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Summary: Very, Very Good
Review: This was a really good book. I could read it in three days. Although I know that Alexandra Ripley doesn't have the same writing style as Margaret Mitchell, she does an excellent job. I liked how she made Scarlett "grow up", and I loved the way she described everything as if you were right there. There is no other book as good as GWTW, but this one comes really close. They blend together in an unusual way, and I recommend it to anyone who loves historical romance.
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Summary: "My hand just won't write 'fiddle-dee-dee,' Ripley said
Review: ...in an interview she gave before this book was published. How in the world any publisher thought for one moment that someone who couldn't write that phrase could do justice to the sequel to GWTW, is beyond me. And Ripley doesn't. The characters are shallow pretenses of the originals, the story is more cheap paperback romance than the original and the entire effort is one, sad joke.Ripley claims she read GWTW six times (be still, my heart -- most of us fans read it more than that before we were out of college) and she outlined it, studied the language (??? she isn't even a Southerner?), and "even" copied 200 pages to get the feel of it. A totally unsuccessful venture, judging from the result. Don't spend money or time on this if you loved GWTW. It doesn't compare and shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath.
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Summary: A very good book
Review: When I first found out that there was sequal to Gone with the Wind I was so excited! At the end of Gone with the Wind Scarlett is so determained to get Rhett back and then the book ends, it just left me hanging. So when I found out that there was a sequel I just had to read it and i did. It was so good! At the end I don't know if Rhett was really acting like his chacter but I like happy endings so I didn't mind that Rhett was actully openly loving Scarlett. Over all it was an amazing book and I recommend it to anyone who loved Gone With the Wind, but wanted a happy ending.
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Summary: I really liked it
Review: I really liked this book, Alexandra Ripley isn't as good of writer as Margrett Mitchells but I loved what she did with this book. After everyone reads Gone With The Wind they always come up with a different ending so that Scarlett and Rhett are happy and in some way everyone tries to change Scarlett and so Ripley wrote her own version of this and even though its just a book once it's written down then that seems to makes it "real" so Ripley just tried to answer everyone's questions about what happens next and so on. And she made it a happy ending so that everyone was satisfied and not always wondering "what's going to happen next?", or "How can Scarlett get Rhett back?" So all in all I loved this book because it just but my mind at ease knowing that everyone was happy.
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Summary: Don't waste the time or money!
Review: GWTW is one of, if not, the best novel I remember reading, which is why I just had to read the sequel to it. I will admit Ms. Ripley is a talented writer, and the story would have been passable if one didn't expect so much from it. Unfortunately, you can't help but want Scarlett to match or even surpass GWTW. I think the biggest problem is that it doesn't come from the same author. Ms. Ripley and Ms. Mitchell are not related story writers at all. As hard as it may be, the best idea is to leave this novel be and let GWTW just stay as it is.
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Summary: only if you're desparate...
Review: i only read this sequel to GWTW at the encouragement of a friend, and maybe i was just a little curious. But about 3 chapters into Alexandra Ripleys 'sequel' all i could think was, 'my god, i could have written a better story'. As a stand alone tale, Scarlett is probably not too bad, in a mills and boon kind of way. but as a sequel it is completely lacking in every way.
RHETT- my FAVOURITE character, becomes a useless, mean man, who, unlike in GWTW doesnt act out of love but out of...umm...i really dont know.
SCARLETT- i never really liked her, but i admired her spirit. But now she is turned into a boring, pointless, rambling ('tara, i love tara, tomorrow, yes, tomorrow, tara, tara, tara, tara...) woman, who's only goal in life is to win back the man who she THINKS she loves. she is suddenly a loving mother, which she NEVER was in GWTW and she leaves Tara as easily as one might the supermarket.
i wont even mention, Ashley, Pittypat, Eleanor Butler, Careen, India, or the moutains of characters which seem to have been crammed into this book simply because Alexandra Ripley could. in short, i have to agree with those who say there would be a real sequel if there was meant to be. this book is unsatisfying and the convenient plot twists a joke. i.e. the boating 'accident' for those who have read the book. i was never a HUGE fan of GWTW, but as i said, i respected them, now i pity them and their weak characters. so basically - do not read this book unless you are DESPERATE for closure, its probably more satisfying to think up alternative endings in your mind... i think the major failing of this book is that GWTW was set during the civil war, that's what shaped the characters and what drove the story, but now there's nothing around the people to govern their actions. GWTW was a book about the south and its people- Scarlett is a book just about the people, and much poorer for it.
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Summary: Not GONE WITH THE WIND, but a decent read
Review: Okay, so SCARLETT, by Alexandra Ripley, isn't quite Margaret Mitchell's GONE WITH THE WIND; but it isn't a total waste, either. In fact, it's far from it. It doesn't quite give you the satisfaction of a true sequel written by the same author, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth reading.
Though it's long, this is a fast-read. If you loved GONE WITH THE WIND and want to see what Ms. Ripley's idea of the sequel is, you'll get through this probably in a week or less. And it's interesting. Ms. Ripley did a good job of developing new settings and new characters unlike any known in GONE WITH THE WIND. Instead of Atlanta and Jonesboro, Georgia, it's Ireland. It's different, but interesting.
The main complaint about this book is the fact that it isn't GONE WITH THE WIND. Of course it isn't; Margaret Mitchell didn't write it. SCARLETT is written in a completely different way, with a completely different voice, a completely different mood, as it is a completely different author writing it.
