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... fiction set during the Civil War, but I generally don't read anything that is really about the war itself. I liked:
Gone With The Wind , by Margaret Mitchell
Kindred, by Octavia Butler
March, by Geraldine Brooks
The Widow of the South, by Robert Hicks
These titles are more ...
Gone With the Wind and Outlander, but particularly Dragonfly in Amber. I get teary eyed at least once in all the Bridgerton books, they all seem to have that one poignant moment.
I don't cry very often over books, but here are a few I can think of off the top of my head:
Gone With the Wind - The bit where Melanie gets out of her sickbed to help defend Scarlett against the marauding yankee with her dead brother's saber makes me cry every single time I read it or see the ...
... in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, Count of Monte Cristo, Crime and Punishment, She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb, Gone With the Wind , Still Alice by Lisa Genova, Girls Poker Night by Jill A. Davis, Hound of the Baskervilles.
I always have trouble picking out my next reads...an ...
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Interesting conversation . . . I read Gone With the Wind one summer when I was sick in bed with the chicken pox. Being in Canada, I wouldn't have cared less who the president was, but let's see . . . late 70s. Carter, maybe?
I read Gone with the Wind during the Reagan administration. Really enjoyed it, although I never warmed to Scarlett.
I, too, loved Gone with the Wind as a youth -- also long ago!
Hi, I think the step challenge is a great idea (that's what I am doing). I have to ask in my ignorance if Gone with wind is as huge as the film hints at?
... order:
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen or Isak Denisen,
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell,
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton,
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee,
Their Eyes Were Watching God by ...
Gone with the Wind was my favorite book when I was in high school --- a very, very long time ago. :)
... much just given up on it. I like this challenge because I can try out some new categories, and maybe even finally read Gone with the Wind . :-) Good luck!
Category 1- Gone with the Wind
... who plan to visit Jordan or the Middle East.
Right now, I'm reading Trans-Sister Radio and thinking about reading Gone with the Wind for the first time.
... I've been wanting to read a good bio about Darwin and Sandydog1 gave it 4 stars.
From my library I would recommend Gone With the Wind . Long but awesome.
The Hunting Wind by Steve Hamilton
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Wailing Wind by Tony Hillerman
The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
Whirlwind by James Clavell
... James Michener books such as Hawaii and Caravans since they were so long. If I had nothing else to read, I would open Gone With the Wind at a random page and read from there.
... son. Oh well...
Very funny, the Star Wars comment! It reminds me that I somehow managed to escape all knowledge of Gone with the Wind before I read a great, dusty old hardback copy from a secondhand book store in my twenties. I knew it was set during the American Civil War, and that ...
... for my 3rd category - think I'm going for Pillars of the Earth, Anna Karenina and The Count of Monte Cristo, though Gone with the Wind might slide into a cinema category. At the moment only my earliest categories are defined because I just can't make my mind up yet!
... for life. Why? Why did anyone publish that piece of supernatural crazy rubbish. Clearly not someone who'd actually read Gone With The Wind .
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell - sorry could not resist :)
... Robbins
* The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Richard Geldard
* Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
* Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
... forgot a few.
Kristin Lavransdatter
War & Peace
Dr. Zhivago
Lonesome dove
Raintree County
Gone with the Wind
Grapes of Wrath
Look Homeward, Angel
The Rains Came
The Awakening Land trilogy
Friendly Persuasion
The Poisonwood Bible
...
rockinrhombus - Gone With the Wind is one of my favorites! I would like to reread it again some day too.
I'm about half way through Fahrenheit 451. Why ban a book if you can just burn it? ;-)
... read her other books, now. Particularly March, as I am a fan of Little Women.
I am getting the feeling a re-read of Gone With the Wind may be in order soon. I used to read it every time I moved, but since buying my house I haven't read it in 11 years.
Right on, MrA!
Does anyone remember the travesty that was Scarlett, the "sequel" to Gone With the Wind ?
Peter Pan has also gotten some sequels (I haven't read them, but I feel the same way as I do about Pooh & Miss Scarlett)
What next? Will Madeline grow up to take Miss Clavell's ...
geneg in
Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond (Sep 27, 2009, 3:21pm)
... beer night was a big draw. Still reading primarily Heritage Press and LOA. Met my current wife who talked me into reading Gone with the Wind , a winner, and The Stand, a loser. Read Asimov's Foundation Trilogy (mader no sense) and Childhood's End, an excellent read for SF.
40 My wife ...
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Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond (Sep 24, 2009, 11:44pm)
... out yourself), Brighty of the Grand Canyon, Caddie Woodlawn + other Carol Ryrie Brink, Diddakoi
4th-5th grade - , Gone with the Wind (meh), The Lord of the Rings, started Heinlein
age 12 - I Capture the Castle, the rest of Heinlein, started Asimov, Sci-Fi, Hardy Boys, Cherry Ames ...
... by Jane Austen is one of my favorites. I confess I did not try any of her books until I was in my late twenties. Gone with the Wind was my friend Carolyn's favorite book when I was in junior high, while I was deeply ensconced in science fiction and fantasy at that time. Moreover, ...
... one, in my humble opinion, is the best of the series. It always leaves me wanting more.
(Kind of like when you read Gone With the Wind . Each time I read it, I always want Rhett to turn around and come back down the walk, but sadly he never does. Ohhhhhhhhh, I would lay down in a dark ...
...
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (own but have not read)
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (numerous times)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (currently reading)
25 The Hitch ...
... Web - E.B. White
Lad: A Dog - Albert Payson Terhune
Anderson's Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Anderson
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
... Ayn Rand has written some of the most damning, immoral, ruthless philosophical discourses this side of a Sade orgy. And Gone with the Wind is a racist whitewash of the Civil War.
Speaking of Gone with the Wind, here's the "love isn't ambivalent" monologue from Angels in America:
http: ...
TO Kswolff and Prosfilaes:
". . . history was far more changed by The Fountainhead and Gone with the Wind th(an by) Ulysses." (#142)
Scrolling back I find I was replying to an earlier post by Prosfilaes, not the most recent one; it was to the above remark on the long term ...
The movie they made of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer was as close to the book as any I've ever seen. Except Gone With the Wind . And yes, Blood Meridian is violent and brutal, but, well, it's real writing and a real book and really worth it. I have to say I am tired of YA novels becoming ...
... only thing worthwhile is "artfulness", is fine. Of course, history was probably changed far more by The Fountainhead and Gone with the Wind then Ulysses.
"I mean, at one point in time Mazo de la Roche's JALNA series was hugely popular--yet nobody (except septuagenarians lapsing into ...
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
It has been a long time since I read Gone with the Wind , and it is probably overdue for a reread, so I think I will read it and Rhett Butler's People together.
... possible. If the system could record the clicks somewhere and folks could "best" that - instant Meme. :)
You could do Gone with the Wind to Dracula in 3 steps..
Follow Scarlett from Gone with the Wind to Scarlett which takes place in Ireland, just like The Escape from Home which ...
... and Peace, Middlemarch, quite a few Dickens (not all...yet), the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, The Buddenbrooks, Gone with the Wind and....I am sure I am forgetting some tomes, but the ones I mentioned are hefty enough.
... roaches.
I listened to Middlemarch on audio and loved it but would never have read it. The longest books I have read are Gone With the Wind , The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and the The Horseman Riding By trilogy which I read at a temp job. I was there for a week running the ...
... grab?
My mom's copy of Misty of Chincoteague
My grandma's copies of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn/Maggie Now and Gone With the Wind
Which book would you like your children to look at and immediately remember you by?
I don't know... Emily of New Moon maybe.
Which ...
... and look forward to the next edition, leading up to the latest release, Alex Cross’s Trial.
Currently Reading:
Gone With the Wind
Lady Chatterley's Lover
London Bridges
Roxana
... and
3. An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
Who are your 3 favourite characters in books?
1. Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind
2. Matthew Cuthbert in Anne of Green Gables and
3. Olive in Olive Kitteridge
Which three books did you inherit (not necessarily physically, but ...
1. America's Civil War
1. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier
I have tried to get through Gone With the Wind so many times that it isn't even funny. 2010 will be my year of triumph!
... intriguing: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby. Others some considered literary included Gone with the Wind and High Bottom Drunk. The escapist end is full of Twilight, V.C. Andrews and Stephen King and various sci fi and police procedurals. Not a book ...
... more aware of situations and surroundings.
Currently Reading:
Memoirs of a Geisha
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Gone With the Wind
Smash Cut
Big Bad Wolf
Gone With the Wind is a good read. I have Helen of Troy by Margaret George which is biographical fiction and only 747 pages long. hmmm! I shall be reading it for my 'What a life!' category.
It does seem a bit daunting, doesn't it? Well, I've always wanted to read Gone With the Wind . Maybe this will help motivate me. :)
...
1- World Without End by Ken Follett
(group read 75 book challenge thread -15 January)
2- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
3- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
4- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
5- Credo by Melvin Bragg
6- The Sunne in Sp ...
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Pulitzer Prize
1. Olive Kitteridge
600 Page Plus
1. The Mists of Avalon
2. Gone With the Wind
Anthologies
1. Inked
2. Strange Brew
3. Unbound
Classics
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Dracula
3. Oliver Twist
1001 Books< ...
... done with the discussion.
And it is definitely the longest book I have ever read. I've read Brothers Karamazov and Gone with the Wind , but this one was much tougher for me.
... was a quick read and I’m looking forward to the next one very soon.
Currently Reading :
Five Days in Paris
Gone With the Wind
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
>7
Is The Scarlett letter a prequel to Gone with the Wind ?
(Sorry - it's a cheap trick to make jokes about typos, but I couldn't resist)
I got Bookmooches today!
The Color of magic by Terry Pratchett
Purity of Blood by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
yeah!
I got Bookmooches today!
The Color of magic by Terry Pratchett
Purity of Blood by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
yeah!
... is in hopes I get a job soon and my reading slows down).
Total Books Read - 130/150
Books To Read:
Gone With the Wind
Five Days in Paris
Memoirs of a Geisha
Smash Cut
Run For Your Life
Four Blind Mice
... Plaidy, read all of Jane Austen's books including her lesser known works, read all 3 of the Bronte sisters, read Gone with the Wind and its sequel Scarlett: Sequel to Gone with the Wind, the list goes on...
Hope to enjoying reading your posts about your faves! :)
... are slave memoirs that were written by whites!
The genre reached its peak in Margaret Mitchell’s racist book, Gone With The Wind . Turned into a movie by David Selznick (who did consult with the NAACP on the script) and brilliantly acted by Hattie McDanile, who won an Academy Award ...
... earlier this year, and I agree that it's not nostalgic of the mythical, paternalistic ante-bellum period. It's not Gone with the Wind for sure.
Add me to the group of To Kill a Mockingbird fans. It's one of my all time favorite books.
... a
Tipping the Velvet
Sputnik Sweetheart
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Immoralist
Rashomon
Siddhartha
Gone with the Wind
Absalom, Absalom!
The Hobbit
Of Mice and Men
Their Eyes were Watching God
If you just want my top five favorite books, here you go!
Gone With The Wind - my all-time favorite.
Mistborn - this is a fantasy series by Brandon Sanderson. He's a genius. Read anything by him.
The Hunger Games - young adult fiction. Probably the very best thing I read last year.
Outl ...
Gone With The Wind is a great book to read. On that note I would also recommend The March by E. L. Doctorow it's a work of fiction about Sherman's March from Georgia to the sea which is talked about with such horror and dread in GWTW. The author uses heaps of different characters as narrators ...
Um...duh.
Gone With the Wind , ya'll. :D
To Kill a Mockingbird is the only book on that list (#106) that I would spend time reading, maybe Gone with the Wind for its look at the Civil War and after as seen from Atlanta Georgia. I actually lived a half block from the road between Scarlett's home in Atlanta (not Tara) and her sawmill, ...
Gone with the Wind was a big disappointment to me - if I hadn't had to read it for a class, I would have put it down after about two hundred pages. I also found Catcher in the Rye to be underwhelming, but I might read it again to see if I appreciate it more now.
... Children series
Lucia St. Clair Robson's Ride the Wind
Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago
I have recently ordered Sara Donati's Into the Wilderness and I dislike Philippa Gregory.
Pleaseeeeee ...
... Drew, Cherry Ames, Trixie Belden also. But for books that took me outside my own world...probably Wrinkle in Time and Gone with the Wind fairly early on (early teens).
Probably my deepest connection was with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I don't know why. My life was as different from ...
