Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | Review of Gone with the Wind

Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | My favourite book of all time

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Gone With the Wind

	Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell Scribner, 1936 - 1048 pages average customer review:based on 657 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Review of Gone with the Wind

Being a guy this is kind of hard for me to admit, but this is the best book that I have ever read to date. I know that this is a "chick book" but I found it completely fascinating. I learned much more about the civil war from this book than I ever did from a history book or a classroom. I also learned about the origination of the KKK, all about slavery and all about real southern hospitality. There is so much more to this book than just a great story. You actually get to feel what it would have been like to grow up and live on a plantation before, during and after the civil war. I believe that this book should be read by everyone because of its historical value even though the story itself is fiction. I have read very few books where you really know and feel for the characters like you do in GONE WITH THE WIND.

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My favourite book of all time

I first read this book when I was 15 years old and have now read it 6 times, and will read it again. It is that good!
There is so much more in this book that you will not find in the movie, you will be surprised by how much that has been left out.
The characters are fabulous, Scarlett and Rhett are more scandalous and assertive than ever suggested in the movie. Melly has a quiet strength that often outstripps Scarlett.
My favourite book of all time, absolutely

This is why it's the best seller

Why is this novel the second best selling book in the world? Because every character evokes deep emotion to the reader whether love or hate. The complexity of the personalities written by Mitchell is amazing in itself, but place on top of that a writing style that flows like poetry and you've got in your hands the most fun a person can have with paper. Vivid descriptions of the Southern landscape, the Old South traditions, the Southern gentility, and the graceful way of life pre-Civil War are second to none. I have lived in the South my whole life and much of the lifestyle Mitchell relates in GWTW are accurate and still exist in one form or fashion. The South is the only true culture left in America and this is a window into how it began and what it was like in its peak. Traditions die hard down here but they are dying fast, get romanced by life south of the Mason-Dixon before it gets washed away in a flood of "progress".

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Well written and researched popular novel

GONE WITH THE WIND was a phenomenon when it first appeared as a novel during the 30's and its place in popular culture became even more entrenched when the wildly successful movie was released a few years later. The book is still worth reading today as Mitchell very skillfully brings to life the years just before during and after the Civil War from the viewpoint of white Georgians. When Mitchell started writing this book the Civil War had only been over less than seventy years (very comparable to a contemporary author writing about the events surrounding World War II) and the country was very deeply divided between North and South. Mitchell's Southern sympathies and prejudices are often very apparent and the modern reader needs to realize the author was a product of her time and not be so easily offended that they can not enjoy what the book has to offer. Mitchell created many memorable characters in her novel and though it has been called a "soap opera" the situations and characterizations are not unrealistic and the historical research is sound.

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