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Summary: Great, wonderfully written sequl to Gone With the Wind
Review: i think this was a wonderful book. I don't think Margaret Mitchell could have done a better job.
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Summary: Give it a chance...
Review: Living up to the class of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind would be a Phenominal task for anyone, and unfortunately this book didn't do it. However, I for one was craving for something extra at the end of GWTW... and this gave me that something - It's worth reading even if you don't agree with the portrayal of Scarlett or Rhett... and it's 100% better than the TV series made from it anyway. Just don't expect to be blown away like you were with GWTW.
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Summary: Give it a chance...
Review: For anyone to live up to the class of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind would be a Phenominal, and unfortunately this book didn't do it. However, I for one was craving for something extra after the end of GWTW... and this gave me that something - It's worth reading even if you don't agree with the portrayal of Scarlett or Rhett... and it's 100% better than the TV series made from it anyway. Just don't expect to be blown away like you were with GWTW.
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Summary: o.k. not as good as gone with the wind
Review: i thought that scarlett was not all that great. in one way it was good. i really don't think that a sequel should have been written. scarlett ended everything when she said I will think about it tommorrow, i can't think about it today. if i think about it now i will scream.
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Summary: No one could top GWTW!
Review: And Alexandra Ripley proves this point with a passion. She is the most amateur writer I could possibly think of; certainly not someone who should have even been in the running to write this novel. R.L. Stine could have done a better job. RIPLEY SUX!!!
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Summary: This is a good story, but not a good sequel to GWTW.
Review: I have mixed feelings about this book. It is a very good story, and well written, but does not do justice to a Gone with the Wind sequel. Ripley changes Scarlett into a completely different character. This new character does things that the original Scarlett would never do. Nevertheless, the story itself was interesting enough to keep reading, even if it is a very disapointing sequel to one of the best books ever written.
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Summary: I only gave it 1 star because 0 stars wasn't an option.
Review: Oh my!! This should have been illegal!!!! PLEASE do not waste your time or money. You will only be mad and disgusted at what this lady has done to the memory of Margaret Mitchell. It is pure garbage from beginning to end. It's a trashy novel, nothing more. Not even in the same universe as Gone With the Wind. I only wish I had been warned.
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Summary: this book was as follows in my view:
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Summary: Mammy had the right idea and got out early
Review: The first line of GWTW is "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but few realized it when caught by her charms as the Tarleton Twins were." Ripley takes away from the crazy, imperfect animal draw of Scarlett by characterizing her as this raven-haired, emerald eyed, big boobed, extraordinarily gorgeous seductress. The juxtaposition of the setting is extremely anti-Mitchell. Ripley obviously just didn't want to fool with post-Reconstruction Georgia so she just didn't. The same goes for Ashley Wilkes, Suellen and Will Benteen, and the rest. Damn straight she killed Mammy off, because Mammy would have never tolerated any of this. True, Ripley had total freedom to create whatever she wanted, but unfortunately Scarlett's character just doesn't translate. Take it or leave it, but Scarlett is a complex, strong, and famously flawed character. A rebirth of benevolence towards all without some selfish motive is simply not believable. It is simply not Scarlett.Mitchell's Scarlett would have laughed this one to Ireland. Ripley missed the point entirely with a characterization of this love-swooning siren in the place of Mitchell's tough, hardheaded womanchild.Scarlett would have never believed or even blinked an eye at any witchcraft mumbo-jumbo. Never! Come on, she's one of the most pragmatic characters in literary history. The sex is an embarrassment. Mitchell wrote as Scarlett would have thought and left it out for a reason. Aside from the cheesy sex with Rhett, Scarlett wouldn't have had sex out of wedlock. She just simply wouldn't have, except MAYBE with Ashley in GWTW but I doubt it would have progressed that far. Ripley completely ignores Victorian views by having the daughter of Ellen O'Hara have a sexual affair with a man she has not known that long. The Anne Hampton character is a bad recreation of Melanie (whose determined iron will hidden under kindess Ripley manages to mess up even in remembering the dead Melanie) and Cat is an even worse one of Bonnie. For 50 years America begged for a sequel. Ripley delivered. But in the words of Pork, an old favorite from GWTW, "Askin' ain't gettin.'" Let Conroy have it. He's a realist like Scarlett.
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Summary: It was far fetched and poorley written
Review: When I had finished "GWTW" I was utterly depressed, Margaret Mitchell had made me fall in love with her characters, so naively i picked up this book. The first couple chapters disapointed me with the death of Mammy, who seemed almost immortal to me. As things progressed the story became more unbelievable, Scarlett an alcoholic, traveling to Ireland to discover her roots, and that whole buisness of making love on a beachwith Rhett after a boat wreck just seemed wrong to me. Scarlett was a strong woman in the original but in this book she appears desperate and the ending is the most unbelievable part. I would rather die than read this book again!
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