The reason why I give this book three, and not four or even five stars, is because it's difficult for any true GONE WITH THE WIND fan to quite accept this as the genuine sequel, as the ending that Margaret Mitchell intended. For me, the sequel's version of Rhett Butler was the most disappointing: he seemed to have lost his magical spark. Scarlett grew up a bit, which might be considered a good thing, but I think she lost a little too much of her spirit and vivacity.
Of course, this would have been a difficult book for anybody to write -- even for Ms. Mitchell, probably. There is no more Civil War to write about, and with the tables turned on Scarlett and Rhett, that ever-intriguing element of GONE WITH THE WIND is gone. Mammy is old now (and she dies in the beginning of Ms. Ripley's idea of the sequel). And Melanie, a major pillar of the original work, has died. Margaret Mitchell did such a thorough job tying up the loose ends in GONE WITH THE WIND (all save for Scarlett's newly-discovered love for Rhett when he no longer loves her) that a completely new plot had to be invented for the sequel.
Ms. Ripley had a difficult task before her when she chose to write the sequel to the original beloved Civil War love story. She could not be Margaret Mitchell. And yet the public wanted the sequel -- it's been killing us ever since Rhett left Scarlett. This is evident in how quickly the copies of SCARLETT sold.
It isn't GONE WITH THE WIND, but there is an interesting new plot to be found in Alexandra Ripley's SCARLETT. It's a completely new story that's going to take you on a completely new adventure for a completely different experience. And the ending, different as it might have been, did make me cry. If you're a die-hard GONE WITH THE WIND fan, you probably won't find this book to be of GONE WITH THE WIND caliber. But then again, I wouldn't recommend passing it up. Even if it isn't Ms. Mitchell's writing, you've just got to find out what Ms. Ripley had to say about what would happen to Rhett and Scarlett. (And I wouldn't recommend the movie -- which will spoil your image of Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh as Rhett and Scarlett.)
If you loved GONE WITH THE WIND, read SCARLETT. It isn't GONE WITH THE WIND, but it is worth your while.
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Summary: Well, I managed to finish it...
Review: That's about the best thing I can say about this ill-conceived sequel. As a longtime "Windy," I eagerly looked forward to the publication of "Scarlett" when I heard that one was coming out. What a disappointment! Taking Scarlett's "tomorrow is another day" approach to life as her starting point, "Scarlett" sends the GWTW heroine back to Tara, where this time she discovers that her beloved Mammy has died. What a plot twist! Where could Ripley have found the inspiration? Could it be, dare I say, Scarlett's desparate return to Tara after the burning of Atlanta when she only wants her mother, only to discover that her mother has just died? By the way, if you're counting from the point just before "Gone with the Wind" left off, at this point, Mammy's death comes on the heals of the deaths of daughter Bonnie and Melanie Wilkes. Being connected with Scarlett must be hazardous to one's health. Mammy's death actually serves a more pragmatic purpose. Written in the PC '90s, "Scarlett"'s solution to Mitchell's unPC treatment of African-American characters was to kill them off quickly, and later to move Scarlett far away from the South. Unfortunately, with Mammy gone, we have no one to serve as Scarlett's conscience. She was always the rather large Jimminy Cricket reminding Scarlett of what she should do--just before she did the opposite. Discovering that Tara just ain't what it used to be, Scarlett then sets off to Charleston in the hope of winning Rhett back. The scenes in which we meet Rhett's mother, Scarlett attempts at reconciliation, and the post-shipwreck love scene are the only interesting ones in the book. And fortunately they come early--making them easier to find. A wise reader would stop here. These scenes are the ONLY reason for giving this review more than one star. Alas, we're not even halfway through the darn thing at this point. Scarlett then visits her O'Hara relatives and gets in touch with her Irish roots. Ultimately, she winds up in Ireland in the midst of the Irish-English conflict of the 1870s. Scarlett acquires the original Tara, and sets out to be a beneficent landowner to her tenants. Since those working her land are white, we are expected to find this arrangement palatable, while addressing the plight of freed slaves in the South could not be done in the same "nostalgia for the Old South" style of the original book. Just in case you actually intend to read the whole novel, I won't reveal whether Scarlett and Rhett get back together. If you are dying to know the answer, I would suggest that you just read that final chapter at the bookstore and save your money. There are so many wonderful journals about life during Reconstruction and during the Civil War. If "Gone with the Wind" has left you longing for more, read one of those.
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Summary: WARNING! A total waste....
Review: I can't belive this! Ok, i dont blame alexandra ripley 2 much, but she cood have done better! does GWTW really NEED a sequal? i mean, i think Margrat Mitchell left GWTW as a cliffhanger cuz she wants u to think of an ending! I feel sory 4 the people that gave this "book" 4 and 5 stars. REALLY. from the beginning i felt akward about this book. scarlett, from the spoild brat we love, changed to a non-feeling, mature woman who wants only rhett. rhett becomes boring too. he lost his spark. then scarlett gives up evrything & moves to ireland and HATES AMERICA? i feel sory for Ripley too. She tried... but she failed.
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Summary: Scarlett O'Hara, a living legend
Review: This novel picks up right where GWTW leaves off. I was skeptical about a sequel to what I consider the greatest story of all time. However, the writing stays true to the style of Margaret Mitchell. The story takes us on a journey of growth and maturity. Our opinion of our heroine turns into one of admiration as we see her attempt to get her man back, but then she gets side tracked into developing a deeper meaning of life. There are a lot of suprises and it is very different from the movie ending. Scarlett has become a strong, independent and always charming (southern style) adult woman.
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