist. Why would she go to these lengths to make a classic this terrible with an ending so boring and so dull. Scarlett lost her character in this book and Ripley forgot to mention Scarlett's other children, Wade, Ella, and Bonnie. Although Bonnie's name was mentioned in the beginning. Poor Cat did not know her siblings. It was the most boring book I've ever read and please, if those of you that did not read Gone With the Wind and read this book, read Gone With the Wind. You will fall in love with the original characters. The movie is even worse with bad casting and just bad everything. This is the saddest sequel to a book that was read by nearly everyone in the world. Sad Sad~!

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Summary: A review that does Scarlett justice!
Review: Like most people I had just finished Gone With the Wind, and found out there was another book, a sequal, so i snatched it up, and devoured it. I started a little skeptical at first but it was magnificent, it filled up all the sadness left from the first book, and at some points it got a little slow, i just wanted to keep reading. It held true to Rhett's and Scarlett's attitudes before, and I just loved it, I just finished the 800+ page book today in like a week and a half, and am soo happy, and can't wait to see the movie! Enjoy!

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Summary: Save Your Time and Money
Review: I am embarrassed to admit that I actually finished this book, painful as it was. Two things stick out about this book: first, most of the book and dialogue is simply a re-write of GWTW; second, the parts that are original are the most ludicrous, simple-minded drivel that I have ever read. How can you screw up a book when you're writing from a classic original? Well, it's been done. Scarlett returning to Ireland and going from a drunken lush to "The O'Hara" a respected member of her clan? How about the almost instantaneous metamorphasis of Scarlett from shallow and selfish to caring, loving and intellectual? Or Rhett from the masculine character to the love-struck wimp? Or the birth of the changling baby? Is there always a witch in these dime-store romance novels? Don't bother with this one, it's a total waste of time.

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Summary: Don't even waste your time
Review: This book was one of the worst I have read. Extremly disapointing after Gone with the Wind. At first it's semi interesting, but as the book continues it just gets so awful you're about ready to burn the book. The ending's alright, so my copy was spared. The charactor's just don't seem to match up with that of Gone with the Wind. I really do not recommend reading this book, it only makes you mad and gives you a headache.

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Summary: From a true Windie...
Review: To read this book, you must first clear your head of any preconceived notions of Scarlett and Rhett from Gone With the Wind. Yes, this is a "continuation" of the greatest novel of all time, but a different author means a different perspective. We all had our own notions of what happened to Scarlett and Rhett after he left her sobbing on the stairs, and this is just one persons idea of how the story should end. Ms. Ripley is an excellent author, and one can tell that years and years of research on Ireland went into this novel. So, do not expect rolling plantations, fancy balls, and carriage rides, but do expect a powerful story of strength and courage mixed with the rumblings and explosions of an Irish Revolution. You cannot go into this book with doubt. Just remind yourself that this is how one person would end the story...not all of us.

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Summary: Still "Scarlett" and dear Rhett!
Review: I really enjoyed this book after I read Gone with the Wind. In my own 14-year-old way I liked it better than Gone With the Wind. It may sound odd that I liked it better for this but I liked it better because it spent less time elaborating on landscape and other irrelevant details. I like plot and it made the book easier and faster to read other than it's shorter. It's an excellent book. You're still in love with Rhett and Scarlett matures quite nicely. I, being that I hate sad endings, really needed the closer. Ripley a nice job.

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Summary: IT WAS SOOOO BAD
Review: I had just finished reading "Gone with the Wind" and I was absolutely in love with it. Then i read "Scarlett" and suddenly.... Before, Scarlett O'Hara had stood for the south and how much it meant to her. Suddenly, she goes off to Ireland and hates America! And Rhett, who left her because he lost all passion he had, comes back because she keeps drawing him in or something. Thats not what should happen. And her and Rhett have another kid! And Scarlett likes it for once! Plus, she gives up her corset and fancy dresses for black peasant clothes, gives up her home in Atlanta for a shack in Ireland. It was terrible. Everything Scarlett ever stood for in gone and the whole story is changed around into a bad romance that I secretly suspect thats how Alexandra Ripley meant it to be. It did not deserve to be the sequel to the greatest book ever written. it doesnt even deserve a spot in your supermarket checkout line.

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Summary: WORSE than a paper by a high school procrastinator!
Review: First of all, I wish to know why anyone would commission this author to write anything. THe author has made the effort to keep true to Margaret Mitchell's classic by quoting way too many times! In fact, the only reason why this book has so many pages is that she has quoted nearly all of GWTW. She never developed the characters. Scarlett is no longer the Scarlett that we all loved/a bit hated in GWTW. She has become feeble and turned into mush. I think the best part of GWTW was that Rhett was so hot and sexy. His kissing and his seducing make me melt. However, the Rhett in Alexandra Ripley's book certainly is NOT Rhett, but an awkward teen, very reminiscent of teen soap operas. A lot of the language used in the book is anachronistic and even the idioms are clearly the ones we use today, but very weird in Scarlett's time. However,I personally do not like this book becaseu it has ruined my fantasy of Rhett and Scarlett. READERS: THIS BOOK WILL SPOIL YOUR LOVELY EXPERIENCE WITH GWTW. But there are some parts that I like. Ripley does a good job in food writing. So if you're hungry, read this, because it is filled with good descriptions of food. But for everything else, it's simply and utterly awful.