Lo que el viento se llevó, vuelve con scarlett

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Summary: WHAT IS THE DEAL W/ THIS BOOK?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!!?!??!!?!
Review: I cannot even believe the publisher would try and pass this off as scarlett!?!?!?!? it is all summed up in one line, "i am an irish lass w/ a free swinging skirt and a secret red petticoat" WHO WAS THAT?????? that certainly wasn't scarlettt!!!!!!!!!!! what about TARA?!?!?!?!?! scarlett will always LOVE tara. to give up, NO. rhett in love w/ ann hampton? what about scarlett's daring, her fire, her drive.her lust for life? an acholoic i think not!!!!!!!! and don't think ripley just sucks w/ this book no, it extends to her other works as well. i just don't known this.........

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Summary: A waste of 884 pages worth of trees
Review: Why did someone have to ruin a great classic like that? Scatlett is now a totally different character who has lost her spirit and devotion to Tara. SCARLETT a trashy love story with should not even be associated with the classic GONE WITH THE WIND.

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Summary: Who is this new boring pathetic Scarlett?
Review: Ms. Ripley's attempt at writing a sequel to GWTW is a very sad try indeed. Has the woman even read the orginal book? Where is her sense of daring, boldness, and excitement? Her Scarlett is truly a washed-up copy of the orginal, some little-girl, sad cry-baby,if even that! She is not daring, nor bold, nor independant as we know the real Scarlett, but frankly she is quite annoying! Don't bother with this book. You'll only end up vastly dissapointed, for the characters you loved in GWTW, I am afraid you won't find them in here!

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Summary: "Scarlett" I belive is not nearly as good as GWTW.
Review: But for any one who can't belive there is a happy ending unless they read it and if a happy ending is what you are looking for I would suggest reading this book. But if you are happy with your own theory of what might have happened next don't read it because you won't like it.

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Summary: Definately not GWTW
Review: Ripley tried but it ended up a flop. People often begged Margaret Mitchell to write a sequel to GWTW. But she refused. Do you think there was a reason behind that maybe. One of the best things about GWTW is that MM left the book to your imagination. You got to decide what happened. I was appalled at the statement that Tara no longer felt like home. What was Ripley thinking. Tara was Scarlett's strength. She loved it with all of her heart. How can it change all of a sudden. If you loved GWTW don't read this book. It will ruin the magic of the classic.

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Summary: IT SUCKED
Review: I was sooo very disappointed with this book!! I read it, unfortunately for me, before I ever read GWTW. The portrayals of Scarlett are of two different peoplE! In GWTW, she is a young woman who will do anything for Tara, including marrying herself to men she didn't love so she could have the money to pay the taxes on it!! She loved Tara more than life itself. Scarlett never would have gone far from Tara, only far enough to go back and gain energy and life from the soil. To pull her from that lifesource is cruel and totally opposite of what Margaret Mitchell had intended for the reader to understand. Gone with the Wind was NOT a trashy romance novel. It is so much more than that! So much more than words can describe, it is a feeling, an emotional and psychological rollercoaster and more. It is about an aclcoholic trying to cope with loss, a triumphant woman trying to live in a world that she does not belong in, and it is about the true love that not only Rhett felt for her, but about the love that Melly had for her, and Scarlett not realizing that she also loved them more than anything until it was too late. SCARLETT, the novel, only portrays Scarlett as business woman that moves to Ireland, finds out she's pregnant with Rhetts child and does everything in her power to win him back. Ok, so where's the magic? oh, yeah...Ripley turns her into a recovering Alcoholic. HULLO, this is 1870's ! not 1990'S!

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Summary: It sucked!!
Review: This is the most god-awful book I have ever read. Margaret Mitchell is spinning in her grave right now!!! Don't read it, for the love of god, don't read it! Let's all pretend it was never written and we can all get back to normal!

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Summary: Margaret Mitchell's masterpiece made a joke
Review: In this mixed, muddled text Scarlett becomes truly pathetic. The original strong spitfire becomes a crybaby who gets mad at Rhett's jeers as they come, literally every page he appears. Created instead is a harlequin romance, which is bad to top it.And why in God's name does he marry the Melanie clone? He said to Scarlett he had to have her that day at twelve oaks. He may be tired out from Scarlett but by no means would he go crawling to a woman without a will or whim to help her. And what on earth happened to her connving ways. None of her decisions are intelligent anymore. The Scarlett we saw in GWTW was so strong she shot a Yankee, drove through two armies, delivered a baby without a notion how and picked cotton like a work horse and ran a store against all complaints against her unwomanly profession. She has been transformed into some sort of lovesick puppy, who follows Rhett without fail. She followed Asley but she drew the fine line between business and love. Giving up Tara is something she would never do. Scarlett O'Hara is always doing multiple things at once. She doesn't love anyone more than herself or Tara and that---is something the author of this pathetic sequel didn't realize. Scarlett O'Hara doesn't stay down for long and when she does she's always thinking about a way to get herself up again. The author is always putting minor details, like the dresses Scarlett wears or stupid things they discuss in the tea parlor with Rhett's mother. The affrontation between Scarlett and Ross Butler is ridiculous. Her reaction is the opposite of the norm. When Scarlett feels pain, she will say "Tomorrow is another day." And immeadiately think of something else. Only sometimes does she give up and it is in effect a sad site to see. With Ross her temper doesn't make it's right show. And oh yes, my favorite detail. Isn't Rhett the one with the terrible reputation, so bad, his parents will not even see him? Did this suddenly evaporate? Maragaret Mitchell left no grounds for a sequel! SO many broken links left un-mended. But I will say I gave that 1 star for effort. I think the author tried and did a better sequel than most could have done (ugh--see the movie and you'll know what I mean...) but since it IS a sequel, and WAS made to be compared to the first one than I must harshly criticize as I have. Gone with the wind soars of the scale. It is a book with no faults. The war is discussed, very little to keep the attention of the reader, the plot is prominent and psychological as well as thrilling and romantic in a way. While the sequel---has one plot---GET RHETT. You can't really write about the aftermath of a WAR as well as a broken romance. They're both dull subjects and unfortunately the author used every trick to spice it up, but that's basically what made it worse than it could have been.

