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tahnif 's review for:
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
DNF at 77%. I listened to 38 hours of this audiobook and now I need botox to get rid of my frown lines.
Scarlett is manipulative, hateful, bigoted, "shallow and shrewd", and racism and hypocrisy are rampant. I hoped this was satirical or attempting an accurate representation of racial views of Southern whites during and after the civil war, but the slaves and freed Black folks are depicted as monsters, or at best loyal idiots who call themselves Confederates, and it gets worse as the book goes on. I know this was written in the '30s but there is no way the author could have encountered a Black person even once in her life and written them all this way.
I just couldn't listen to one more cringe-inducing second.
Scarlett is manipulative, hateful, bigoted, "shallow and shrewd", and racism and hypocrisy are rampant. I hoped this was satirical or attempting an accurate representation of racial views of Southern whites during and after the civil war, but the slaves and freed Black folks are depicted as monsters, or at best loyal idiots who call themselves Confederates, and it gets worse as the book goes on. I know this was written in the '30s but there is no way the author could have encountered a Black person even once in her life and written them all this way.
I just couldn't listen to one more cringe-inducing second.