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Hooked by this book I'm not much of a romance reader but I remember a school friend who RAVED about this book. I bought it more out of curiosity to see what all the fuss was about - but oh, what a book! It's hard to describe what makes this book so brilliant - it's a kind of alchemy. Fantastic characters lovingly described - their weaknesses and strengths as real and vivid as anyone around you. You BELIEVE in these characters, and care about what happens to them - you are caught up in their world completely. As for... more info
Ridiculously overblown If you like your romance doomed, and with no real romance, your prose overblown and your books as heavy as doorstops, this is the book for you. Coming in at over 1000 pages of close set text, this may have been the book the word epic was invented for. It concerns the life and loves of Scarlett O' Hara, the most unsympathetic, remorseless heroine of any book anywhere, ever. Set in the American civil war, it uses the fortunes of the Southern state of Georgia as its backdrop and sets the love triangle... more info
I didn't want it to end This book was just the ticket for a good old fashioned summer read. Sitting outside in my garden I was swept away to Atlanta. I loved the film and had always meant to read the book and have now had my chance. I cannot get over how well cast the film was, all the actors really stayed loyal to the text. The great bonus of the book is the historical, political and social perspectives which gives the story much more meaning and good reference points. The events make far more sense. I loved this book.
Greatest novel I ever read As a boy growing up, I always wondered why my mother had tears in her eyes at the end of Gone With The Wind when it was on TV each year. Recently I developed a keen interest in the War between the States (civil war if you prefer)and got around to reading this book. It is by any standard, exceptionally well written and doesn't shine away from the horrors of Reconstruction and portrays the original Ku Klux Klan in a heroic light although Rhett Butler (always the voice of reason) argues the successes of the... more info
