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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
I must have read this book more than 20 times. I would say it is my all time favorite.
I enjoyed the story, but recognize this book is racist and problematic. Scarlett and Rhett are both terrible people. The best part of Gone with the Wind is that it taught me the expression “God’s nightgown”.
I may need to reread this, having last read it as a freshman in college. At the time, I recall being fascinated by Scarlett and her strength and ability to take control of her life in a way that women weren't supposed to do back then. She was unethical and duplicitous and incapable of empathy, all of which I recognized at the time. However, the larger historical context was likely lost on me back then. For now, I'm sticking to 3 stars.
Read in either high school or early 20s. Adored it for what it was: a romance, portrayal of the Civil War and it's impact on the antebellum South, Reconstruction, and Scarlett's growth from spoiled brat to fiercely independent overcomer. I was appalled at the racism and absolutely inaccurate portrayal of slavery though. Makes sense written when it was and from the perspective of white plantation slave owners I guess.
Look, it's a classic. I don't deny it. But using the Goodreads rating system: two stars, "It was ok."
It'd be very generous to say that I liked it. I reached that "alright, hell or highwater I am going to finish this brick" with 300+ pages to go. It was... interminable.
Scarlett is occasionally charming and perpetually awful.
I've heard this framed as a "coming of age" story, but though Scarlett is driven, an uncommonly independent woman of the time and place, she is -- to the end -- selfish.
Sure, it's a "period piece," but the casual racist's guide to history relayed in chapter 37 was unsettling. And in chapter 38, framing the Yankees as those oppressing the blacks of the south... gross.
It'd be very generous to say that I liked it. I reached that "alright, hell or highwater I am going to finish this brick" with 300+ pages to go. It was... interminable.
Scarlett is occasionally charming and perpetually awful.
I've heard this framed as a "coming of age" story, but though Scarlett is driven, an uncommonly independent woman of the time and place, she is -- to the end -- selfish.
Sure, it's a "period piece," but the casual racist's guide to history relayed in chapter 37 was unsettling. And in chapter 38, framing the Yankees as those oppressing the blacks of the south... gross.
I don't think I've ever disliked a literary character as much as Scarlett O'Hara. She is the asshole of all assholes.
Simultaneously an excellently written historical romance, and a piece of racist propaganda by an author who believed the "southern lost cause" myth, that being that the civil war was not over slavery and romanticized the plantation-era south, including downplaying slavery as “benevolent”- not remotely historically accurate. Unfortunately it was used by post reconstruction southerners as a piece of political propaganda to support their the romanticization of the antebellum south. Enjoy it but enjoy it critically.
Yes I actually read it. More than once.
It's really long and it's a lot different than the movie.
It's really long and it's a lot different than the movie.
Well I started this and I`m loving it. I read this quote.... "White flour was scarce and so expensive that corn bread was universal instead of biscuits, rolls, and waffles." and had the sudden urge to eat biscuits. So I dug out an old recipe book and made them...waiting for them to come out of the oven now...
UPDATE....
Those biscuits were delicious....but anyways....I hate Scarlett, if I`m allowed to say that....I just don`t like her, I love the book, but she annoys me. I used to hate Melanie, because she did, but than as it went on, I kinda of started to see Melanie`s innoncence, and I really just turned all my hate on to Scarlett....grrness. I want to know how it ends. I`m about halfway through the book... Can`t wait to see the ending!
This book...I just finished it. A very good book. The ending...just that ending. It was...just so sad...and depressing...it was definitely a good book though. Glad I took the time to read it, because as the guys in my anatomy class deemed it..."it`s thick enough to be a legal weapon..."
All in all I liked it. 5 stars :)
UPDATE....
Those biscuits were delicious....but anyways....I hate Scarlett, if I`m allowed to say that....I just don`t like her, I love the book, but she annoys me. I used to hate Melanie, because she did, but than as it went on, I kinda of started to see Melanie`s innoncence, and I really just turned all my hate on to Scarlett....grrness. I want to know how it ends. I`m about halfway through the book... Can`t wait to see the ending!
This book...I just finished it. A very good book. The ending...just that ending. It was...just so sad...and depressing...it was definitely a good book though. Glad I took the time to read it, because as the guys in my anatomy class deemed it..."it`s thick enough to be a legal weapon..."
All in all I liked it. 5 stars :)
I read this in sixth grade and it made me want to move to the South. I was hooked, mesmerized, transfixed...even if I was too young to understand what Rhett and Scarlett were going to do once he carried her up to his room.