... Impossible to put down.
Irisrose I called in sick for two days at work to sit in my garden in the sunshine and read Gone With The Wind .
MerryMary I just ordered The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane but it's called something else here, I forget what. But I am hearing good things ...
For a classic how about Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell?
Fantasy~ The Graveyard Book or Coraline by Neil Gaiman I enjoyed his books
I see you have Memoirs of a Geisha in your library try The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evens and The Time Tra ...
I'm from Atlanta in the US, and it's not uncommon for overseas tourists to lament the dearth of plantations. They've read Gone with the Wind and are sad not to find it here.
... something after that. It was consuming. I have not read the last book saving for summer vacation.
In my early 20's Gone With The Wind and in as a kid I loved A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. As a teen and young adult Exodus. (I hope to read Amos Oz's bio A Tale of Love and Darkness.)
A ...
... journey to settle Oregon & California
Raintree county by Ross Lockridge is considered an epic of the early mid-west.
Gone with the wind is an epic of the Civil War & reconstruction in the south.
... takes an island fisherman as its "hero". I'm sure you'll find people who will argue that Moby-Dick, Huckleberry Finn or Gone with the wind is the great American epic.
Maybe the point is that US literature is so diverse that there is no single national epic of the USA that everyone can ...
Any list which puts The Da Vinci Code in fourth place ahead of Gone With The Wind is suspect in my opinion. But then I thought that The Da Vinci Code was a dreadful potboiler only written for its movie potential.
The English Patient
Ethan Frome
The Fall of the House of Usher
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Gone With the Wind
The Graduate
The Great Gatzby
The Green Man
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit or To There and Back
... in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 ...
... side.
These are the 3 Fiction Winners I've read and are still in my library.
March 2006
The Shipping News 1994
Gone with the Wind 1937
Quite a while ago I read
The Yearling 1939
The Good Earth 1932
Very soon I hope to read
To Kill a Mocking Bird 1961
It keeps ...
... by Doctorow earlier this year and I really enjoyed it. It was my first book by him and I picked it up because I liked Gone With the Wind . I'm currently reading The book of Daniel by Doctorow and have Ragtime in my TBR pile. I think Doctorow tells a really good story.
186: koalamom - ...
... ite
Jamie Frasier from the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
Jean Valjean from Les Miserables
Scarlett O'Hara from Gone With the Wind
...
A lot of John Grisham's books take place in the south. Carl Hiaassen writes about south Florida. Then there's always Gone With the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird.
... everyone loves that you hate are turning out to be books that I love! Austen is one of my favorite authors; I loved Gone with the Wind and have read it many times; Anna Karenina I liked a lot; and I admit to being a fan of Harry Potter.
*slinking away in shame now*
Not really; ...
... to read Catcher in the Rye - gave up; although one of my closest friends raves and says its her favorite book
As far Gone With the Wind - the only redeeming thing about good ol' Scarlett was that she supplied some good material for a classic Carol Burnett skit : )
I only made it a third of the way through Gone with the Wind ; we had a copy in the house because my sister and her friends had gone through a serious phase with that story. I couldn't stand spending any more time with a self-centered twit like Scarlett; she and Rhett deserved each other, that's ...
... like Lady Audley's Secret or The Romance of the Forest or other Ann Radcliffe novels.
Les Liasions Dangereuses
Gone With the Wind
The Three Musketeers is good. Any Dumas, really - The Count of Monte Cristo is my favorite.
I know you didn't ask for recs, but I hate to see ...
... a short story she wrote as a teenager. The story was cute, with a strong leading lady, two men in love with her (shades of Gone With the Wind ?!), pirate, treasure, and a happy ending. I was far more intrigued with the story of the younger Margaret, her correspondence, and the photographs—and ...
I've previously read Gone with the Wind , and never could get into To kill a Mockingbird - I didn't even like the movie - so I'm still holding onto the ones on my list. When I started Don Quixote I was really enjoying it, but now that I'm about 2/3 done, I just want it to be over. Cervantes ...
I've previously read Gone with the Wind , and never could get into To kill a Mockingbird - I didn't even like the movie - so I'm still holding onto the ones on my list. When I started Don Quixote I was really enjoying it, but now that I'm about 2/3 done, I just want it to be over. Cervantes ...
... having trouble with the classics, how about trying a modern classic like To Kill a Mockingbird or The Bell Jar or Gone With the Wind ?
What about Rebecca? Have you read that?
Here are my top 5.
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Still Waters by Tami Hoag
The Rose series by Julie Garwood
Seduction by Design by Sandra Brown
Texas Series by Sandra Brown
...
25. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
26. I know why the cage bird sings by Maya Angelou
27. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
28. The Purlioned Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
29. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
30. The Adventures of Huckleberry ...
... field. New author to me and I picked it up because it was about the American Civil War. During my teenage years I loved Gone with the Wind I still do but realise that Margaret Mitchell's portrayal of the Civil War isn't exactly unbiased. In this Doctorow takes the reader on Sherman's march ...
... Rochester (Jane Eyre), Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice), Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights), and Rhett Butler (Gone With the Wind ).
Can anyone suggest some others that might have broad appeal? I am specifically looking for characters who made their first appearances in books, ...
... in a rainstorm on the Isle of Harris last year!). There's heaps of others from those lists I'd love too - particularly Gone With the Wind , A Scots Quair, The American Civil War, Mark Twain, Evelyn Waugh, The Dark Is Rising, Empires of the Steppes, Alan Garner, The History of the Pelopon ...
... Dog in the Night-Time
18. Doctor Faustus
19. Don Quixote
2o. Dracula
21. Frankenstein
22. Gilgamesh
23. Gone With the Wind
24. The Great Gatsby
25. Gulliver’s Travels
26. Hamlet
27. The Handmaid’s Tale
28. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
29. The Hob ...
Gone For Good by Harlan Coben
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Against The Wind by J.F. Freedman
Run Before The Wind by Stuart Woods
Ten Thousand Eyes: The Amazing Story of The Spy Network That Cracked Hitler's Atlantic Wall Before D-Day by Richard Collier
... called Pemberly, which I knew would be awful, and it was. Sequels of books invariably are. Whoever wrote the sequel to Gone with the Wind (another comfort book) should never have been let near a publisher. And I'm nearly finished The Constant Gardener which, although not being a genre I ...
War and Peace
David Copperfield
Forsyte Saga
The Idiot
Far Pavillions
Gone with the Wind
The Little Prince
The Harry Potter series -only if read by Jim Dale
... read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)? Dune, Gone With the Wind , The Stand –each more than five times.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old? Anything by Albert Payson Terhune or Margarite H ...
... not popular enough to be terribly influential anyway. I suspect more folks are familiar with To Kill a Mockingbird and Gone with the Wind than anything else. I would vote for Native Son myself; I think it's a necessary precursor to all the Toni Morrison/Alex Haley/Alice Walker works.
t ...
Oh, how fun!
Books:
Gone With the Wind
Atonement
Cold Mountain
Harry Potter - the entire series
Food & Drink:
Pepsi Max
Water
Ice Tea
Salmon!
Fried chicken
Tacos
Gambas al pilpil
Tapas
Music:
I love music. :)
The White Stripes
Brendan Benson
Devendra Banhart
Elliott ...
... !~!
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
True classics
23) What is your favorite novel?
Gone With the Wind
24) Play?
Kick the Can
25) Poem?
Evangeline
26) Essay?
Don't have one
27) Short story?
Any by Joyce Carol Oates or Alice Hoffman
28) ...
... read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
Probably Gone With the Wind – that puppy’s in tatters, followed pretty closely by Rebecca
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
It might have been Bla ...
... bed, in trunks, and in random piles throughout the house patiently waiting my attention. However, in high school I read Gone with the Wind three times.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old? Probably the Bunnicula series by James Howe. That vampire rabbit kicked ...
... perfect except that I am getting to that age where it will soon be coming naturally. hehe
My favorite love story is Gone with the Wind and I read it probably about every three years or so and each time I just know he is going to turn around and go back!~! (but I do still feel the same ...
... perfect except that I am getting to that age where it will soon be coming naturally. hehe
My favorite love story is Gone with the Wind and I read it probably about every three years or so and each time I just know he is going to turn around and go back!~! (but I do still feel the same ...
... writer alive today?
Maybe Dan Brown or John Grisham
31) What is your desert island book?
Gone With the Wind since it's a long one!
32) And... what are you reading right now?
Fellowship of Fear by Aaron Elkins
I've seen quite a few movies based on books that I thought did a decent job. Gone with the Wind springs to mind; sure, they left out two of her children, but considering that it's a four-hour movie, I think they did a great job and it is pretty faithful to the book. Also think it was well cast. A ...
...
4. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
5. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
6. A Tree Grow in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
7. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
8. The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
9. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Both ...
... :
The Count of Monte Cristo
Don Quixote
Some novels by Charles Dickens (I'll list them later)
Lord of the Rings
Gone with the Wind
The Man without Qualities
Ulysses
The Bonfire of the Vanities
... Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
*22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 ...
... of Shakespeare - read some, but not others...
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - Reading Now
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 ...
... members in this group are widely read! I'd say you did really well.
The only one I haven't read that you have is Gone with the Wind . I saw the movie when it was re-released when I was in college. It was okay but I was never tempted to read the book. I'm reading Civil War as a ...
... Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Gu ...
#76: investory: Rhett Butler's People can't hold a candle to Gone with the Wind , but it's still well worth a read if you're a GWTW lover, in my opinion. It doesn't have that magic spark that GWTW have, but I did find it very interesting seeing things from Rhett's perspective.
So, I finished ...
... easily, and it's always the books that make me cry that I end up loving the most. Some of the books that makes me cry are Gone with the Wind , The Time Traveler's Wife, Atonement and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
16) Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig
Rhett Butler's People is a retelling of the wonderful Gone with the Wind , told from the persepctive of the mysterious Rhett Butler himself. Being the huge Gone with the Wind fan that I am, I could'nt wait to get my hands and eyes on this book!
...
... grabbed me and did not let go. His people and stories are real, gritty, intense. It sounds trite, but I recently read Gone With the Wind and for Civil War ear Southern fiction, I still think it's one of the best.
It seems Florida is almost a Southern sect of its own (or maybe I've ...
... the visualised landscape
Not necessarily. While Vivien Leigh is most definitely the Scarlett I see while reading Gone With the Wind , my Ashley Wilkes is no Leslie Howard.
... and my review is here:
http://www.librarything.com/work/819161
For you, ejd0626, I would like to hear your take on Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
For my next read, please pick something from my TBR books.
Favorites include: Outlander, Gone With the Wind , Angelique to name three off the top of my head. How about you? What kind do you like?
Mine would have to be Gone with the Wind and Pride and Prejudice. Those would have to be my all time favorites.
... Women - Louisa M Alcott
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - only LW&W
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasi ...
Well, if it helps any, I did get over Gone With The Wind .
... never heard of until I came to this website. It is The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall. It is sort of a re-telling of Gone with the Wind but it is told through a young black girl's eyes.
... Be a Writier, Books to Make A Teenager Feel More Human, and more. All great. On the Big Thick Wonderful all Summer Reads:
Gone With the Wind
Vanity Fair
East of Eden
Buddenbrooks
Sophie's Choice
Underworld
Henry and Clara
Lonesome Dove
Can You Forgive Her
I remember reading The Good Earth, Gone with the Wind in middle school.
Lord of the Flies? Scary indeed. I'm not sure I want my 15-year old to read that one anytime soon.
... the next instalment to come out. One of my favorites in the series is Voyager, makes me cry every time. Are you a fan of Gone With the Wind ?
... it as it was during my final year of undergrad and I was a bit lost afterwards.
Plus I was traumatised by the end of Gone with the Wind (I didn't know what happened. I realise that makes me the only person in the universe, but aaannyway). That led to withdrawal.
7. Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley
Had been avoiding this "sequel" to Gone With the Wind because I figured I'd have to read GWTW over again since it had been way too long but only a few of the original characters were mentioned so I wasn't too lost... It was good but at 884 pages it could ...
... Leo Tolstoy 02/12/09
053. My Fantoms by TheÌophile Gautier 02/13/09
054. The Graduate by Charles Webb 02/15/09
055. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 02/16/09
FILM: Straight Time (1978)
055. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 02/16/09
056. In the Dutch Mountains by Cees Nooteboom 02/18/09
I read Gone with the Wind for the first time when I was eight or nine; my mother was sufficiently pleased to plan an outing for us so I could see the movie--we had to take a bus and spend the night in a cheap motel because the bus back didn't run that late. Memorable!
