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UPDATED REVIEW January 2012
Book on CD performed by Linda Stephens
5*****
The first time I read this Pulitzer winner was when I was in high school(circa 1967). The movie had just been re-released and my best friend and I saw it about 8 times. She still had the best plot description I've ever heard: "This is the story of Rhett Butler who loves Scarlett O'Hara, who loves Ashley Wilkes, who loves Melanie Hamilton, who loves everyone, including the town tart Belle Watling, who loves Rhett Butler, who l ...more
Book on CD performed by Linda Stephens
5*****
The first time I read this Pulitzer winner was when I was in high school(circa 1967). The movie had just been re-released and my best friend and I saw it about 8 times. She still had the best plot description I've ever heard: "This is the story of Rhett Butler who loves Scarlett O'Hara, who loves Ashley Wilkes, who loves Melanie Hamilton, who loves everyone, including the town tart Belle Watling, who loves Rhett Butler, who l ...more
Holy crap, what a book. A great history lesson, a novel of love, hate, betrayal, and loss. Set before, during, and after the (not-so) Civil War, filled with memorable characters, this great novel, like any great story, draws you in and doesn't let go. I cared about these characters, even Scarlett O'Hara, whose selfish ass I was waiting for someone to kick. This is one of the great novels of 20th-century literature. Read it. Now. You'll thank me later.
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Sep 02, 2009
Shan ~A~
marked it as to-read
Feb 18, 2010
Amelia
marked it as to-read-interesting
Shelves:
classics,
do-not-own,
white,
pub1900-1949,
bookstobuylist,
moldy-books,
longest-single-books
