Gone with the Wind in Classics Without All the Class

Aug 02, 2011 Jeane rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Finally done! I think this is the longest audio book I have ever listened to! This book was so long and so full that I will have to break it up into five parts in order to review it. The first part was from the beginning until the occupation of Atlanta. I liked the book and all but I hated Scarlett. She was the most obnoxious annoying little twit. I understand that it was the culture, but I hated all the women, they were so girly, and annoying. So of them were smart, but most of them were proud Finally done! I think this is the longest audio book I have ever listened to! This book was so long and so full that I will have to break it up into five parts in order to review it. The first part was from the beginning until the occupation of Atlanta. I liked the book and all but I hated Scarlett. She was the most obnoxious annoying little twit. I understand that it was the culture, but I hated all the women, they were so girly, and annoying. So of them were smart, but most of them were proud to be ignorant, including Scarlett. Seriously, the girl needed to read "He's just not that into you", the second part I am going to review begins during the invasion of Atlanta and goes up until Scarlett moves back to Atlanta. Everything from having to help Melony give birth to having to take charge of having to escape after Rhett gets them a horse and wagon, I was damn proud of Scarlett. That's the kind of woman that I had always previously believed I was going to read about. Not a scared, whiny,love sick twit! Scarlett stays in my good graces the entire time that she is trying to restore Terra. The next part of the story is after she marries Frank, I didn't like that she married Frank but I understood why she did it, and more then anything I really respected her to buy her own business. She didn't want to to have to depend on a man so she bought her own business! I loved that! I really respected her and hated the way the rest of the town treated her because of it. The next part was from when she married Rhett until the end of the novel. I hated this last part of the novel, maybe that's why it took me so long to finish the book. Scarlett went right back to being everything I hated in a woman, obsessed with expensive things such as cloths and stupid crap like that. She was being stupid too. So the book really didn't end well for me. I liked the parts where Scarlett showed what a strong woman she could be and she was doing without being dependent on a man. Those are the part of the novel I liked. ...more

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May 04, 2011 Sandra Heinzman rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, best-seller-fiction, historical-fiction, classics, saga

Just finished this wonderful book, about 48 hrs via Audible. First of all, it's the BEST audio book I've ever listened to. Second, it's in my top five favorite books of all time. I read it 45 years ago and it was even better now. And although the movie is wonderful, it doesn't compare to the book. The movie left out a bunch of stuff. Yes, the book (or characters in it) made racist remarks and used the "n" word a lt, but it was reflective of the time. I have the book Scarlett, so I guess at some ...more

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