...
Now look at the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for the 1930s - not many that the man in the street would recognise (Gone With The Wind being the notable exception). The James Tait Black Memorial Prize is a bit better when it comes to picking books that are remembered by the public at ...
You are not alone ejj.
And I haven't read Gone with the Wind either.
But I have read The Neverending Story.
I, perhaps alone in all the world, have not read Twilight, but I have read Gone with the Wind .
Carolyn,
Just to let you know that Tara Revisited is not about Gone With the Wind . In fact the premise of the book is to expose Gone With the Wind and other such unrealistic depictions of the South as the glorified fantasies that they really are.
... going on my TBR. That is one of the areas I'm very interested in. I'll check out the others also. I'm not a big fan of Gone with the Wind --didn't particularly care for the book or the movie (except when I read the book as a teenager i surely had a crush on Ashley Wilkes!). And now that I'm ...
...
jhowell: MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Andersonville remains a totally serious masterpiece. Forget Gone With the Wind . This grimly fascinating work of art is the real deal, and worth every minute of your time.
... the same category: my next pick is a book i've been avoiding for years - Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley the "sequel" to Gone with the Wind : i was avoiding it because I was afraid i'd have to read GWTW again to keep up - i just started and so far it's ok...
... the Battle of Culloden. But, overall, I thought both books were weak, but then I kept comparing them to Outlander and Gone With the Wind (believe it or not). :P
... think I ever paid attention to Les Miserables until it surfaced in my awareness on the basis of an allusion to it in Gone With The Wind .
... you about the lack of creativity coming out of Hollywood; but there have been a few that were successfully adapted such as Gone with the Wind , Harry Potter, To Kill A Mockingbird and Slumdog Millionaire was a good portrayal to. That having been said as good as the movie was I thought ...
#22: I did not realize Mitchell had written anything other than Gone With the Wind either. Cool beans! On to the Continent it goes!
I am glad you liked Garlic and Sapphires. I agree about her and her various personas, although I thought of them as a kind of acting job rather than the ...
They did it for Gone with the Wind ;)
... Mitchell, 128 pages (own). Until I found this book, I did not realize that Mitchell had written anything other than Gone With The Wind . Very similar in style, this short story was written when Mitchell was sixteen. I had been given as a gift to her beau at the time, Henry Love Angel ...
I haven't read Gone With the Wind ,
But I have read Moll Flanders.
I haven't read Lord of the Flies but I have read Gone with the Wind .
I've never read Gone With the Wind but I have read Feline Friends: A Cat Lover's Treasury.
I haven't read Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones (yet), but I have read Gone With the Wind .
... and cookbooks.
First loves include the Trixie Belden series, on which I learned to read with the help of my sister; Gone with the Wind ; and the James Bond series. I also loved my mother's old books, which she brought home when I was eight after her mother died: Pollyanna, Two Little Wo ...
Matilda
A Beautiful Mind
V For Vendetta
Persepolis
Sin City
The Wizard of Oz
Schindler's List
Gone With the Wind
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
High Fidelity
... LT's predictions are pretty good, though; they were right about how I'd feel about My Sister's Keeper (hated it) and Gone with the Wind (loved it).
I just realized I'd better finish that book before the end of the month to stay on pace, more or less, for the challenge.
Gone with the Wind
Prozac Nation
Fast Food Nation
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Diary of Anne Frank
Doubt
Angels in America
Fountainhead
Atonement
Beans of Egypt Maine
Before Night Falls
Of Mice and Men
Catch-22
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
41. Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1980s
42. All Quiet on the Western Front, 2005
43. The Waves, 2008
44. Gone with the Wind , 1970s
45. Out of Africa, 1980s
46. The Hobbit, 1970s
47. Of Mice and Men, 1970s
48. Rebecca, 1970s
49. The Little Prince, 1990s
50. The Pursuit of Love ...
4) Clark Gable: Tormented Star by David Bret
Ever since I read Gone With the Wind , and subsequently watched the movie, I've developet an interest in Clark Gable, so when I stumbled upon this book while bookshopping in London, I went for it! Unfortunately, this was basically trash, though ...
... 451 Ray Bradbury
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Don Quixote Miguel de Cerva ...
... some quality romance writers, unfortunately the market is so saturated with dreck, it's hard to winnow those out. (Hell, Gone with the Wind even won a Pulitzer.)
My two cents.
Put me down for Gone With the Wind , Pride and Prejudice, Outlander and a Julie Garwood Scottish highlander romance novel or a regency romance by Julia Quinn.
Gone With The Wind would be the first one that I would go to for comfort, but when I give it some thought a lot of books my childhood spring to mind, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, Last of the Mohicans to list just a few. These days I get a lot of comfort out of reading aloud to my ...
... The Stand and Firestarter
Those real (often slightly trashy) classics I read in my teens like Forever Amber, Gone With the Wind and Valley of the Dolls
Then certain much-loved ones that I practicaly know by heart - The Steinbeck 'funnies' - (Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat) ...
... needed the charity that the Shakers could and would provide to them. She does deal with the few black slaves in a rather Gone with the Wind way - they are just so devoted to their white folks and are depicted as being rather dull - but they are very minor characters and this failing, I feel, ...
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Exodus by Leon Uris
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
... by John Hersey
*1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
*1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis ...
... or Book Award)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Finished 06-02 (could also be historic novel or book award)
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Finished 06-25 (could also be historic novel or book award)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Finished 08-26
Murder in the Rue Morg ...
Gone With The Wind .
... Road (2007)
Middlesex (2003)
The Color Purple (1983)
Advise and Consent (1960)
The Old Man and the Sea (1953)
Gone with the Wind (1937)
One of Ours (1923)
Books I couldn't finish (I'm getting too old to force myself to finish something). They are counted in the ticker above ...
... Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
The Secret Magdalene by Ki Longfellow
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The Fello ...
And yet I loved Gone with the Wind ; I read it first when I was eight or nine and have reread it quite a few times. I get a different perspective each time I read it, too--like the time when I finally got what Scarlett saw in Ashley and how she felt about him, even though he was so obviously wrong ...
Sounder nearly did me in. I ranted about that book for a whole week, it drove me so insane.
I also believe that Gone With the Wind and Moby Dick are two of the most highly overrated books in the world. It makes me wonder how some books earn the distinction of "classic".
I still say the HP epilogue was written for a specific purpose: to prevent unauthorized sequels a la Scarlett for Gone With the Wind . And good for her!
... series, then Twilight and just started to reread Goblet of Fire. I am also really wanting to reread The Book Thief, Gone with the Wind , and The Book of Lost Things. I feel a little guilty, looking at my TBR pile, but the guilt is quickly stifled when I am submersed in a wonderful, ...
Is it what Tara and Twelve Oaks were in Gone With the Wind ?
...
Alternates:
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Inferno by Dante
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
Naked Lunch by Wil ...
Ohh, I love Gone with the Wind ! I'll have to reread that soon. :)
... Landvik - Tall Pine Polka
*Dorothy Whipple - The Priory
*Catherine O'Flynn - What Was Lost
*Margaret Mitchell - Gone With The Wind
Honorable mention: Linda Gillard's House of Shadows (read in MSS, 1st chapter available on her website)
Top 10 non-fiction:
*Mary S Lovell - The ...
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I think that Gone With the Wind gets overlooked sometimes simply because it *is* so ubiquitous. And it must be said that, by current standards, it is seriously non-PC in its treatment of slaves. Let's not even discuss its romantic portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan - those valiant defender of ( ...
Hi! If you have a recommendation please leave a post and let me know. Thanks and good luck. :)
» Book Currently Reading
... by Alice Hoffman
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
When the Wind Blows by James Patterson
MASS-LIT
1. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ~ 976p. {1/8}
2. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ~ 1472p. {2/16}
3. Shogun by James Clavell ~ 1210p. {3/14}
4. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami ~ 624p. {3/28}
5. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Pro ...
>>41 It seems that a lot of people avoid Gone with the Wind , as though it is nothing more than a cliche. That's always sad to me because I think it remains a fine novel and holds up well with repeat readings.
I didn't like the film of Gone with the Wind .
Yes, somehow I've managed to avoid A Canticle for Leibowitz. I think I have a copy somewhere.
... lived in Atlanta (actually living on land that may well have been part of Tara) for over twenty years and never having read Gone with the Wind nor seen the movie until I read it. Of course as I was reading it I was thinking how foolish I'd been to put it off so long.
Gone with the Wind is incredible ... I just finished it and really cannot believe I did not read it sooner. If you like Civil War era and romance (although it seemed much of the romance will ill-fated!), you must check it out.
Sweetsmoke is also excellent and does have a love story in it.
Pulitzer Prize Winners
1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
3. Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
4. A Fable by William Faulkner
5. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6. The Reivers by William Faulkner
7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
...
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
... strike>
East of Eden
Roxana
Uglies
Emma
Wuthering Heights
David Copperfield
Gone With the Wind
Charlotte's Web
Catcher in the Rye
Catch-22
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Shining
Interview With the Vampire
...
... look at my guidebooks when I get home.
PS: sorry, didn't bother to nudge as you've already flown off . . . I agree that Gone with the Wind --while excellent--if a bit of a brick to pack around. Bleak House is bordering on brickness too, but is also excellent. I would have recommended that ...
I would like to Unto this Hour, A short of Gone with the Wind themed novel from the early 90's.
I also like Jeff Shaara's Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, I have always thought that he is just as good of writer as his father. Maybe even better in some respects.
I would nudge Gone with the Wind because it's a great story that will hold your interest for however long your flight is and also for those odd 'downtime' moments whenever you are on a trip. For me anyway I am either frantically busy or absolutely bored out of mind with none of my usual comforts / ...
... a positive view of reading and the value of the written word.
4. Innocent Deceptions by Gweneth Atlee. This is no Gone with the Wind . A so-so story purporting to be a romance about a young girl left to defend her home (and her little brother) while the men were out doing the real ...
Lots of good choices there! I nudge Gone With the Wind , also. Have a wonderful trip. :)
--BJ
I would nudge Gone with the Wind . It's one of my all time favorites, and it will certainly last the flight.
Have fun in Germany!
... by Linda Fairstein
English Breakfast Murder by Laura Childs
A Fine Passion by Stehanie Laurens
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling
... by Linda Fairstein
English Breakfast Murder by Laura Childs
A Fine Passion by Stehanie Laurens
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling
... the earlier volumes in the series, Hotspur might be better delayed until you have. Bleak House is good too.
I'd say Gone with the Wind , while it would certainly last the whole flight, is rather too cumbersome to carry around :-J and the same for Absolution Gap.
...
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Sette ...
Reading the Pulitzers has never been a "thing" for me, but I've managed to read a few without trying:
Gone With the Wind , Margaret Mitchell
Tales of the South Pacific, James Michner
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Confederacy of Dunces, ...
I have hardback and paperback copies of some of my favorites like Gone With the Wind , The Little Women and The Thorn Birds. There is new edition of The Thorn Birds that I'm am considering picking up because the cover is awfully nifty, lol!
I'm also considering picking up new editions of Diana ...
... of Udolpho is certainly well worth having read if you like Austen. I'm glad I read it, but I don't think I would again.
Gone with the Wind is a classic in both the book and the film versions. One of the few cases where I like both and find that I can enjoy them near the same time. Name of ...
So, dare I say Gone with the Wind ?
The Rainbow by D H Lawrence
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L Sayers
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
... Terhune
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks With a Circus - James Otis Kaler
The Bobbsey Twins series - Laura Lee Hope
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
a big book of fairy tales by Hans Christian Anderson
Gone With the Wind
... hat!
But within a year or two I was also reading the James Bond stories, pretty much the other end of the spectrum! And Gone with the Wind , which I read before I was ten--I remember my mother making a special trip with me to see the movie, and we had to stay overnight in a motel because the ...
#127 whymaggiemay
I read Gone with the Wind so long ago I forgot all about it. Thanks for the reminder :-)
... I liked:
Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
I capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
The Lord of the Rings Tr ...
... word usage but we have not mentioned that novels that intentionally get the history wrong. The Clansman by Tom Dixon and Gone With the Wind are both examples of historical novels that have little if any relation to the way it was but have often been seen by the public as realistic ...
That's how I ended up reading Gone with the Wind over 10 times when I was a teenager!
