Lo que el viento se llevó, vuelve con scarlett

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Summary: Worthless
Review: A sequel to Gone With The Wind? A plum assignment for any author! Certainly, all of the millions of readers of the original novel has imagined "what happened after..." in their own minds, and longed for the story to be continued by a writer as skilled and involved with her story as Margaret Mithell. Alas, Alexandra Ripley is not that author! She has merely expanded a tired "bodice ripper" romance plot, inserting Mithchell's characters haphazardly, inventing new ones without regard to logic, and written her own stupid sequel to the beloved original. In contrast to Mitchell's exhaustive period research, Ripley's is perfunctory at best. Description and mood are merely sketched and character development appears to be a literary concept Ripley is unfamiliar with. Any loyal reader of Gone With The Wind can spot lapses of logic everywhere in this flat, trite sequel. Did Ripley even read Mitchell's book? One sad example out of many: When Scarlett goes to Tara to visit her sister Suellen, she finds the farm run-down and Suellen in rags. What? What happened to the expert farm management of Will Benton, Suellen's husband, which is so clearly spelled out in Mitchell's novel? Suellen in rags? Where did the unlimited funds Rhett provided for Tara and Scarlett's family go? Again, Mitchell stated all this clearly in her original novel. I guess Ripley just didn't "give a damn"! THIS BOOK IS WORTHLESS! Stay with your own fantasies of what became of Scarlett and Rhett until the Mitchell estate's copyright runs out. Maybe then some real literary talent will take a crack at carrying on the saga of Margaret Mitchell's immortal American characters... And , God, please don't let Alexandra Ripley near any other American icons!

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Summary: I love you you abusive wrench!!! WOW
Review: My best friend and I are obsessed with the story of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'hara. My friend got the book and let me read it after she did. It started off really slow, but I was mistified(after all I was reading about Rhett and Scarlett after dying because I had no idea what happened to them). I read the book . I really enjoyed it. I hated the middle, but the begining and the end make up for it. When I finally made it to the last chapter, I was getting worried. After I finished the book I culdn't stop thinkind about it. Still today when I think of the timless story of Rhett and Scarlett a smile comes to my face.

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Summary: don't be so hard on Alexandra Ripley
Review: This is in response to some of the other reviews I just got done reading. It's true that the seaqual "Scarlett" wasn't as good as GWTW, but you should have known it wouldn't be before you read it. No one could ever possibly match Margaret Mitchell. The seaqual was still a good story though. I was very happy with the way Scarlett finally started maturing. And when she meets her Irish relatives- that part of the story is wonderful. And you have to admitt that Scarlett's daughter Cat is a great character created by Ripley. I do however have to agree with the opinions on Rhett's character- way underdeveloped. On the whole "scarlett" was a good story, I enjoyed it, although not as much as I enjoyed GWTW. Gone With the Wind will ALWAYS be my favorite.

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Summary: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Review: The beggining of this book was well done, and really followed the ending of Mitchelle's book very closely. But as the book dragged on,(most of the story moved very slowly)Ripley began to rewrite the characters. By the end of the book Scarlett and Rhett only had the same names as the original characters. The book was disguised to look like the sequel to Margret Mitchelle's classic "Gone With the Wind", but in the end fell quite short of carrying on the legacy of the greatest book ever written.

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Summary: Good book, but it could have been better.
Review: This book was not at all what I hoped for. I guess it was OK, but not even close to the great classic "Gone with the wind". The characters were the same of course, but it had not the touch of the nineteenth-century. I liked the happy ending, but I think that the unhappy ending in "Gone with the wind", where you do not really know whether Scarlett is going to get Rhett back or not, is a part of the book's charm. It is good to think a little for yourself and let your imagination figure out what happends next. But then again, it is a hard task to write the sequel of such a great classic as "Gone with the wind". Thinking that, you realise that the author of "Scarlett" did a pretty good job after all

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Summary: Good, but not good enough
Review: It was an interesting story, but wasn't nearly as good as Gone With the Wind. I was mad the way Mitchell created her characters and then Ripley changed them. A sequel should follow the original book and keep the personalities of the characters the same. Also, it was much slower than the original, there were parts that didn't seem to fit into the story. I admired Scarlett in the original, because she was so strong willed, but in the sequal she was just plain mean

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Summary: A shame.
Review: The book would have been good if it was a continuation of another book or a book all by itself. I would have been joyous and not upset if the book was good. I do nto recommend reading it unless you are in the mood for disappointment. In no way was Ripley thinking the same way Mitchell was when writing the book

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Summary: Scarlet? No, it's a very pale, insipid shade of pink.
Review: Granted that GWTW is a hard act to follow, Ms. Ripley could nevertheless have done a better job. What made Scarlett an appealing, memorable heroine was her selfishness, her bullheaded tenacity and almost complete lack of taste. What emerges from this wreck of a book is a jewel-bedecked beauty with a mysteriously attractive spell in her smoky green eyes (is this Zebra, Harlequin or Silhouette?). And Rhett, a strong vital person who was nearly always in control of himself, "feels threatened" by his ex-wife's advances; as if that wasn't apocalyptic enough, he marries a frail, delicate Melanie-type to spite Scarlett (the last woman I can see him marrying, for the last reason). If you liked GWTW, do not read this book. There is actually only one reason why you should read it - the miniseries was so bad that the book actually seems competent in comparison

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Summary: A good and trashy romance novel
Review: Taken alone, this novel would have been a pretty good read for a plane ride or to take to the beach. Like Ripley's earlier "Charleston" this book has some historical facts dramatized by fictional characters who live extraordinary lives and fall in love once in a while. Sounds pretty basic, huh? It is. I was angry when I heard that a money-hungry publisher had offered Alexandra Ripley the sequel to GWTW; I was even angrier that the Mitchell estate allowed it to be written. But that was nothing compared to my indignation and frustration upon reading this "novel" that should have a half-naked couple floridly painted on the front. This is NOT a sequel!!! It is simply an attempt at a possible scenario that MIGHT have followed GWTW written by a vapid woman who dares to class herself with Margaret Mitchell. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. Instead, get it from the library and convince yourself that any resemblance to the characters and situations in Gone With The WInd are purely coincidental!

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Summary: "Tomorrow is another day..."
Review: I have been a GWTW fan for as long as I can remember (I even named my dogs Scarlett and Rhett), and I anxiously awaited the release of Alexandra Ripley's sequel. Having read GWTW and seen the movie more times than I can count, I had preconceived notions of how I thought Scarlett should go about winning Rhett's heart back. Although I'm not sure that Margaret Mitchell ever intended for Scarlett to win Rhett back, I think Alexandra Ripley did a great job of capturing Scarlett as she matured from a selfish and vain child to a strong willed woman. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the sequel and I am currently looking for it in hardback (if anyone has a copy in good shape, I'd love to buy it!) I would recommend the book to anyone who enjoyed GWTW, but don't expect it to be Margaret Mitchell's writing, because it's not and it shouldn't be! Alexandra Ripley has her own style and it shines through in her sequel