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Summary: not bad, but terribly faulty
Review: The story isnt bad, if considered seperately, but as a sequel to am great book such as GWTW, it is terribly faulty. Margaret Mithchells characters are a way of expressing her loyalty tomold times and he book is written with such deep fellngs that it literally transports the reader into the past. the reader feels at one with the characters and can feel Scarletts pain and loss when Rhett climbs the stairs at the end of the story. The books beauty is in the unhappy, unfinished ending. It keeps the reader wondering how Scarlett will get Rhett back and forces him to think of a million possibilities "Scarlett" on the other hand is totally different. The book is good until just before Scarlett leaves Charleston, after that the characters have been greatly exagerated. Rhetts cynical comments in GWTW make the reader laugh. in Scarlett, he is nothing but a hard, biter perfectionist. Scarletts character is worse. Margaret Mitchell wrote about a beautiful, brave intelligent girl, while Ripley portrays a trashy buisinesswoman, whose life story might have been set in 1990 nstead of the 1870;s!!! Ripleys first mistake was uprooting Scarlett from Tara. Her comment "I dont even feel at home at Tara anymore" is totaly wrong, as Tara was Scarletts life, her source of strength, as Mitchell wrote "She could not desert Tara, she belonged to the red acres far more than they could ever belong to her. her roots went deep into the blood-coloured soil and sucked up life, as did the cotton" Ripley did try to portray her characters with justice, but she slighted many of the orignal ones in the process, mainly Ellen, by changing Scarletts opinion of her. Ellen was perfect in Scarletts eyes, to the extent that "when she was a child, she had confused her mother with the Virgin Mary, now that she was older, she could see no reason for changing her opinion". Ellen is shown as a worldy woman who married the first man who proposed to her!!! In "Scarlett" ,Rhett says "We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners" Such comments make the reader wonder if Ripley actually read the orignal book. Rhett says clearly at the Atlanta bazaar in GWTW "Blockading is a buisiness with me and I'm making money out of it. When I stop making money out of it, I'll quit" The climax doesnt even fit into the story and only serves to make the reader hopelessly confused. And couldnt Ripley have used other names for her supporting characters than Mitchell's? Sally Brewtons name has been taken from Sally Munroe's. Similarly, Katheleen 'O Hara's is nothing but Catheleen Calvert's name with the 'C' turned into a 'K'. The book is good, and Ripley did a good job spinning a new story and deserves to be praised for it, as it is not easy to write a good sequel, especially for a great classic such as GWTW. The book, however, is definitely not what Margaret Mitchell would wanted it to be. GWTW was the story of a Confederate girl who reacted to circumstances differently, but was as loyal to the South as any of them. Im "Scarlett", she might have been Irish!!!!!! The story drags and makes the reader skip pages. The story is as good as can be expected, as a 90's writer cannot write in the same style as a 20's writer, but the story falls short of the glamour, beauty and pride that gave GWTW its special charm, and made it a favourite of all time.

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Summary: Someone please write a more believable sequel!!
Review: I read this book long before I read the reviews, and I agree with the reviewers who said it resembled more a 1980's Harlequin Romance than a true portrayal of Scarlett O'Hara. The beginning of the plot was good. Naturally Scarlett wanted to obtain sole ownership of Tara. I could forgive Ms. Ripley for not continuing the Ashley/Scarlett/Rhett conflict. She was not interested in old conflicts, I guess; but I wanted to know how Scarlett was going to deal with her promise to Melanie, now that she had Ashley but no longer loved him. Why didn't she scheme to get Rhett back after he married his Melanie clone? The Scarlett of Gone with the Wind would have tried and done it too. Why didn't she remain in the South and fight for Tara? She could not have become "The O'Hara". Her father Gerald was the baby in the family. His eldest brother James was still alive in Ripley's book; by primogeneture He was the O'hara. The moment Scarlett met her Irish relations, the believablity element sank as deep as the Titanic sank. I don't know Irish history; all I know is that Ripley's Scarlett was out of place and time there. If she was going to be a Fenian, why not be a Fenian here? Canada suffered several Fenian raids and also had many Fenian sympathizers. Ms. Ripley's Irish plot would have worked with her own heroine; but not for an established character like Scarlett.