Fun topic! I remember the first sort of romance book I read (besides Gone With the Wind which I read when I was in 6th grade for the first time) was The Night of the Seventh Moon by Victoria Holt. My girlfriends told me to read it (I was a high school freshman in the 70's) and I was then ...
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The category of “other†also received 9 percent of the votes.
Coming in last place in the poll was the infamous Gone with the Wind character Rhett Butler who received no votes. “I think Rhett’s sinister background and relationships with people of questionable moral values were ...
... Plays. But imagine them with a King twist which only Stephen King can do himself. Stephen King does Rebecca, Gone With The Wind , The Postman Always Rings Twice, To Kill A Mockingbird, In Cold Blood, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility Star Wars, ...
... and came home with a lot of books that will make it even harder to decide what to read next.
Gone by Lisa Gardner
Gone With the Wind
The Eyre Affair
The Time Traveler's Wife
Life of Pi
Wife for Hire by Janet Evanovich
S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
Echo Park by Michae ...
... then he scrambled things around on me. I thought I remembered them differently, so I went back and read...
21. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell again. It was just as good as it always was.
22. The Other Woman by Victoria Zackheim. Says "twenty-one wives, ...
I have 185 books out of 1472. But Gone With the Wind ? Huh?
... by Jeffrey Eugenides
6. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
7. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
8. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
9.
When I was 13 I loved Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Gone With the Wind , and Tomorrow when the War Began series (which is probably more popular in NZ and Australia).
hmmm I don't think I could choose a just one favourite book now but all those that I mentioned I loved at 13 I still ...
... demons and tries to run over FDR.
I remember years ago when there was all that hullabaloo about the sequel to Gone With the Wind being published. E.W. did the same thing, imagining what different famous authors would do with a Gone With the Wind sequel. Stephen King was one ...
... option to have more brought in if necessary.
I am thinking of giving Brideshead Revisited a try and possibly taking Gone with the Wind to re-read if I can't find anything new to take but would like suggestions for similar books.
A browse through my TBR pile hasn't inspired me to ...
I'm reading Gone With The Wind - can you believe I haven't read it already?? Can't put it down. Although quite a lot of the stuff (mainly around slavery/slaves) is a bit... uncomfortable... it's brilliant on how women had to come into their own and admit they had brains. Well I'm up to p. 600 of 1 ...
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Collector
Catch-22
Gone With The Wind
... in no order:
Company Aytch
The Black Flower
The Year of Jubilo
Widow of the South
Coal Black Horse
Gone With The Wind
Cold Mountain
The Plantation Mistress
Oh jeez, I could go on!
... some that are better? If so, which ones?
Usually I think the books are better, but two that I enjoy better as movies are Gone with the Wind and Forrest Gump.
... Bruce Catton is a great, great read.
I should add that another really great novel of the Civil War and Reconstruction is Gone With the Wind . It's a wonderful read--so long as you realize that it's racist, historically inaccurate as regards to, for one thing, the origin of the Ku Klux Klan, ...
I've just thought of another one - Gone with the Wind a friend of mine actually called her daughter Scarlet. Poor little mite, burdened with the name of one of the most willfully witless women in all of literature.
... of us to be readers, though, and I can remember my mother talking about reading books that were popular in her day, such as Gone with the Wind and Peyton Place, etc. However, my mother had more time and energy for that when she was younger. During my adolescent and teen years, her reading ...
... Civil War is pretty weak - I know about Gettysburg, and Sherman's march to the sea (mainly because I've both read AND seen Gone With the Wind , so I really can't say if she's being historically accurate or not. I'm operating on the assumption that she is, for the most part. I like the way that ...
... it up succinctly!
I was a precocious reader myself and don't recall any overt "censorship." I read Lord of the Rings, Gone with the Wind , and everything by Robert A. Heinlein in 4th/5th grade (and then read LOTR and Heinlein over-and-over-and-over...)
I do remember that in 2nd/3rd ...
... Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski and Florida in Poetry
Georgia -- Alice Walker, especially The Color Purple; Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Alabama -- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Mississippi -- William Faulkner -- especially The Sound and the Fury ...
I have a number of those, among them An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell, and anything by Jane Austen. I can't tell you how many times I've read P&P or Sense and Sensibility. But those first two titles are my mainstays, I suppose.
The person ...
Have Gone with the Wind . Don't think I've ever read War and Peace. Keep `em comin'.
... many a poor reviews and one stars here on LT, and I thus didn't expect much from it. After reading, and absolutely loving, Gone with the Wind ,I was very discontent with the ending. Rhett and Scarlett belong together, everybody knows that! I cried quite a bit at the ending and found myself ...
... over at the 50 book challenge, where I am actually going for 80 and need all the help I can get!
Finally, I finished Gone With the Wind yesterday, which is definitely long enough to count (!!) and makes re-read #5.
But the others? To count or not to count?
... pages!), more of a short story really. Entertaining enough for a Tuesday night, but nothing to write home about.
40. Gone With the Wind
I would have finished this sooner, but I LOST IT. Yes, that's right. I have never before misplaced the book I was currently reading...but there's a ...
... look at books in the adult section when I was in fourth grade. The only book my parents told me I wasn't old enough for was Gone With the Wind . When I finally read it in high school it was a little disappointing.
... ad.
I finished Coraline yesterday, and started Scarlett this morning. I'm really excited about the latter, as I loved Gone with the Wind , hopefully it delivers.
... in Madame Bovary
Lexy Ransome in The Dogs of Babel
The nameless bad girl in The Bad Girl
Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind
I wonder what that says about me as a reader that I dig these troubled characters.
How are things going with Belly of the Whale?
Cheers!
... .
Some of my favorite thicky books are;
Les Miserables--Victor Hugo
Trinity--Leon Uris
Redemption--Leon Uris
Gone with the Wind -Margaret Mitchell
Lonesome Dove--Larry McMurtry
The Far Pavillions--M.M. Kaye
The Raj Quartet
Texas--James Michener
Don Quixote--Miguel de ...
I alway have such a hard time making these lists, and this one was no exception.
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Michell
The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Honorable mentions;
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Lisey's ...
... day. I decided to abandon Moreta for the time being and go for a comforting reread, and I am now over halfway through Gone With the Wind .
I just joined the challenge one month and two days ago. So far I've read 11 books -- about 17%. Not *too* shabby, except there are three categories for which I have not completed a single title (I have started them, though).
I've also changed my categories from what they were when I began. I ...
... authors and should remain the property of those authors. I don't much care what Alexandra Ripley thinks happened after Gone With the Wind .
(Although I will give a bit more leeway to stuff like Finn or Wicked where the author is trying to do something literary with these characters. St ...
Some books I re-read all the time, like Pride and Prejudice, Gone With the Wind and the Outlander series. Some books I read years ago and loved, and I'm almost afraid to read them again and find I don't like them as much. I read Stephen King's The Talisman when I was in my early 20's and ...
... and Ivanhoe and Quentin Durward, both by Sir Walter Scott are some more that I would recommend, as well as:
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, andTrinityby Leon Uris, for more modern reading. My mother also recommends History of Tom Jones which she just finished reading. ...
... so I persevere.
Today I also read 80 pages of Shark Dialogues for book group like a good girl. Have not even cracked Gone with the Wind -- have never been able to bear the Scarlett of the movie, so am dreading having to read the book for reasons beyond the high page count. Need to dive ...
GWTW
... do
63. All Quiet on the Western Front
64. A Farewell to Arms
65. Cold Comfort Farm
66. Tender is the Night
67. Gone With the Wind
68. The Hobbit
69. Rebecca
70. For Whom the Bell Tolls
71. The Outsider
72. The Little Prince
73. The Plague
74. The Catcher in the Ry ...
... effort to plow through. She found it screaming funny and totally just. I found it annoying. She also is a lifelong fan of Gone With the Wind , which I like the movie of but have never been able to get past Chapter 2 and the Tarleton twins when reading, and Ulysses, which I try periodically to ...
... (which I shouldn't, because even though I finished GTSSB, I now have to read GWTW for classics book group. (That would be Gone with the Wind , for the acronym impaired.)
In the meantime, I'm considering changing 3 of my categories, to make me more likely to fill them: D-F would become Histori ...
I have to throw in votes for Outlander (and the rest of the series), Gone with the Wind , Anna Karinina and The Bronze Horseman.
Others I must suggest:
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz. Much like Lord of the Rings, it was published in three volumes originally, but is actually one ...
... I wouldn't like it, but I gave it a chance. The middle was okay, but the ending was quite awful. A cheap imitation of Gone With the Wind , my favorite.
My votes go to Gone with the Wind and Pillars of the Earth, both great, long novels.
... House" books & another book I read over & over was On to Oregon by Honere W. Morrow.
Recent good books include
Gone with the Wind
Kristin Lavransddatter
Poisonwood Bible & Animal Dreams all of Barbara Kingsolver's works
Conrad Richter's The Awakening Land trilogy
Ed ...
... - all these truly repulsive characters like Lymond and his ghastly mother, whom we are expected to admire.
I nth Gone with the Wind not only is Scarlet irritating but she's also incredibly stupid.
the Da Vinci Code do what I did, read the beginning and end of each chapter, then ...
Gone with the Wind
The Blue Sword
Little Women
Mistress of Mellyn
Touch Not the Cat
Below the Root
Below the Salt
East
Percy Jackson series
Mostly YA, but that's ok. It's my job. Strike that - it was my job. Old habits.
Probably best known for portraying Suellen O'Hara in Gone With the Wind .
Gone With the Wind
Anne of Green Gables
Trainspotting
Lord of the Rings
A Game of Thrones
The Historian
Dune
The Dark Elf Trilogy
The Lord of the Rings, for many different reasons. It's almost always been a part of my reading life.
Gone With the Wind , because my grandmother introduced me to it
Best Loved Poems of the American People, again, because of the sweet memories with my grandmother
Rocket Boys
The Right St ...
... setting fire to their munitions stores to keep them from falling into Yankee hands. (Margaret Mitchell got this right in Gone With the Wind , a book which, despite its popularity, has never received the critical attention it deserves.)
Sherman's war crimes would have been the March to the Se ...
... of reading as homework in 1st grade. She didn't start reading again for sheer pleasure until 7th grade, when she read Gone With The Wind . She describes herself as a reader, now, heading into 10th grade. I just love her mentioning a book and me having it on my shelves! Doesn't always ...
#143 - ellysium; I finished Gone With the Wind just last night, and I hope you loved as much as I did! I wasn't exactly thrilled about the ending, but that's problably just because it didn't end as I wanted it to. =) It made me cry, though, quite a bit. I wouldn't call it dry, myself, but sad.
...
I'm very interested in your reaction to Gone With the Wind . I've read it at least 3 times, but it has really fallen out of favor these days, primarily because of the portrayal of the black people in it, and the "glorification" of the ante-bellum South and the Confederate cause. It is ...
38) Gone With the Wind by Margareth Mitchell
Ok, I simply loved this one! It's one of those books that captures every single emotion you can imagine; love, rage, jealousy, pride, desire, despair, desperation, tenderness, hurtfullness.. You name it, it's got it.
The main character, Scarl ...
... I have also read My Sister's Keeper, a heartbreaking novel that could bring anyone to tears.
Last week I finished Gone with the Wind unsatisfied. Such a bulky, descriptive novel deserves more than such a dry ending, in my opinion.
I've just read:
Gone with the Wind by Margeret Mitchell
The Uncommon Reader: A Novella by Alan Bennett
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
I am now reading:
The Mitfords edited by Charlotte Mosley
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Still reading Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and thus far loving it.
Just started reading Gone With the Wind , and thus far I'm enjoing it.
... Kaye Gibbons book On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon would be a nice read with some iced tea. Or, that old classic, Gone With the Wind .
It might be possible to pair Irish Breakfast with Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, although I think something a bit stronger might make the going ...
I tend not to always think of Gone With the Wind as just a romance. It has one of the greatest H/H combinations of all time (who wouldn't fall in love with Rhett Butler?). But to me that book is more about a woman's (and an entire society's) struggle with the ravages of the Civil War and the ...
... The Blood of Flowers being recommended elsewhere on LT, which is also lurking in my TBR pile. And everyone should read Gone with the Wind at least once in their life, IMNSHO, although it could be argued that it's a little long for a group read perhaps!
... by Stephenie Meyer (Read 4 times)
4. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
7. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
8. And I Don't Want to Live this Life by Deborah Spungen
9. Breaking Dawn by ...
Just finished Gone with the Wind .
OMG, you need a tissue handy to read the last few hundred pages.
I cried so much!!
