Lo que el viento se llevó, vuelve con scarlett

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Summary: Poorly written, but it had potential.
Review: Alexandra Ripley's writing style is immature. Who let this amateur publish a sequel to one of the greatest love stories of all time? The story-line had potential and a better writer could have taken it somewhere. Alexandra Ripley makes Scarlett pathetic and overwhelmingly stupid and the people of Ireland take a beating as well. The climax scene is so unconnected with the rest of the book that it leaves you totally confused and unsatisfied

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Summary: Alexandra Ripley is no Margaret Mitchell
Review: From the moment I first read Gone With The Wind I was hooked, and dreamed of how Scarlett and Rhett would someday be reunited. That is part of the magic of GWTW, the greatest love story of all time. I can't believe that Alexandra Ripley even read GWTW. Tara was Scarlett's heart and soul, the source of her strength, and she never would have left it, not as long as there was a breath in her body. "Scarlett" is an enjoyable book in itself...Ripley tells a good tale. However, she seems to have written the book as her own story, as if by moving Scarlett to Ireland can give her the freedom to change certain pesonalities with the characters, but not quite understanding the depth of them as their creator did. Treated as a seperate book, it would be more enjoyable, but not as the sequel to the greatest love story ever told

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Summary: It sucked!
Review: After reading 'Gone With the Wind' I was eager to read the sequal 'Scarlett'. From the very first I was disappointed in the book but I read it anyway. I was disappointed because the characters were very poorly developed, especially that of Rhett. The only thing that kept this book from getting a 1 for a rating instead of a 2, was that the author was at least smart enough to use a different setting for 'Scarlett' and so could therefore create new and different characters instead of trying to recreate more from the original story

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Summary: great book i throughly enjoyed it.
Review: she did a great job when writing the book, Margerat Mitchell couldn't of done it better job. she was through with the details in describing the cities, also the charecters in the story I espessially loved it when keeping Kat a secret from Rhett Scarlett was great. A woman of the 90's raising a child on her own. Making it with no help from no spouse. I know the and i can relate to the story. love it.

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Summary: Don't read it
Review: I too succumbed to this novel, which promised a continuation of my absolute favorite book of all time, the book to which nothing ever compared. Well, I was let down. The time spent in Ireland is incredibly boring. It goes on and on and on and it's awful. As for the book itself, it's not bad. But it's got nothing on the original; absolutely NOTHING. It's easy to decide to read it, but if I could turn back time I never would have read it. Personally I think no sequel is necessary to the spectacular Gone With the Wind. It is a beautiful story that is complete the way it is. I'd rather dream sequels to the book myself than read Ms. Ripley's attempt to follow it. It's nothing against her. After all, it would've been hard for anyone to pick up, what with Melanie dead and Scarlett no longer in love with Ashley. I can almost see how it was necessary to change Scarlett beyond recognition. The first part of it, when Scarlett went to Charleston, was actually pretty interesting. But this is not a book that should have been written. As Rhett said in the last pages of GWTW, "Scarlett, I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken--and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken pieces as long as I lived." Gone With the Wind ended, whether the ending was the way we wanted things to turn out or not, and this continuation is nothing but an attempt to glue pieces back together.

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Summary: Excellent Read
Review: I must say that I have read the reviews of this book and i tend to wonder if these persons are talking about the same novel. I thought this book was great. If you are a fan of heart-warming, non-cheesy, exciting and genuine romance stories you will love this book. This writer does an excellent job of presenting genuine and complex characters as well as well researched facts about the historical aspects of the story. I especially like the fact that this writer keeps the essence of Scarlett while showing how she changes but doing it in a believable way. You still feel as if the character is Scarlett although there are differences about her.
Knowing it was a sequel I did not expect too much but I was satisfied with the story. Some of the things that happen in this story may be a bit far-fetched, but any good story, movie or piece of entertainment is bound to have this effect. A word to some of die-hard GWTW fans, this writer is not Margaret Mitchell and so dont expect her writing to be like Ms. Mitchell, but at the same time be open-minded. She is very good and was chosen by Ms. Mitchell's estate.

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Summary: What's the matter with Scarlett?
Review: I have watched GWTW many times (but not read it yet) and I have read 'Scarlett' looong time ago but in a jump around mode (because I was not a good reader back then) and I thought well, it was a very romantic sequence. Then I watched the 'Scarlett' miniseries and thought I liked the book version better. Now, finally I got the chance to read the book as a whole and ... I can not say it is totally good anymore.

I enjoyed first chapters very much although some may say that Ms. Ripley taken Mammy out too quickly from the picture but I found no trouble with that. In fact, I became to know who Scarlett was, a determined, fight-till-the-last-drop heroine. I think Ms. Ripley has done a nice job for making the event in Tara and make Scarlett showed herself instead of just moping and get on with life in Atlanta.

