Lo que el viento se llevó, vuelve con scarlett

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Summary: Dare I say this?... BETTER than Mitchell's orignal GWTW....
Review: Ripley is true to Margret Mitchell's style, but unlike Gone With the Wind, the pace of Scarlett never flags! Written with supreme control and beauty, Scarlett is the ideal sequel to an ageless classic. An excellent read.

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Summary: Warning: Do not read this book
Review: This book was sooooo obviously never supposed to be written. That is not to say that Alexandra Ripley did not do her homework, but she made the sequal to Gone With The Wind into a trashy romance novel.

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Summary: excellent
Review: I didn't think it would be good, cause Gone With the Wind was so great, but i really liked it.

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Summary: This is the ending you have been waiting for!
Review: When Scarlett uttered her famous line "tomorrow is another day," she wasn't kidding. She's back and better than ever in the book Scarlett. Scarlett starts off right where Gone with the Wind stopped. Scarlett continues to lust for her lost love, and she sets new and shocking goals for herself as she tries to win him back. She continuses to be the no-nonscence, down-to-earth heroine we met and fell in love with in Gone with the Wind. The ending of Scarlett is truely unforgetable, and ranks Scarlett among the top stories of all time. For those who don't really enjoy reading, I suggest the movie Scarlett (I have a review there as well).

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Summary: A Worthwhile Read
Review: I absolutely loved Gone With the Wind, but the ending left me hanging and disappointed. I was glad that there was a sequel to continue the story. I liked Margaret Mitchell's writing style better, and I think that GWTW is much better than Scarlett, but I still think the sequel is worth reading. Even though it breaks from the ideals of GWTW, at least it gives a better ending to the story of Scarlett and Rhett. If you're expecting a book that's as wonderfully written and captivating as GWTW, don't bother reading Scarlett. But if you're looking for a continuation of the story and an interesting aftermath to Rhett's abandonment of Scarlett, then I recommend you read it.

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Summary: one of my favorite books
Review: I personally think that this book was good,Although GWTW is my favorite book/movie i enjoyed this book because of the ending, i was left angry at the ending of GWTW because i wanted Rhett to forgive Scarlett so bad, because i knew she really did love him after all. The ending of the sequel he comes for her and i take it they live happily ever after, i like ending's like that i don't like not knowing what happens next! And about that person whinning about the book cause of racial issues needs to get over it, I don't remember reading it anywhere that said blacks were dangerous blacks were this and that. I think your just whinning about it and need to look past race. I read books that african americans are the lead characters and what the characters think of white people and i don't get all mad about it and despise the book. I could care less!

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Summary: Some Thoughts About the GWTW Phenomenon
Review: Simply as a novel, "Scarlett" was really no better or worse than average. However, it's obvious that it is judged entirely in light of the original, which was not so much a book as an American icon. On the positive side, GWTW portrayed a powerful, unconventional, independent woman (can you really imagine that character in a book published 20 years later? I doubt it.) But it also feeds and fuels revisionist history, a Southern white version of the war and its aftermath that has little indeed to do with documented reality. In that respect, "Scarlett" is to be commended for simply getting its lead character out of the post-reconstruction South. (But not before deploring the way Union troops stayed in Charleston longer than nearly anywhere else. If the novel had continued until 1898, though, do you really think they would have mentioned the Wilmington massacre of black residents? Ripley thought it was cute to put words in her characters' mouths about how they all had to lock up on the anniversary of Emancipation Day, after all! ) To tell the truth, both this book and GWTW tell the story of one group of marginalized people (white Southern women) and obviously this resonated with a lot of us. But imagine how you'd feel about these books if you were black. Imagine reading your people described as subhuman, childlike, dangerous, unable to think for themselves... (all direct quotes from both books! ) If you want the real story of the South, read Charles Chestnutt, Leon Litwack, Zora Neale Hurston. Maybe some can, in the words of Flannery O'Connor, "take what they need and leave the rest rot." But there are other books to read besides these that do not so gratuitously villify large groups of people.

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Summary: An extroardinary book!
Review: A friend of mine gave me Scarlett a few years ago and said that i would enjoy reading it. I had never read GWTW before, and i had seen the movie so long ago that i couldnt really remember what it was about. i had no expectations when i first picked Scarlett up, i was just looking for a good book. what i found was a book beyond comparison. there are no words that can adequately describe Scarlett, you just have to read it yourself. I promise that you wont be disappointed. I dont understand why there were so many bad reviews about it. the only explanation i can give is that the people who gave bad reviews are not true romantics. I've read this book at least 5 times and it gets better every time!

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Summary: Terrible sequel
Review: This book was such a disappointment when I read it. The story did not hold true to anything Margaret Mitchell wrote in Gone With The Wind. The ending of Gone was meant to be left to the reader's imagination-for your own sake, leave it that way.

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Summary: I didn't enjoy it at all! Terrible.
Review: I read Scarlett before I read Gone With The Wind. I wasn't living in America at the time, and could only get ahold of Scarlett. It was not interesting. Sure, it was okay, but the characters seemed flat somehow, and the story was boring. I did read it to the end.. and the only character I liked was Cat. A few years later I had the chance to buy Gone With the Wind. Doubting that it would live up to all the raves, I opened it up. It was wonderful. Is that the Scarlett I read about in the sequel? No. And the ending - maybe not so satisfying to everyone - and I don't really like endings that leave me guessing - but it was Margaret Mitchell's book, she chose to end it that way. And she probably did have her own ideas about what happened.. and I doubt she'd be happy with the sequel.