But I loved the book, it's a keeper!!
... which I adore. I picked up the first, Kushiel's Dart, when it was the only one out based on the fact that it referenced Gone with the Wind . I don't see much to compare beyond the strong female who makes everyone fall in love with her, but brilliant choice on my part.
... plays on Mark Twain titles, Finn (touchtone isn't working), Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher.
Another Gone with the Wind spin off is Rhett Butler's People.
I don't mind the phonetic spelling either. I was first introduced to it in Gone With the Wind when I was 12 years old, and now I'm just so used to it in the Outlander series and the many Scottish romances I read, it doesn't bother me at all - in fact I almost prefer it! The last one I read (a J ...
In the Summer, and particularly when I'm on vactation, I start craving big epic books with lots of characters that span long time-periods. Gone with the Wind was a summer read for me. So was Anne Rice's The Witching Hour and Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits.
... read Jane Eyre first :-)
>5 I do they 'buy (or read) everything by that Author as well'.
I read the sequel to Gone with the Wind (whose name I can't remember) and that made me swear of sequels of 'classic' novels. There are certain times when sequels or shared worlds make sense - ...
... books based on characters from other books:
23. Rhett Butler's People by Donal McCaig
Well...as companion novels to Gone with the Wind go, it was a lot better than Scarlett. It was interesting getting Rhett's side of the story, and having some gaps filled in. The characters just didn' ...
... Geoffrey Chaucer (as much as I hate it)
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Bible (whichever version)
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Helter S ...
... Geoffrey Chaucer (as much as I hate it)
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Bible (whichever version)
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Helter S ...
medieval - Gone with the Wind is on your "can't get through it" list? That is ironic since I just finished reading Rhett Butler's People, the story from Rhett's point of view which was apparently commissioned by the Margaret Mitchell estate. I tend to get sucked into reading these "sequels" ...
... set me off laughing, which was not the reaction I think the author was going for. The best book I ever chose for this was Gone with the Wind .
Good weather and fluffy books together will always be a guilty pleasure for me now.
So many to choose from, I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot!
Scarlett O'Hara - Gone With the Wind
Elizabeth Bennet - Pride and Prejudice
Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser - Outlander Series
Anne Shirley - Anne of Green Gables
Aurelia from First Man in Rome Series
Glencora Palliser - Palli ...
... if I were trying it again, I'd bet that Ulysses by Joyce would end right back up on my Can't Finish list -- right next to Gone With the Wind . I've started both of them two or three times each and can't get through either. Maybe Nietzsche could??? ;-)
... and scholarship, a comparison of that book with other books on the same subject, etc.
Brief example:
Description: Gone with the Wind is a novel about the experiences of a southern belle during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her numerous marriages, all the while she is carrying a ...
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Anne of Green Gables by L.M Montgomery - actually all if that series if it comes to it
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde again - whole series except latest, only read that once
The Founding by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
House by Ted D ...
... house when I was eight: Pollyanna, Two Little Women, Prudence of the Parsonage, Polly of Pebbly Pit. I also love Gone with the Wind , which I read around that time, but perhaps that isn't really a children's book?
Oh--glanced at the bookshelf next to me--Eight Cousins and Rose in ...
...
California - Dean Koontz Books
Florida - Duma Key by Stephen King
Geogia - Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson, Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Illinois - Happenstance by Carol Shields
Iowa - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Louisianna - The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn ...
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Stand by Stephen King
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
And, of course, the entire collected stores of Dr Seuss so many times I can't even count!
Gone With The Wind read it when I was 11 and loved it!
... for compiling the list. I'm reading Pulitzer winners as part of my 888 challenge and so far I've only read books by women, Gone with the Wind , Stone Diaries and The Age of Innocence. This wasn't intentional as I was trying to read books I already owned. Now I'm thinking of changing the ...
... by Harper Lee
1942: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1937: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1935: Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
1934: Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
1932: The Good Ear ...
... (1921-74), first published in 1966, is perhaps surprisingly the world’s bestselling novel. Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind , (5,032 copies on LT) which has achieved sales approaching 28,000,000, is its closest rival." 951 copies on LT
8. World Almanac "Having been ...
... un
A Wizard of Earthsea
Children of the Wind
The Other Wind
A Wind in the Door
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Gone with the Wind
Bears Discover Fire
The Wandering Fire
Fire on the Mountain
Fire Watch
The Fiery Cross
Foxfire series
No, I didn't, but tomorrow is another day.
TBPM has read Gone With the Wind at least twice.
... of the island and I need my own copy.
2. IT by Stephen King - I like to reread this at least once per year.
3. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell - because it's always very satisfying to read.
4. The Book of Wishes and Complaints by Zena Rohan - a long-time favourite and ...
Today is World Press Freedom Day.
Today's events:
1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
1960 The Anne Frank house opened in Amsterdam.
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first female prime minister.
Birthdays:
1469 Niccolo Machiave ...
OK, Vivian,
a soft lob to you:
I have read Les Mis. Has anyone read Gone with the Wind .? wink wink
oops...
scratch Gone With the Wind ...
I'm sorry I stalled the list...
I read Disgrace and hated it!! How about Gone With the Wind ?
... requires alot of thought and time -- which I don't have (too busy reading) but I'll give it a quick go:
Middlemarch
Gone with the Wind
Wuthering Heights
A Hundred Years of Solitude
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (I guess thats three, but worth it)
Watership Down
Mansfield Par ...
21. Gone with the Wind
Stars above! Scarlett is the most frustratingly immature and spoiled girl. I wanted to shake her several times. I've decided that I want to be just like Melanie.
I'm going to start The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton tonight.
Whee for being done with Gone with the Wind . I always thought that I wanted to be like Scarlett, and after reading the book, I want to be Melanie all the way.
I used to read a fair amount of fiction, including Gone with the Wind , but mushy over-dramatic books like that eventually drove me to nonfiction. I think I may have read Drums Along the Mohawk, but if so, it didn't leave much of an impression.
... Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, didn't think of them as romances. Silly me.
Here are a few more possible romances:
Gone with the Wind
Rebecca
Anna Karenina
Atonement
Doctor Zhivago
Fear of Flying
Lady Chatterly's Lover
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Reader
...
Still reading Gone with the Wind . 600 pages to go.
... I would read now.
I also read The Northwest Passage and, of course, the Steinbeck. Don't think I have ever read Gone with the Wind .
I went through all my father's Kenneth Roberts novels at around age 13 (I also did the war novels).
I stole Gone with the Wind from a friend. Well, not really stole, as borrowed and will maybe, eventually, pay her for it.
Also, bought:
the Cool girl's guide to knitting
The Cool Girl's guide to Crochet
... Lightness of Being. Started Pygmalion and as soon as I finish that, it's short, it won't be long, I'll start Gone with the Wind for my book club. Why do I want to type Gone with the Wink?
The Rains Came Gone with the wind Drums along the Mohawk were all made into very popular movies. Northwest passage might have been a movie, too
Life with Mother was a sequel to Life with Father which was a best seller for several years & is still entertaining today. Life with ...
... romance leading up to the Stuart uprising in 1746 Scotland. I must admit, throughout the book I found many similarities to Gone With the Wind (I have a feeling the author was a big fan of it, instead of the Civil War she has subsituted Culloden) and then I also couldn't help noticing a number ...
... leading up to the Stuart uprising in 1746 Scotland. I must admit, throughout the book I found many similarities to Gone With the Wind (I have a feeling the author was a big fan of it, instead of the Civil War she has subsituted Culloden) and then I also couldn't help noticing a number ...
Of Mice and Men is one of my favorites. Then again, I am from Salinas.
Gone With The Wind was a summer reading assignment.
...
Bible - 34%
Harry Potter - 17%
To Kill a Mockingbird - 13%
Lord of the Rings - 9%
Catcher in the Rye - 7%
Gone with the Wind - 5%
The Da Vinci Code - 5%
The Stand - 4%
Angels and Demons - 3%
Atlas Shrugged - 3%
US FIction
1. Gone with the Wind , Margaret Mitchell 4,885 copies on LT
2. Northwest Passage, Kenneth Roberts 158 copies
3. The Citadel, A. J. Cronin 176 copies
4. And So-Victoria, Vaughan Wilkins 7 copies
5. Drums Along the Mohawk, Walter D. Edmonds 80 ...
I did not run right out and buy Gone With The Wind after I heard it was one of female Americans fav book.
... something new each time I read a book--I've noticed this with Austen, of course, but remember especially the time I re-read Gone with the Wind and really understood Scarlett's feeling for Ashley, which most of the time struck me as irrational and irritating.
... announcing the results.
Men chose J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and women selected Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind as their second-favorite book, according to the online poll.
But the second choice for 18- to 31-year-olds was J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, ...
... be hard pressed to pick 10 of my favorite books. At different stages in my life I have loved different books. I also have Gone With the Wind and intend to read it, one of these days.
Gone With the Wind most popular in the South? I can believe that, however...
I've been in the deep South for 13 years and I don't anyone who has read the book. Maybe a few have a copy, certainly a lot will say it's the best book in the world but (most telling), everyone will have seen the ...
... any other book, but I wonder how many people have actually read it??
Being a native Southerner, I've always heard that Gone With the Wind is on everyone's shelf next to the Bible. (Heehee!)
... to a poll conducted with 2,513 people the Bible is america's favorite book. Followed by Lord of the Rings for men and Gone with the Wind for women.
I don't know....it just seems all so sterotypical to me. For the full story go here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080408/lf_nm_life/rea ...
... of OZ, if OZ is a classic.
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall, or even Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley and Gone With the Wind if that's a classic. (It did win a Pulitzer Prize for Margaret Mitchell in 1937.)
... name the movie title), The Book of Claudia, This Above All. So you see, these aren't run-of-the-mill recognizable like Gone with the Wind , but good solid, sometimes corny, more often surprisingly entertaining and well written novels of an era -- which I love. As my "handle" reveals, I'm a ...
... Proust
6. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
7. Don Quijote Miguel Cervantes
8. Les Miserables Victor Hugo
9. Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
10. A Tale of two Cities Charles Dickens
11. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
12. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
13. Little ...
... on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
TWO
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Moll ...
... understanding.
These types of novels are a world away from the writer who says "I love Jane Austen" (or Jane Eyre, or Gone with the Wind ), "and lots of other readers do too, so I'm going to write a sequel." Are those books any more than fan fiction? They don't end up in a Norton Critical ...
Some people hate that tho. I have heard people whine about reading great books like Their Eyes Were Watching God or Gone With The Wind or Paddy Clark, Ha Ha Ha because they're written in dialect.
... all of mine have been mentioned so far but here are my batch of 'I can't believe I wasted time reading this' list
1. Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell, I hate Scarlett with a passion
2. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant - I hated all the characters, not one of them had a redeeming ...
... worse are those, and they do exist, who call matters of historical fact spoilers. They'd get upset if, in a review of Gone with the Wind , you mentioned that the South lost the war.
I read Gone with the Wind in college, and I really enjoyed it a lot. I mean, yes, I recognize that there's a lot of issues regarding civil rights and such. But taken with a grain of salt considering when it was written, it really sucked me in.
Speaking of Gone With the Wind - how many people in this group have actually read it?
Sounds like Maggie has - but anyone else?
Kristin lavransdatter Sigrid Undset
Gone with the Wind Margaret
mitchell
Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
War & Peace Leo Tolstoy
Raintree County Ross Lockridge
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy
To Kill ...
I think during National Womens' History month we should all re-read Gone With The Wind to remind ourselves of the "ideal" woman we all know is a cruel and terrible myth.
... I'm a little put off by one Amazon comment that the father talks in baby talk a lot. I only wish I hadn't already read Gone with the Wind - one of my favorite books of all time. And I also already read The Fountainhead - struggled through it, I guess I should say. I think I'm in for How L ...
I'd second A Suitable Boy - it's fantastic and I loved it!
Another long one that I enjoyed recently was Gone with the Wind . I wasn't expecting it to be anywhere near as good as it was! And it does kind of fit into the family relationships bracket. (Though I should possibly point out that I've ...
... them back so I could finish them!
My mother read the Reader's Digest condensed books, her Bible, and had a copy of Gone With the Wind ; when I read that at age 9 or 10 she gave me a special treat and took me to the movie (involved a long bus ride and an overnight at a cheap motel because ...
... of Pendorric by Victoria Holt, which led me to her historical fiction written under the pen-name Jean Plaidy;
Gone With the Wind , The Once and Future King, Auntie Mame, The Catcher in the Rye, and all the Agatha Christie mysteries that my library had.
