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Title: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ISBN: 0-446-36538-6 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.72 (507 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: YES to strong women!
Comment: I first read GWTW when I was a teenager and recently reread it after reading several books about strong women. The book is just as good as I remembered. Stories about brave women who keep moving forward have always inspired me. If you have never read GWTW, do yourself a favor and take the leap. Mitchell takes you right into the heart of a time that affected all Americans. Living in Atlanta where the book was set makes it even more appealing to me. After you finish this book, take a chance and read about other strong women that are alive and well, even as I write this. I was blown away by Mayada Al-Askari, in Mayada, Daughter of Iraq.
Rating: 5
Summary: Read It For More Than The Love Story...
Comment: If you read GWTW strictly as a love story,you're missing part of the picture,and I'm saying this as someone who DID read it as a love story many years ago at the age of twelve. And I don't mean just the surface historical picture either.It goes so much deeper.
Scarlett is of course the central character,and to me,a metaphor for the "New South",in that she compromises with the new circumstances in order to survive.Melanie appeared to me as a symbol of the "Old South"-but the part of it that had integrity and strength.They needed each other in order to survive,and it took Scarlett until the end of the book to realise this.Ashley is the part of the Old South that couldn't adjust.Rhett is the person who though he despised the old ways and all they stood for until age and time made him begin to realise what he had thrown away.He still had a cynicism about it,but he also had an appreciation for the charm of a time that would never be again.
As with many others,Scarlett was my favorite character in my first few readings,but I came to a new appreciation of Melanie over time. I began to see that she had a true quiet strength that Scarlett could never approach,one that didn't require her to compromise her principles and her loyalty,as Scarlett had to,in order to survive. The character of Ashley,on many further readings,doesn't appear quite as pathetic as before(though I never found him THAT pathetic in the first place).He was simply,as he tragically recognised,an anachronism in his time,a beautiful dream which evaporated under the harsh glare of a new reality.He was the part of the dream that Scarlett clung to,even as she clung to the ideal of her mother Ellen,never seeing the truth of these ideals-the honor,strength,and integrity of the dream,rather than the outward forms.This was HER tragedy-even though she was a survivor of a kind,she had to destroy all that was good in order to do so.Melanie had the true moral courage that allowed her to survive without destroying the good-to me,a much more difficult kind of survival.
I'll need to read this book so many more times before I'll feel finally understand it all,if I ever will.I understand the old story,being born and raised in the South,of the struggle to hold on to your identity and still be a part of the world around you.I understand why The War can feel like yesterday-after all, most of it was fought on the soil here,and the losers always remember longer.I think the background of Scarlett's father,Gerald O'Hara from Ireland,neatly ties into this.
Read and re-read this book,because everytime you do you'll find depths you didn't plumb before.There is so much symbolism to be explored,each reading will provoke new thoughts.
Rating: 5
Summary: Substantial, provocative, and still fresh
Comment: I was hesitant to pick this up and read it for two reasons: It's size, and the fact that I had seen the movie no less than seven or eight times.
So I decided to buy it on Amazon, but when it arrived, I thought to myself, "I'll just read the first page." Two-hundred pages later I was still reading. I was totally blown away by the excellent writing. While I knew the characters (though there are more in the book than in the movie) I was intrigued to see how Mitchell put them all together. The book is actually better than the movie, if you can believe that!
I would say there are three book on the South that are must reads, GONE WITH THE WIND being an obvious one. The other two are TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and Jackson McCrae's BARK OF THE DOGWOOD. All three of these books are page-turners with well-developed characters, great plot, wonderful descriptions,and insight into the human condition. William Faulker said that the only thing worth writing about was the conflict within the human heart. These three books have that, and it's beautifully portrayed, especially in GONE WITH THE WIND.
Of all the books out there, GONE WITH THE WIND if my all-time favorite!
Also recommended: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and BARK OF THE DOGWOOD
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Title: Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" by Alexandra Ripley ISBN: 0446363251 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title:Gone with the Wind ASIN: B00004RF96 Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.97 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.98 |
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Title: The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough ISBN: 0380018179 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1978 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Gone With the Wind by Herb Bridges, Terryl C. Boodman ISBN: 067168387X Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 15 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Complete Gone With the Wind Trivia Book by Pauline Bartel ISBN: 0878336192 Publisher: Taylor Pub Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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