chrisnin64 's review for:

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

4.0

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Well, my long journey with this tome is finally finished. I was hovering between four and five stars. In the end, I really really liked it and I am glad I read it but I do not think it was one of the best books I've ever read. Frequently in the beginning, Mitchell spends a lot of time doing exposition that I found boring because there wasn't much payoff to it. Once Scarlett and co. got to Atlanta and the story picked up, it was hard to put down. Things really kickoff once Atlanta is burned and from there I had to find out how it ended. A very tragic ending that verged on melodrama because bad things just kept happening, but it worked. I still don't like Scarlett, but it was fun to take this journey with her.