Lo que el viento se llevó, vuelve con scarlett

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Summary: An Entertaining Dissappointment...
Review: After reading Gone With the Wind, I also read this book (and the dismal The Wind Done Gone) as a curiosity. I'm glad I read it, mostly because I could say I did. I also expected the worst, but in the end I believe that this book is entertaining, but not incredibly believable.

The most striking part of this book was how little Rhett was in it. This upset me - I'd hoped that for a book on Scarlett and Rhett's reconciliation, the two characters could actually talk their problems out instead of meeting during a ridiculous bit of danger in a stone tower. Maybe I'm too modern. I also thought that Rhett would need more convincing to re-fall in love with Scarlett. The idea that he was in actuality just repressing his true feelings totally misunderstands Rhett. I also, like many, didn't buy Scarlett's transformation into a loving mother. I did like Cat and Scarlett's relationship with Cat, but it could have been handled better.

The book was also too long - not really length-wise, but after the book got to Ireland it seemed to really, really drag. At about page 500-600 I was begging for the book to be over. And when the book does eventually end, everything is wrapped up too neatly. Ashely has a new wife. Column and Mrs. Fitz end in tragedy, and nobody really cares. What a shame.

And yet, the book is entertaining for many long stretches. I loved Alexandra Ripley's new characters. Rhett's mom, the grandfather, and Scarlett's Irish family were all great fun to read about and I enjoyed learning about them. Even still, entertaining scenes don't make for a good novel. This book is decent, especially if you have low expectations, but I don't believe this is what "really" happened.

Rating:
Summary: Don't read this book!
Review: hey don't read this book, i'll save you the trouble, first couple chapters good, middle is just a waste of space and MY time cause i actually read it hoping and praying that it would get better, it doesn't,, i was soo bored, but i refused to stop reading cause i had to know, i just had to know, well i'm saving you the trouble that i went through, After being missing for about 80% of the book he finally returns in the last chaper and they get back together.
this book left me with questions also, but this time i just did not want to know...
i was so disapointed as were most people who read this book too long to boring, good thing i only paid 50 cent for it,, he he

What this book is useful for:
-a door-stop
-a thing to level a table
-a hard writing service
-something to throw when upset
-something to sit on your shelf
-some ideas about the olden irish days IN Ireland
but not for a good time read
and thats my two cents!

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Summary: Scarlett isn't some lovey-dovey woman...
Review: I started reading this book and I liked it... at first. Scarlett was her normal speak whats on her mind, doesn' think before she acts, stubborn and willfull self. She wanted Rhett back and nothing would stand in her way. After Cat is born however, she TOTALLY changes. She is nice, sweet and kind. This is not Scarlett. I admit, in Gone with the Wind, I wwould cringe when i read some of the horrible things she did and think "Don't so that!" But now... I would gladly have her do that ALL the time. Ripley has turned her into someone she is not, and I am going to have to re-read GWTW many times before I get this picture of her out of head! Then there's the whole Ireland thing....
Scarlett would not leave the South for Ireland! She would not give Tara to her sister, the sister she hated more than anything, and she would not run away from Rhett. The Scarlett in GWTW would have stayed outside his doorstep untill he let her in.
If you are going to read this book, read untill she leaves Ireland for a visit to the South to take car of business, and then read the 10 pages or so, the rest is with charachters not in GWTW and with a pointless plot line. Read till then and the end, and you'll get everything you wanted.






Rating:
Summary: the price says it all
Review: you can obtain a used copy for 1 cent. Book owners happy to make a dollar from the postage. The TV movie Scarlett was as sad as the book. Leave Tara and go Ireland. Scarlett would have never done it, and neither would Margaret Mitchell. I suggest, that if you really want an ending, to just read GWTW or watch the movie, and set down and write your own personal ending..... It couldn't be worse. Leave Tara, and go to Ireland..... Yea right.

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Summary: Pure Fluff
Review: This book makes a mockery of Gone with the Wind and should not be allowed to be called its sequl.

Rating:
Summary: it was boring!
Review: it was the most boring book i have come across. it pales in comparison with the original. it was like a cheasy romance novel that sells a dime a dozen. when i finished the original gwtw i was excited to know the sequel, boy i was dissappointed... most part of the novel was like so unimportant to the stroy. it took me a very long time to finish reading this book, because it was so boring. but i guess all gone with the wind fans out there has to read it for themselves to say that it stunk, big time!