Customer Reviews
My All Time Favourite Book I Hope It Will Be Yours Too - By: Netty, 18 Oct 2007 
From being 10 years of age this has always been my favourite novel. What a wonderful imagination Margaret Mitchell had. The story is full of wonderment & you cannot help but adore alll the characters, especiallly Mamma & even Ashley although he is spineless!!! Margaret Mitchell makes you see the good in every character in this novel & reallly does make you keep reading, & looking for the baddie. You only wish the novel ended on a happy note but I guess that is where your imagination kicks in. This book holds such happy memories for me & I hope it will for you too. I dare you to have a couple of duvet days & a box of chocolates & with this novel you will be in seventh heaven. Go on I dare you spoil yourself & I guarantee this book will never ever leave your memory.
Beautiful piece of art! - By: , 07 Jul 1999 When I look back on my sophomore year of high school, I will remember it as the year I read Gone With the Wind, & became hooked. I have thought about it everyday since I started it. I adore this story. The descriptions in this book will take your breath away. Once when she was back at Tara, in the dead of winter, I looked up & was shocked that the sun was shining, & there was food downstairs in the refrigerator. It will literallly sweep you in. I read it in September, in a little less than a week. I didn't read it as a challlenge or anything. It was actuallly a "rebelling" act. My mom hates the story line because she doesn't like how Southerners "won't let the war die." Her saying how much she hated it totallly backfired because it only made me want to read it more so I could see what was so bad about it. Then I fell in love with it. When I re-read some of the dialogue, especiallly that at the end of the book, between Scarlett & Rhett, my heart positively aches. The language is so beautiful. I cried for an hour after I finished it. The ending is absolutely tragic, but there's no other way it could've ended & been as good. I don't understand how anyone can not like it. The Southern backdrop during the Civil War was a necessity to the essence of the story. I know slavery was one of America's greatest atrocities, but that's not what this book is about. It is the story of a woman trying to save herself & her home, & in the process, ruining the love of one of the most dashing, white knights of alll fiction because of her only-human downfallls-greed, fear & lust.
I loved Scarlett's character. She was exactly as Rhett described-a brave, frightened, insensitive, bull-headed child. She did try to be good, & then something would happen to scare her, so she'd get mean again. I loved Melanie, too. I want to be a friend like she was. She was good, but not goody-goody. She loved people fiercely, as Scarlett wanted things fiercely. She stood by her beloved friend to the bitter end, even though she knew Scarlett had betrayed her. Rhett was such an absolutely wonderful person. He only couldn't show it to the everyday Scarlett-hardened & greedy-because she would think him weak. He was only tender & loving when she was in fear. I want to meet someone like him-I just hope I don't act like Scarlett! The characters were so human, I loved them alll. Everyone should read this book. It is such a beautifully-written masterpiece. It's my favorite.
Not bad. - By: , 06 Jul 1999 
Not a bad novel for a first writer. It could almost be a classic except for a few points - a) it's unecessarily long & could have used more editing; b) the second half is weak & not very interesting; c) it's description of Reconstruction is very one-sided & half-correct & d)it's too racist. Other than that, it's not bad.
This book is wonderful. - By: , 03 Jul 1999 Though I read this when I was 11, a few months ago, I enjoyed it. I read one hundred pages a night & I couldn't stop until I finished it. I hope that more people enjoy this book as well.
Spectactular! - By: , 03 Jul 1999 It never got boring. Every page was exciting. The character of Scarlet O'Hara is one that will be your favorite forever. All of her imperfections just make you love her more. It was one of those books that you wish wouldn't have ended, even though it is well over one thousand pages long. It is almost sad to think that no other book, in my mind, will ever live up to Gone With the Wind.