... and only have a few;
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor (close to 1,000 pages)
The Stand by Stephen King (1,143 pages)
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (close to 1,000 pages)
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (close to 1,000 pages)
I don't mind really long books but don't think ...
Hamlet by Charles Bukowski?
Pride and Prejudice by Albert Camus?
Gone With the Wind by James Baldwin?
The Iliad by Emily Dickinson?
The Da Vinci Code by Franz Kafka?
-24 detail Muse
I would agree with your comments above. Gone With the Wind seemed timely because it parallels what's happening in the world today (civilians displaced by war, disabled soldiers returning home, destroyed infrastructure etc).
I've finished my first book in the current events ...
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
An Interrupted Life by Etty Hillesum
I'm reading Gone With the Wind I'm really loving it. Its completely different from the movie, I would never have guessed how much of the plot was left out!!
... top of my head...
Hiroshima
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Fragments of Isabella
Rilla of Ingleside
Gone With the Wind
The Long Winter
Zodiac
I have to disagree on throwing off Gone With the Wind it is a phenomenal novel.
The book I thought "I cant believe is not there" was The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It was such a turning point book for me.
I have to agree with #16 I think biographies are very important ...
So interesting that The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat felt dated but Gone With the Wind didn't! I think I would agree. It speaks to how quickly technology (scientific knowledge) changes ... but how little human nature does.
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell for class. Not too thrilled about the 1000+ page book.
And since I've been watching the Tudors lately, I bought a few books:
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory.
Gone with the Wind covers Scarlett O'Hara's life from late teens through adulthood.
... vacation today and will probably not be near a bookstore so I'm bringing 7 books (one for each day). I've already started Gone with the Wind (classics) and Devil's Playground (world lit). I'm also bringing The Whistling Season (new authors), Arresting God (world lit), Funny in Farsi (me ...
... of biting our tongue on the question "How could fictional character write a book?" to confirm that she actually meant Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
... working on Saraminda and have started on a new book Devil's Playground by Said Yassin Zia. I seemed to have left Gone with the Wind at a campground so I'll have to borrow a new copy so I can finish it.
the good earth ?
the human stain ?
gone with the wind ?
Looking up your library would be cheating. Guessing randomly, however, is not.
... will continue to think about for days.
I am still working on Saraminda, The Sex Lives of Cannibals and have started Gone with the Wind .
... ect. As I grew older, she read my Laura Ingalls Wilder books & other books of mine that looked interesting. We both read Gone with the Wind One of my aunts was a school principal & she would recommend books to my mother & her friends would trade books around. I remember seeing Fannie Hur ...
... ones folks have listed that I have read any thoroughly enjoyed:
Anna Karenina
The Bothers Karamazov
Beowulf
Gone with the Wind
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The 237th Star Trek/Star Wars Novel
;o)
See, all is not lost.
Ohhh, maggie1944! I *loved* Gone with the Wind ! But I do know that different people love different things. I think I'm just sad that other people can't have the same experience as me reading it, if that makes sense?
xicanti: I loved The Three Musketeers when I read it recently. I just thought ...
... Trixie Belden, all of Albert Payson Terhune's books, Walter Farley's, then on to my parents books Forever Amber, Gone with the Wind , Taylor Caldwell's book etc etc etc and I've just never stopped!
When I was 13....Gone With the Wind , To Kill a Mockingbird, Anne of Green Gables, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Flowers for Algernon.
When I was 13 --
I second Gone with the Wind , other favorites Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Yearling.
When I was 13, my favorite books were To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone With the Wind , and Lad: A Dog.
What a lovely list! Gone with the Wind is up there with my all-time favourites. I predict you will enjoy that very much. :)
I plugged through Lord of the Rings and finally gave up halfway through Return of the King which is a pity. I still intend to get back to it. Sometime...
I put up ...
... me.
My goals to read are as follows:
Big Books: New Testament
Les Miserables
Gone with the Wind
Ladies of the Club
Into the Wilderness
Classics: Last of the Mohicans
Lord of the Rings-yes ...
... !
But we'll see how it all turns out!
1. Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig - Another authorised book based on Gone With the Wind , this one was a LOT better than Scarlett. I think it was well set out with the three parts, but I found the historical figures a bit much at times. It ...
Vanity Fair
Gone With The Wind
I'm determined to read Anna Karenina, Pillars of the Earth and Gone with the Wind this year. They've all been sitting in the pile for way too long.
My favorite fiction novels on the civil war are Widow of the South by Robert Hicks and Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
Gone with the Wind was an education to me, as an ignorant Brit!
... because I haven't had any time lately to read fiction!!!
I started reading romances about 10 years ago after I read Gone with the Wind . To this day it is still my all-time favorite novel.
My favorite genres are historical and paranormal. Some of my favorite authors are: Heather Gra ...
I'll agree with the posters who cite To Kill a Mockingbird, but disagree with those who thought Gone With the Wind was faithful to the book.
Perhaps because I read GWTW incessantly as a teenager, I was quite bothered by the parts they left out (including 2 of Scarlet's children). I will ...
I also vote for Gone With the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird, and will add Dr Zhivago, all of which I consider great movies in their own right. Yet... all of these books were better.
I wonder if part of the equation is whether one reads the book before or after seeing the movie. I don't ...
... also just saw The Namesake and really enjoyed it. I like movies that really don't change the book much at all. I liked Gone with the Wind but I didn't like that no mention was made of Scarlett's other children.
Add me to the Gone With the Wind list, but Lonesome Dove is tied with it. Two great books! I just re-read GWTW this past year and having not read it since I was a teenager, I was glad to see that it stood up to the test of time as I got older, and I still think it's a great book!
I'm in, I'm always looking for a new reading challenge, and this will help me knock off some books on my TBR Pile.
Here's the topics/books I've come up with so far...
1001 Books to Read Before I Die:
1. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
2. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
3. Alias Grace by Ma ...
... library, I read many different types of books. My favorite books of all time are To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, Gone With the Wind , Ender's Game, and Fahrenheit 451.
My oldest son shares my love for books. We're making a concentrated effort to read more books by Georgia ...
... North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
3. A Room with A View by E.M. Forster
4. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
5. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
6. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
I ...
In addition to my three gift cards to book stores, I received:
Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell to replace my lost (??) copy
House by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker
The Sports Book
Imponderables by David Feldman
Why ...
I don't think I'm going to read much more this year, so here's my top five (new reads):
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (4th quarter)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (3rd)
The Railway by Hamid Ismailov (3rd)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (3rd)
...
I read it and it wasn't bad, but not great either, I wrote a review here on LT. I'm such a huge fan of Gone With the Wind I had to check it out just to see what it was like. My curiosity has been satisfied, and I've moved on.
... deals. I did get a copy of Anne of the Island from 1915 at the last one.
Some of my other favorite finds: A copy of Gone With the Wind from 1938 from an antique shop ($6 I think), The Thirteenth Tale for $1 from a library sale, and, because I'm a Disney nerd, Disney's Art of Animation ...
... unable to finish was Little Women, and to this day I've never finished. In a similar vein, I've never made it through Gone with the Wind , book or movie (people always jump all over me and say I just can't get past the racism-- of course I realize that it's more complex than it seems, etc., ...
I would have to agree with ChocolateMuse and GeorgiaDawn about Gone With The Wind , which is my favorite book ever.
If I may throw another choice in the mix, I would definitely suggest The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. So imaginative, so heart-breaking, so good. A must read!
... Tale! It's a great book.
#14 - littlebookworm - The Age of Innocence is also wonderful!
#13 - ChocolateMuse - Gone With the Wind is amazing!
Wow! There are some great books mentioned here!
... favourite is Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte.
Argh, so many rivals are flooding in!
Can I please also mention Gone with the wind - amazing historical detail, flawless language style, strong and unusual characters, strong and gripping plot... and I also have to mention one I only ...
I finally found time to finish the brilliant Gone with the Wind and read Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress for the Reading Globally group read, which I quite enjoyed but not as much as I'd hoped I think.
I'm about four pages into The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier for GRTB! ...
I've only read 10 this year, but my top five would be:
Jane Eyre (re-read)
Gone with the Wind
The Woman in White
Wide Sargasso Sea
Don Quixote
I think they're probably in order...
... any of the other books referred to, and I really hate spoilers (this is someone who just blubbed excessively at the end of Gone with the Wind because she had *no clue* how it was going to end). This possibly makes me childish, but I just didn't want to read all the bits with plot from other ...
... tion
The Knocker on Death’s Door by Ellis Peters mystery
Beautiful Moments of Joy and Peace by Connie Arnold poetry
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell fiction
The Color Purple by Alice Walker fiction
Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman mystery
The Charles M. Russell Book by Joh ...
... Kay Penman
Mary Stewart
I'm going to work on the following big books:
New Testament
Les Miserables
Gone with the Wind
Ladies of the Club
I'm going to work on the following classics:
Last of the Mohicans
Lord of the Rings - yes, believe it or not, I've never ...
I've finished Gone with the Wind and will post my review tomorrow hopefully. Thanks for making me read it dbolahood - there's no way I would have attempted another looong book this year but it flew by!
ireed110: Could you review Norwegian Wood please? I read it a while ago and remember ...
I've *just* finished Gone with the Wind and should really seriously be in bed but had to come and faff on LT for a bit to recover from the ending. Which I now have to try not to think about cos otherwise I'll start blubbing again. I'm such a girl.
I've been pootling along with Attention all Sh ...
I finished Their Finest Hour and Gone With the Wind , but I think my other Churchill will go on next year's list. I got caught up in Shakespeare instead and am enjoying that.
I just started reading Gone With the Wind . Of course this time next week I will be saying I am still reading it. =)
... And it explains everything!!!!
If I could only have one book, it would be something really fat, like War and Peace or Gone with the Wind .
(Oh no, here comes those hives - must be a reaction to only having one book!)
... are we with long books from the 1001 list so far? Let's see . . . War and Peace, Lord of the Rings, Don Quixote, Gone with the Wind , Les Miserables, Infinite Jest, U.S.A., Cryptonomicon, Suitable Boy and The Taebek Mountains (the last one which apparently no one has ever ...
I've nearly read two this year: Don Quixote can be over 1000, as can Gone with the Wind .
But they're both great, so I'm happy!
... was totally surprised that it had a completely different cover (no Rhett Butler) which advertised that it was the sequel to Gone with the Wind and had a more of an old time feeling to it.
Strolled through BJs today and came away with World Without End by Ken Follett. Also picked up Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. I also bought several children's books at Barnes and Noble for my grand-daughter: Books 1 to 4 of The Magic Treehouse series. I was going to by the ...
... say? I'll start with a couple to get the ball rolling... I'll think of some more while I'm cooking dinner. Join in!
From Gone With the Wind :
Scarlet - "I think I'll think about that right now!"
Melanie - "Oh fiddle dee dee!"
A Christmas Carol:
Tiny Tim - "Curses on all of you! And you ...
I bought a copy of Gone with the Wind today that wasn't published by some dubious company that evidently had OCRed the whole text and not proofread it....!
... in trouble when chores were due. I remember being glued to it. I'm not rereading it though, it was huge and I just finished Gone With the Wind . Ugh.
I'm reading The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum and still working on Gone With the Wind . I haven't had much reading time lately. I want to reread The Witching Hour by Anne Rice next.
I'm in the middle of the American Civil War, in Georgia with Scarlett and Melly in Gone with the Wind . War is horrible (I know that's obvious, it's just that reading books like this remind you of it rather vividly sometimes...)
... Lies by Lisa Unger (who just happens to be a LT author). So far, I'm enjoying it very much. I'm also still reading Gone With the Wind and Enslaved by Ducks.
... and culture shock. Suggestions: Fitzgerald: Gatsby, Mailer: Naked and Dead, Jones: Here to Eternity, Mitchell: Gone with the Wind . Avoid 19th century academic specialties like Tobias Smollett and the like, or obsoletissimos like Scott and Thackeray. They can wait for later, if at ...
... new companion novel, Rhett Butler's People, which I enjoyed very much. You may want to check it out when you're done with Gone With The Wind . =)
I'm loving Gone with the Wind . Somehow (possibly because I've just rewatched the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice) it's reminding me of Austen, with marriage being such a focus but also with the restrictive social codes. It's just that Scarlett is more of a Lydia Bennet than a Lizzie Bennet ...
... cannot be healthy.
