Gone With the Wind

Megan Young · Post by **Megan Young** » 07 Sep 2013, 03:23

I read this one and the sequel, two books on my top favourite list. Gone with the Wind as a movie was also amazing!

Zannie · Post by **Zannie** » 07 Sep 2013, 03:58

Only the sequel was written by a different author.

Megan Young · Post by **Megan Young** » 07 Sep 2013, 04:03

Yes I know, it was really good but not quite as good as the first one.

Zannie · Post by **Zannie** » 07 Sep 2013, 04:06

And took the story in a completely different direction

Loveabull · Post by **Loveabull** » 09 Sep 2013, 11:28

a terrific book, I still have the paperback of it my Mom gave to me as a teen. She took me to the movie the first time when I was about twelve. A sweet tradition...I packed the book in my hospital bag for all five kids, good involved reading for labor, great to pick up for middle of the night feedings. The secret to reading as a new mom is nursing lying down, every feeding can be a reading break win-win!

sbanks147 · Post by **sbanks147** » 09 Sep 2013, 11:57

I saw the movie recently again, and I am surprised with myself that I have not read the book yet. It sounds really good though, so I am putting it on my wish list

Sirisha25 · Post by **Sirisha25** » 17 Sep 2013, 17:15

Gone With the Wind is clearly a classic. I read the book when I was in middle school and I was enthralled. I love the character of Scarlett O'Hara. The main thing that I disliked about the movie was that they took her eldest child out of this movie. We all who read the book know that Scarlett first marries Charles Hamilton to get back at her beloved Ashley Wilkes. After that marriage she has his son Wade Hampton Hamilton. Charles dies during the war from a sickness. To save her beloved Tara: Scarlett then marries Frank, the beau of her sister Suellen. They have Ella than Frank dies in the KKK attack. She finally marries the one man that has loved her through her previous two marriages but is blind to the fact that she doesn't really love Ashley. They have a child named Bonnie Blue. It broke my heart when he was like cheer up maybe you'll have a miscarriage. Bonnie's death is heartbreaking to watch. I hate that Rhett leaves her. I loved Rhett Butler and Ashley Wilkes is charming. I have also read the sequel called Scarlett. I have also read the other books that are considered sequels to Gone With the Wind and they are all interesting in their own way. I love the happy endings in the sequels but hate that the Scarlett movie was ruined by the changes that the director made to the story.

aaristil · Post by **aaristil** » 19 Sep 2013, 10:32

This novel took me from my room to the South with Scarlett. I enjoyed the novel so much that I had to read the sequel that I came across. I am a romance novel fanatic. I love the plot and thought the novel was unpredictable which is what I love. I love novels where I must reflect on characters to better understand them and their role as that specific character. I have yet to have the pleasure to watch the film but I hope find a copy somewhere.

Amheiser · Post by **Amheiser** » 09 Jan 2014, 11:03

I never liked studying history in school but I really like reading stories about things that happened during historic events. It makes understanding the events so much easier when you can see it through the characters and what they are going through and feeling during those times. Gone With the Wind took me through those times along with the characters and brought to life the events the characters had to go through and helped me to better understand that period of history.

Shann335 · Post by **Shann335** » 09 Jan 2014, 21:52

Gone with the Wind is one of my favorite books. I cannot even guess how many times I have read it and Scarlett is one of my all time favorite characters. I love that she don't care what anyone thought during a time period where being outspoken and different would get you ostracized, not your own reality show the way it would today. Scarlett knew what she wanted and made sure to get it. I can also relate to her relationship to Rhett in someways. They are so much alike that neither one can give in, each wanting to win the upper hand and in the end they both lose.
I have read the sequel and I honestly wondered if the author had read the original book. The Scarlett in my head would not have done any of the things the character in the sequel did. I would like to believe Scarlett won Rhett back by being the strong willed, stubborn flirt she was through out Gone with the Wind, not by becoming a stalker who bombards his parents or by running away to Ireland .

lkkuehn12 · Post by **lkkuehn12** » 16 Jan 2014, 01:22

Margaret Mitchell only had one novel published during her lifetime: Gone with the Wind. Her book is thick and discusses many different themes, but the main issue throughout the text is how Scarlet is effected by her surroundings and how she changes as a person because of them. Do you believe that Scarlett changed for better or worse and can we, as readers, really answer that question without knowing how Mitchell would have described her main character after Gone with the Wind ended?

gali · Post by **gali** » 16 Jan 2014, 07:54

I have read the book several times and watched the movie. It is one of my favorite books.

I didn't like the end and believe Scarlett changed for better. There was a sequel written by another author, but I didn't read it.

lbuckman · Post by **lbuckman** » 20 Jan 2014, 20:42

I think that Scarlett changed for the better. I have read the book a couple of times, and have also seen the movie.

rachellinn · Post by **rachellinn** » 26 Jan 2014, 01:22

I think Scarlett changed for the better, but it was a hardened kind of better — that is, she realized how she'd changed from this carefree, spoiled girl to this honestly vicious, manipulative person who'd do anything for her land. I think this is used against her when people talk about the book, because they say she became a horrible person for not sacrificing things to her husbands or to Melanie or whomever. But she knew what she wanted from the beginning and established right away that she would stop at nothing to get it. So in that regard, I think she didn't change personality, so much as she changed her understanding of the things she'd have to do to make her own dreams come true. Or at least not fail. I hope that didn't get too rambling at the end, there, haha.

michelev · Post by **michelev** » 22 Feb 2014, 01:39

Gone With the Wind is my favorite book. I also read its sequel, but was not impressed with it. It didn't have the flavor ofMs. Mitchell's book, and the characters were not nearly as well developed. In GWTW, Scarlett's strength carries the entire "cast" through the horrible ravages of war. Even though she is an histrionic narcissist, she does grow up a bit at the end, but retains her selfish strength to vow to rise from the ashes and get what she wants yet again.