When the event was turning from America to Ireland, I also didn't find it disturbing. I was actually glad she found something new and I love Irish themed things. As when Scarlett realized how bad she had treated Rhett and all of the people around her and for not thinking consequences of her acts, I really loved her then. She became a woman finally, not just I-want-it-the-way-I-want girl. The mature side was emphasized by the unconditional love she felt for Cat.

As for the Georgia's Tara, Scarlett did love the land and fought for it, but in the end, after she had Ballyhara and know the 'real' Tara, she inherit the land to Wade, her son from Hamilton (not Sue Ellen as a review mentioned. Scarlett knew better than that). It was a logical thing. When you have a nature like Scarlett who sometimes could be generous towards those that matters to her when needed plus her new found wisdom, yes, that could happen.

But somehow, from somewhere after she gave birth till the finish, I found the plot went out of the track:
1. If Scarlett loved her child more than anything in the world, how could she leave her in 6 weeks? There was no phone yet remember? How could a mother, who supposed to love the last child she ever gonna have, not get anxious about how her baby was doing in a day? Why didn't she take Cat with her? She certainly can bring a maid for Cat and arrange so nobody found out that she had a daughter (would it be a nice event? the hide and seek game). And how slow minded she was in finding out that the people of Ballyhara scared of Cat? I'd say she didn't care a bit about Cat, all she thought was I I I me me me.
2. When Fenton bluntly asked her to marry him, stating the plain terms of their marriage, I thought, well, Scarlett would certainly open her eyes wide now, but no. She accepted the proposal just because she thought Rhett would get a new baby form Anne and Cat would have a clean reputation, thanks to Fenton's money and title. God's nightgown! Clean reputation? From whom? The English? Who cared? Cat was unsafe from the Irish, not English! And Scarlett worsened it by accepting the proposal. Where her devotion to her love of her land and people? Gone the woman I was getting to know. Back to the Fiddle-dee-dee air headed girl who would stop at nothing. But at least that girl loved Tara with all her heart. This Scarlett... I'm sorry to say, I don't know her at all.

So now I think the miniseries version is much better than the book except for the misfit actor and actress. I wish they spent more time in casting. Would someone make a remake please?

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Summary: Stupid, stupid, stupid
Review: I thought to myself, how bad can the book be already? Well, BAD. I loved Gone With the Wind, and this is a terrible, terrible sequel. Save your time reading this, because it will only ruin GWTW for you. It was written horribly. This sequel is empty, shallow, & plainly meaningless. The depth that GWTW had for every character is GONE. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS!

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Summary: Ludicrous concept
Review: It has been a number of years since I rushed out and purchased my first edition copy of Scarlett and devoured it in a day. The bad taste left in my mouth then, remains with me today.

I found the entire idea of Scarlett abandoning her beloved South for Ireland to be the most insulting thing ever thrust upon a fan of any story. I am supposed to believe that this is what happens to the Great AMERICAN Novel's storyline?

I am also hard pressed to believe that Scarlett, a woman who tried so desperately to emulate her genteel mother, would somehow find herself evolving into an action hero. During the painful course of my journey through the pages I was constantly finding myself rolling my eyes and shaking my head. By the end, I was relatively certain that Ripley's primary influence was Bruce Willis in Die Hard and that she had never as much as had turned a single page of Mitchell's original work.

I am deeply offended that the Mitchell Trusts allowed this literary travesty to happen.

My only consolation is in knowing that this volume is rightly filling landfills the way no other book ever has, making remaining copies such as my own, an oddity whose collectible value increases with every year.

It is based on that premise alone that I would encourage anyone to consider its purchase.

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Summary: Stick to Gone with the Wind
Review: Margaret Mitchell was often asked if there would ever be a sequel to Gone with the Wind, what would happen to scarlett? Rhett? Would they ever get back together? She said the story ended where the book ended, and it should have remained as such. The first book was magnificent, it was not just about the love life of Scarlett, it was also about life during the civil war and how to overcome the hardships that war brings.

Writing a sequel to Gone with the Wind when you are not Margaret Mitchell is a daunting and unnecessary task. The story starts where the original book ended, some characters die so we are left with Scarlett going after Rhett page after page. She is not the same strong, stubborn, witty woman she was and has become a 30 year old immature girl acting like she's a teenager with a crush. She's boring talks about food, rhett, food again and money of course. The characters that surround her, except for Rhett's mom and a few of her extended family members, have no depth, are uninteresting and are so numerous that you don't remember who is who. Rhett is no longer charming, witty or smart and himself behaves like a child. He barely appears in the book.

The story takes us from Tara to Atlanta to Charleston to Savannah to Ireland and back and forth again. The first 350 pages are ok: the description of charlestonian 19th century way of life is very interesting and well researched, the book remains in the style of the original GWTW. But the rest is a succession of boring, uninteresting scenes made of many childish dialogues. The book has a hurried hollywood ending that does not make much sense but thank god puts an end to this abysmal soap opera.

I give it 2 stars because 1/3rd of the book is readable. I'll have to read the original GWTW again very soon so as to forget this terrible sequel.