Also, I'm joining Scarlett in having trouble not falling for a certain irrepressible Mr. Butler. Oh, Gone with the Wind is magic!
... Butler's People by Donald McCaig so that will be up next...am looking forward to see how it compares to Scarlett, Gone with the Wind and my own imagination.
Gone With The Wind and Rhett Butler's People - I am reading the latter right now and thoroughly enjoying it!
... The Knocker on Death's Door, fun read, even if I did figure out the mystery pretty early. Now I'm just going to read Gone With the Wind by itself for awhile. I think it's one of those books you have to immerse yourself in or never finish.
For Go Review That Book! I appear to have had Gone with the Wind selected for me, so that should keep me going for a while ;-) On the plus side, I'm really enjoying it so far. I love her characterisation and evocation of the landscape - I just feel like I'm sucked into her world every time I'm ...
... Michael... whatever. And I just realized I forgot Inkheart! That really should be on the top 10, not just a mention. Gone with the Wind would be top 10 but it's long enough that I don't reread it so often as other books. Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy is amazing too. And I'll ...
I've just started Gone with the Wind for the Go Review That Book! LT group. It's really drawing me in to the world of nineteenth century Georgia and I'm really enjoying it!
I'm currently reading Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene. I've read Gone With the Wind before and I never tire of it! I'll be starting Enslaved by Ducks by Bob Tarte this week for our faculty book club.
... Boleyn Girl
http://www.librarything.com/profile_reviews.php?view=dbolahood
LizT: I'd love to read your review on Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. It's one of my favourite books as well as being one of my favourite movies.
For those picking for me please select a book ...
... sounding board on issues. All this time functioning as a loving mother, sister, daughter, etc.
Now I'm going to start Gone With the Wind , The Red Knight of Germany and The Knocker on Death's Door. Still working on Nine Tailors
... by V.S. Naipaul
Siddharta by Hermann Hesse
Forget Kathmandu by Manjushree Thapa, a history of Nepal
Gone with the Wind , a really cheap and nasty Indian edition...
I was given How to talk to a widower on the plane, which kept me going, then the same person provided me ...
... get through my mystery and fantasy pile of TBR, those big books get slow. Still, I'll finish one this week, then start on Gone With the Wind .
Next year I know I want to tackle Trinity and Shakespeare (how could Shakespeare not show up in the touchstones? I haven't looked further than ...
... John, 15
1984 by Orwell, George, 15
Brave New World by Huxley, Aldous, 14
Beloved by Morrison, Toni, 13
Gone with the Wind by Mitchell, Margaret, 13
Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir, 13
Animal Farm by Orwell, George, 13
The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger, J.D., 13
Slaugh ...
I just finished The Giver. It was a very good book.
Now I'm deep into Gone with the Wind . I'm amazed at how closely the movie followed the book!
Where is Gone with the Wind ? I believe it is at least 1000 pages -- its not Proust or Tolstoy but it is a sight better than It for God's sake.
Wow, one for which I don't even need to look in my catalog. :-)
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Mutiny on the Bounty by Nordhoff & Hall
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Miracle on 34th Street by Valentine Davies
So you're asking us to reveal the secret portraits we've got hidden away up in our attics?
Okay, I enjoyed reading the Gone With the Wind sequel, Scarlett. If Margaret Mitchell had written it, the character development would have started at the stage Scarlett was at at the end of GWTW, but ...
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the Wind , of course!
And another easy one:
"Here's looking at you, kid."
... by Colette
Goblin Market and Other Poems, by Christina Rossetti
The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing
Gone with the Wind , by Margaret Mitchell
The Group, by Mary McCarthy
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Heat and Dust, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ...
... but they are great movies and don't take too much away from the story.
Lord of the Rings was like that for me, as was Gone with the Wind .
And I definitely have to agree that Forrest Gump was much better as a movie then a book. I've heard the same about The Godfather, but have only ...
and for methods of travel:
The Lilac Bus
From a Buick 8
All the Pretty Horses
The Hitchhiker
Gone With the Wind
They're Gone with the Wind .
(Sorry, guys, trying for a literary reference.)
Where have all the flowers gone?
... be a never ending list!
The Bible
Various Family and County Histories
To Kill a Mockingbird
Little Women
Gone With the Wind
Ender's Game
Fahrenheit 451
The Chronicles of Narnia
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
Rendezvous with Rama and all of the sequels
... about Antebellum, Civil War, or Reconstruction romances 'cause the historian in me has no patience for paternalistic Gone With the Wind gloss some authors give to slavery.
Of course, you can't leave out Gone with the Wind , though not much is recognizable now except the street names.
My two cats were named Scarlett and Melanie from Gone with the Wind . As in the novel, Scarlett was (is) the boss, and unfortunately Melanie is no longer with us.
... looking forward to reading Lord of the Rings, because I hated the movie and I am unsure about Tolkien's writing style.
Gone with the Wind is a great read!! I read it when I was much younger. It's an easy read, mainly because it's a love story. Good luck!
... It really got me thinking and interacting with the thoughts in it.
I still have two on my list. The Churchill one and Gone With the Wind . GWTW is one I dread picking up. I've also added Othello to my list.
... from literature than I have from history books. (I'm careful to take it in critically.) For example, it is because of Gone with the Wind that I understand (one view of) the roles of carpetbaggers during Reconstruction and privateers during the Civil War. Roots should be required reading, ...
... Sparrow, Stones in Water
Colonial - Witches' Children, Beyond the Burning Time, Wolf by the Ears
Civil War - Gone With the Wind , of course, Ghost Cadet, Hear the Wind Blow, Soldier's Heart, The Killer Angels
... didn't LIKE Scarlet as Margaret presented her... so she changes Scarlet... The truth is that Scarlet has nothing to do with Gone with the Wind or Scarlet O'Hara. It's Alexandria's invention, book, story and characters.
So I don't expect much of this one either, or the future versions of Narni ...
... buildings. It was the Atlanta of Flannery O'Connor and Lester Maddox, the house where Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind still stood with a historical marker at the front, turned into a slum by time and circumstance and was occupied by one of the first hippie communes there. ...
... It's all the more painful for Lydgate because he has no idea what she's really like until it's far too late.
I read Gone with the Wind pretty much right after finishing Middlemarch (HP7 in between), and I have to say Scarlett seems far worse to me (her work ethic notwithstanding). Scarl ...
#123 & #128, regarding Gone with the Wind --the racism certainly reflects the views of the Southerners of the time, and the book is a fascinating look at the Civil War from a Southern point of view. I think what most people remember of the book is the romance. The ending is brilliant--it plays ...
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Such A Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Dropped Threads ed. by Carol Shields & Marjorie Anderson
The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
>122 cabegley and >123 rebeccanyc
That Gone With the Wind is racist and pro-slavery goes with its theme and point of view. I wonder why--and if--the book and movie should still have such a prominent place in our culture. I loved the book back in high school. I don't know how it would work ...
I finished Gone with the Wind in time for my book-club meeting last night. I hadn't read it since high school and was shocked at how racist and pro-slavery it was. It made for a great discussion, though.
I am now reading Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson.
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Farewell My Concubine by Lilian Lee
End Game by Peter David
Without a Trace by Nora Roberts
No Time to Wave Goodbye by Ben Wicks
I finished Middlemarch, which was a difficult but rewarding read. I am now reading Gone with the Wind and Around the World in Eighty Days (the latter via DailyLit).
ETA--I've read GWTW many times before, so it doesn't really count as chipping away at the list. This time it's for my book ...
... a tough but very rewarding read.
HP7 was a very satisfying end to a wonderfully imaginative series.
I am now reading Gone With the Wind (for the umpteenth time) for a book club discussion.
... would have to go way far back!! Scuttling around in my memory, a few titles hit me hard. It is impossible to pick just one: Gone With the Wind , A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and To Kill a Mockingbird. More recently I have enjoyed The History of Love, The Thirteenth Tale, Broken for Me, As ...
...
"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when captured by her charms as the Tarlton twins were."
Gone with the Wind
My brain is tired. :-) This one is a book.
Ashworth Hall Anne Perry
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Still River Hal Clement
The Kenneth Roberts Reader Kenneth Roberts
Driving Force Dick Francis
... reading. I don't think I realized just how long Middlemarch is. Add to that my RL book club and our planned discussion of Gone with the Wind (which I've not started yet, although I have read it MANY times in the past) for July 30, and the fact that I somehow forgot Harry Potter and the Deathly ...
Outlander
The Bronze Horseman
Pillars of the Earth
Gone with the Wind
Swan Song
The Pride of Lions
... #2 article doesn't include the text "ACW" or "acw" anywhere.
As a Canadian LTer looking at the tags of a book such as Gone with the wind , the tag "ACW" or "acw" would mean nothing to me, OTOH, the tag American Civil War would be quite clear. That to me is reason enough that the two tags ...
... ooh. I just started it so good to hear it's someones favorite.
Mine: One Hundred Years of Solitude; A Fine Balance; Gone with the Wind ; and my new instant favorite -- Middlemarch
... every book I read. I usually identified with the main character, which really caused a problem when I fell in love with Gone With the Wind . I mean, who wants to be Scarlett? And let a hunk like Rhett get away??? She always made me so mad.
... ie
After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murukami
Monsoon by Wilbur Smith
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Gone With the Wind , Les Miserables and The Witching Hour took me a month each the first time through, even though I enjoyed them. Subsequent readings have gone much more quickly.
Oliver Twist also took up about a month, and in less pleasant fashion. I would have thrown it down in ...
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My sister was named "Melanie" after the character from "Gone With the Wind" , personally I always preferred "Scarlett" myself and wished that had been my name!
However, In response for the original thread, domeloki:
I very much admire "Fuchsia" from "Gormenghast". S ...
... e...
But I have to agree with cestovatela and littlebookworm that some books should just be left alone. And that includes Gone With The Wind , in my opinion.
Of course, Rhett is one of my favorite male characters - so I'll probably still give this one a read. =)
(Sorry for the ...
... build interest in a book that chronicles events that you already know. I feel as if I could imagine Rhett's feelings in Gone with the Wind , so I'm not 100% sure this new book would add anything to the experience.
Also, after the travesty that was Scarlett, I'm suspicious. Even though I ...
... (free registration required for NYTimes.com). It's described as less a sequel and more a retelling of Gone With the Wind from Rhett's point of view. (I can't yet find it on Amazon.com)
The author is Donald McCaig, whom I've never heard of, although Amazon.com reader ...
what about Gone With the Wind ? To me that is a classic romance.
Do any of you have a favorite "mom" character from a book?
My first thought is of Ellen O'Hara - Scarlett's mom from Gone With The Wind . She was a minor character in the book, but monumentally impactful on the main character. I think any mom of Scarlett O'Hara deserves a moment of praise.
Fo ...
... But I decided to listen to it and now I'm on the 4th book. Much better as a story being told to you.
#6, I also hated Gone with the Wind , Scarlett drove me around the bend! But this was in high school and my friend told me it was brilliant so I finished it to see where the brilliant part ...
# 16
The Flame and the flower is one of my favorites as well. As is Gone with the Wind , that is one of my all time favorites.
For a book that hasn't been mentioned yet- Remembrance by Jude Devereaux mae me weep. I haven't read in in like 12 years, but I distinctly remember ...
Gone With the Wind . I alternated between boredom and disgust (for Scarlet's behavior) until Scarlet married Rhett, which didn't happen until around page 900, I think. After that, I was still disgusted with Scarlet, though less bored.
I just finished Gone with the Wind this week for about the fourth time in my life, and am reading Religious literacy: what every American needs to know.
... a long, tall man who ain't much for looks can find him a woman, too." Sackett
"After all, tomorrow is another day." Gone With the Wind
"When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter's mother in turn; and so it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent ...
... is far superior to mine. Her first name has turned out to be apropos as well. She does tend to behave like the heroine of Gone with the Wind .
Heh. Academic book? At age 14? The most academic book I've read would be Gone With the Wind or Pride and Prejudice. I tried reading Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee because the LibraryThing Suggester suggested it, but I read the first page and was like, "ah, yeah, I don't quite think this is for ...
... Queen's Own Fool and really enjoyed it! Are there any others by those authors that you have enjoyed?
#13 - I ADORE Gone With the Wind ! It's my favourite book to date, closely followed by Pride and Prejudice and Rebecca. I have annoyed my entire grade so much with random stuff from GW ...
Well, gee, I can't believe that no one has mentioned Gone with the Wind !
