but in HP you'd have to be a witch
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"Im going to start a special secret cult~ called the special secret cult! sshhhh dont tell anyone!"
 | Solar-powered Flashlight wrote:"i guess i'm not invited either :(" |
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The book that everyone has to read... This book was amazingly moving. My dad came into the room right after I finished reading it. I snapped and got really mad at him because of "Gone With The Wind," and the fact that I was done with it, and got in a lot of trouble.
The characters in this book were amazingly vivid. For weeks after finishing it, I would lie in bed and imagine I was Scarlett - what would I have done differently? Almost everything I came up with was totally not Scarlett, I believe that any attempt to recreate such a character would be terrible. I loved how she wasn't perfect, wasn't nice, and was extremely wrong about a lot of things.
There were a few catch phrases that stood out in my mind. For example, an analogy about how, in her race to stay afloat, she had tossed over things that didn't really seem to matter, like pride, and how, now they were gone, they were impossible to regain. And of course, the big line of "My dear, I don't give a damn." Rhett annoyed me, very much so. In my mind, he coul not understand what Scarlett had gone through, to finally reach the desicions she did. At the same time, he was one of the most amazing characters in the book. Unlike Scarlett, he was unpredictable. The way Scarlett approached any problem could be desiphered somewhat like this: Never give up and do anything you can to survive. In the process, she usually ends up messing everything else up as well.
I will never be able to create a good end to this story in my mind, and so it will probably leave me constantly haunted. I have no wish to read the sequel that is written by another author, as I think it would ruin the whole "Gone With The Wind," sort of experience.
This book will always stand out to me because of its beauty and honesty. It is an amazing book. ]]>
Sydney
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review of Gone with the Wind:
"I honestly do not know whether to give this book 5 stars for being one of the most completely engrossing, shocking, and emotionally absorbing pieces of literature ever written, or to give it 0 stars for being the most tragic, unendingly upsetting, di...more "
"I honestly do not know whether to give this book 5 stars for being one of the most completely engrossing, shocking, and emotionally absorbing pieces of literature ever written, or to give it 0 stars for being the most tragic, unendingly upsetting, di...more "