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Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

Start date: February 1, 2015

Finish date: February 10, 2015

Discussion: . Week 1: More Than 500 Pages

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. Week 1: More Than 500 Pages

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Dec 21, 2014 misplacedselchie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: historical-fiction, literaure-fiction, romance, quotable, fiction, classics, 2015-reading-challenge, books-that-hurt-the-feels, favorite-characters-die, america

Look, I finally go around to at least rating this! I have a deep seated love-hate relationship with this book.

I love the writing. Margaret Mitchell writes some of the most beautiful and descriptive prose I have read. The characters came to life before my eyes and I found myself caught up in a whirlwind that was Georgia during and after the Civil War. And Rhys, oh Rhys...

Now...the ending. I hated the ending. I couldn't believe it was over. After all that and just...that kind of ending? It wasn't ...more

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Jul 25, 2011 Renee rated it liked it · review of another edition

A very well-written novel. Mitchell is masterful at character development and deepens characters with unexpected reactions as her larger-than-life plot unfolds.

I would have given more stars, but the novel is littered with blatent racial descrimination, which was distracting for me as a 21st Century reader. I understand that the book was written at a different time, and probably offers valuable insight into the thought process of white Southerners living through the Civil War and Reconstruction. ...more

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