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On the one hand, the writing is often terrific. Some of the characters – Scarlett and Rhett, at least – are fully realized and complex, and admirable in their unlikeableness. A fictional character who isn't likeable, isn't meant to be likeable, and still ends up someone a reader is willing to spend time with – that's rare. (Wait, Scarlett, that's your sister's … never mind.) One of the in its way most chilling moments I've read or listened to in ...more
On the one hand, the writing is often terrific. Some of the characters – Scarlett and Rhett, at least – are fully realized and complex, and admirable in their unlikeableness. A fictional character who isn't likeable, isn't meant to be likeable, and still ends up someone a reader is willing to spend time with – that's rare. (Wait, Scarlett, that's your sister's … never mind.) One of the in its way most chilling moments I've read or listened to in ...more
Oh. my. god. This book was horrible! The story itself was gripping, but I've never been one to stand idly by while some foolish person unknowingly ruins her life again and again and again and that, my friends, is Scarlett O'Hara's greatest talent. When I read Jude the Obscure several years ago, I hesitated to turn page after page, lest I discover what undeserved ill should befall him next. In GWTW, Scarlett brings every bit of misfortune upon herself and the poor thing never even realizes it. No
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