... up:
Finn Mac Cool
Queen's Play
The Coming of the King
The Daughter of Time
Timeline
The Lamplighter
Gone with the Wind
And I am going used book store prowling tomorrow with a friend. Maybe I should just stay home and read some of these books before I go buy more... ...
... might have been unable to convey through a factual account of her life or someone else's.
Oddly enough, I did cry over Gone With the Wind but don't usually cry over nonfiction, however tragic the lives and events described. People are very individual in the way they respond to books, but ...
Currently I am on rather a classics kick. I am currently reading Gone With the Wind , and have just completed A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by , I intend to put The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien on reserve at the library this week. I am also reading V for Vendetta in bits and spots as I feel ...
... do any interesting ideas come to you when you think of Suite Francaise in comparison with A Woman in Berlin and/or Gone With the Wind ?
So true, Cateline!
I wonder if there are other books about post-war conditions that could be compared with Gone With the Wind and A Woman in Berlin. It seems like most novels focus on war rather than its aftermath.
Pickled Pickle
Pickles In Space
Son Of Pickle
The Pickle Father
Gone With the Pickle
Fall of the House of Pickles
Editing to coax touchstones, come on baby!
Sometimes even with valid touchstones after you post, you have to edit your post by just opening the window, sitting ...
... read other books similar to it, and was one that I reread multiple times. With this in mind my "all-time favorites" are:
Gone with the Wind : I first read it when I was about 8; I have read it numerous times since and it caused me to be obsessed with the Civil War.
The Mists of Avalon: I ...
... was writing. Things really have changed all over the country, thank goodness, even though more change is needed.
Gone With the Wind is one of the books I have reread most often. During my late teens and early twenties, I think I must have read it almost once a year. I guess I feel a ...
Gone with the Wind (too many times to count beginning when I was about 10)
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Gone with the Wind (too many times to count beginning when I was about 10)
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
... avoid similar catastrophes in the future, because the vast majority of human beings are a blend of all of these things.
Gone With the Wind is out of style now because it gives such an accurate portrayal of Southern white attitudes toward slavery, slaves, and the post-war population of freed ...
A Woman in Berlin Eight Weeks in the Conquered City by Anonymous
compared to
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Probably a more unlikely comparison cannot be imagined, on first look, and granted it is only certain sections that are applicable in this arena. I wish we knew more of An ...
... Riply
4. Black Water Transit by Carsten Stroud
5. The Rebels of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd
6. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
That's it for now.. Doesn't seem like much, but page wise I'm sure I'm well on my way to 15,000.
... I was ever scolded/disciplined for reading a book was when I was supposed to be studying for final exams and was reading Gone with the Wind instead. While I didn't do well on my exams, I did go on to research a lot about the American Civil War on my own, inspired by the book!
My mom didn't ...
... have a hard time getting into it. Same actually goes for romance. I love nonfiction as well. My absolute favorites are Gone with the Wind and Ender's Game, kinda far apart as far as genre goes, but oh well.
I puddle up when Melly dies in Gone With the Wind .
Message 64: Creole54 -- I still have my original copies of Gone With the Wind (paperback no less!),Black Beauty, Marjorie Morningstar (my all-time favorite), and several Anne of Green Gables books. I would never replace them -- I like the fact that they are old, not-too-ratty, and well-love ...
i've got to ditto the above thoughts on sequels to ender's game and gone with the wind , and just say how glad i am i never knew there was a sequel to catch-22!
a couple of trilogies which should have died after the second book (or, the third books which shouldn't have been):
kim ...
... shoulders of other books count? On Beauty, a novel shadowing Howards End or Ahab's Wife Moby Dick or the parody of Gone with the Wind in The Wind Done Gone?
I recently heard a Robert Coover reading in a Lanaan Foundation podcast which really sparked my interest. The story I ...
... reading YA lit.
For example, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Daphne du Maurier and my personal favourite is Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (despite it's many historical inaccuracies =)).
"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, . . ."
Gone With the Wind , Margaret Mitchell
I agree kageeh -- reading itself is the comfort.
But I did think of another one. Gone with the Wind -- when things are crappy there is no better philosophy that Miss Scarlett's -- "I'll just think about that tomorrow."
... Are you considering "old" movies as well, or only recent ones? If both, I would definitely add Of human bondage and Gone with the wind .
I will probably come up with more later.
:-))
... Ten.
And as a general apology to everyone who unabashedly loves it, because you're surely not alone, I couldn't stomach Gone With the Wind , even when I tried reading it again after getting out of high school. But that's just me. ^_^
These are books I can think of off the top of my head that I enjoyed so much I was sad when I finished them.
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
North and South, Love and War and Heaven and Hell by John Jakes
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Centennial by James Michner
The Thorn ...
... and other stuff, you are not doing bad at all. Actually, quite the opposite! Keep up the good reading.
P.S. I loved Gone with the wind and Rebecca when I read them, many many years ago...:-))
My favourite classics at the moment are Pride and Prejudice, Gone With the Wind and Rebecca.
I have a whole stack of other classics that I look forward to reading as well.
I have spent a lot of time thinking about this today, and for today, here is my list:
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Beauty: a retelling of the story of Beauty & the beast by Robin McKinley
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (very tough to choose between ...
... men and women, although it also includes his hilarious "Pet Department." My favorite to read when I need cheering up.
Gone With the Wind . I remember I had a friend who was reading this in the fifth grade and the teacher took it away from her. I saw the movie before finally reading the ...
Yes, I'll also have to include Gone With the Wind . And Anthem by Ayn Rand.
I'm also adding On The Beach, since it epitomizes the cold-and-maybe-getting-hot era I grew up in. I recall reading the part about SAC getting nuked as I was babysitting in a nearby suburb of Omaha. It was very ...
I can start with 3, in no particular order. ;-)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
To Kill A Mockingbird
Gone With the Wind
I'm still working on it!
Guess that leads to another topic.... Movie first? or Book first? ;-) I actually think I read all these before I saw the movie... Eve ...
... of Little Women)
+ Finn by Jo Clinch (from Huckleberry Finn)
+ Scarlett by Alexndra Ripley (from Gone With the Wind )
+ The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall (again, from Gone with the Wind, but more of a parody told from Scarlett's black half-sister's POV)
+ The S ...
Stranger in a Strange Landis from the Bible, I think. Exodus?
Try: Gone With the Wind
This is a very difficult question --
toss-up between Gone with the Wind and One hundred Years of Solitude; A Fine Balance is another contender, but I read it recently and I have to see whether it stands the test of time.
... Love Harry Potter, though I'll never call them great literature, just fun reads.
One book I absolutely hate is Gone With the Wind ; Scarlette O'Hara was (to me) a spoiled tramp who wrecked the lives of everyone around her. I get into trouble for this one, since I am a southern girl.
How many of you have read Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind ? I just read it for the first time and I feel like I'm so full I don't know how to respond.
If you haven't read the book and plan to, stop reading this. :)
Obviously Scarlett is a detestable person. Rhett is hardly ...
... animals...
Santa Monica Book Group: Winter Winds Trio - Gone With the Wind - Sometimes only remembered for the epic motion picture and "Frankly ... I don't give a damn," Gone with the Wind was initially a compelling and ...
... I hardly ever saw my parents or brothers without their noses in some kind of reading material. The hefty sagas such as Gone With the Wind and other historical fiction hidden behind a textbook kept me from screaming out in boredom in many a high school class. Now I actually fear being stuck ...
... its taking a little longer. I have vowed I would read at least three major books this year. They are The New Testament, Gone with the Wind and Outlander. I'm also working on my tbr pile, which is getting bigger by the minute. I currently have twenty books in my cart at Amazon!!
... Glorious Physician, and Irving Stone's The agony and the ecstasy a novel of Michelangelo. I remember trying to read Gone with the Wind , which was my mom's favorite novel ever, and loathing it so much I put it down after the first couple of chapters and never picked it up again.
... thing that makes me proudest is that I'm ahead of the game for my book club and am close to finishing the 1037-page tome Gone With the Wind . Great book, but if you cringed at the many racist moments of the movie, you don't even want to lay eyes on the way Margaret Mitchell writes dialogue ...
I've read The Lord of the Rings 15 times. (I kept count - don't ask me why!) Gone With the Wind has been in my hands several times too. When the new book in a series comes out, I often reread the ones prior to the new one so I can have everything fresh in my mind. Some series that come to ...
I am not a re-reader -- only three Gone with the Wind ; Wuthering Heights; Watership Down and these I re-read a ways back. Probably read Watership Down 3 or 4 times.
The one book I'd like to re-read (but new books keep callin' my name) One Hundred Years of Solitude I would be interested ...
... some reason...I've re-read all of the Harry Potters a few times, usually right before a new one comes out...besides that, Gone with the Wind , The Great Gatsby, The Other Boleyn Girl and The Catcher in the Rye always bear re-reading to me...
Hmmm, big books for the year.
Right now, I only have two.
The New Testament and Gone with the Wind . I might try to squeeze in ladies of the club also. Will see how it goes.
Another I want to give a try to is outlander. I just ordered it, can't wait for it to come in. A friend ...
... of authors, all of them were historical. I also loved anything and everything by L.M. Montgomery. And I discovered Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell in my teens as well, 12 to be exact. So that book had a huge impact on me then. Other "girl" books that I liked when I was ...
... Speaking Peoples The Age of Revolution and Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill
The Tolkien Scrapbook and
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
There, I know I will read many others, but those are some large ones I want to get through for sure. After all, if we get rid ...
... be a lot, especially considering I've got some big books on my "must read" list this year, including our book club read Gone With the Wind . Eek! Good thing I'll be able to balance it with some quicker YA reads.
What have you ladies got on your reading lists so far?
-Jen
Gee...no one mentioned Gone With the Wind ?????
Scarlett, Alexandra Ripley's execrable follow-up to Gone With the Wind , is an abomination unto the literary gods, and she will surely suffer torments in some deep circle of hell.
... some more classics on our My People Connection schedule -- including Gone With the Wind , Germinal by Emile Zola, selected Anton Chevkov plays, The Satanic Verses (though that's modern), and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
I've ...
... allow ourselves to a theme was a "Winter Winds Trio" - Gone With the Wind , Wind in the Willows, and The Shadow of the Wind.
I've read online about others hosting a summer of James Joyce or Hemingway, but like you said, ...
... not hard. That's what I'm doing this January - starting off with Einstein's Dreams and moving to a "winter winds trio" - Gone With the Wind , Wind in the Willows, and The Shadow of the Wind. If any of you are in the Los Angeles area, please look me up!
Don't forget - you're welcome to ...
... Bovary
- Something by Austen other than Emma
- 1984
- Anna Karenina
- Grapes of Wrath
- Vanity Fair
- Gone with the Wind
Some books that I love, that I would love our book club to discuss:
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Tortilla Curtain
- Flower Drum Song
- Man ...
I really liked Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. I heard it described as "Japan's Gone With the Wind " and it did not disappoint.
-G.
Haylan - you berate Quo Vadis for his anti-semitism & then recommend Gone With The Wind , which is casually racist. What's the difference?
As to changing Quo Vadis in the translation, I don't see how that can be justified. Isn't that just censorship?
Agree with your recommendation of the Fla ...
... on another topic put me in mind of a film that I have always considered greatly overrated.
Does anybody else think that Gone With The Wind would have been a much better movie if it had ended right after Rhett Butler said "Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn!"?
... I have to say that I think my personal favorite might have to be Rhett Butler, perhaps out of loyalty to Clark Gable from Gone with the Wind . (or John Reid from Time Enough for Drums too, but I believe he's already taken).
Oh, and I was oddly very attracted to Vermeer from A Girl With a Pe ...
Hello everyone...My first historical fiction book was Gone with the Wind , which I read for the first time 10 years ago, and have re-read many times since. That being said, I didn't find myself itching to find out more about the time period in that book as I did after I read The Other Boleyn Girl ...
... A Tree Grows in Brooklyn every few would bat an eyelid at the anti-semitism, in the same way very few would at slavery in Gone With The Wind . I'm not saying readers were rabidly anti-semitic or racist, but these attitudes existed on a level within society then which they don't now.
Does ...
OK, this may cause a firestorm, but I just couldn't abide Gone with the Wind . In fact, I stopped reading it after chapter 3, I think, and never picked it back up again. Didn't care much for the movie, either. (I know, I'm a philistine.)
Also, didn't like the later romance novels of Kathle ...
... first. Only when she was happy with the ending did she go back and start writing the beginning. She even did that with Gone with the Wind . Although it's not for everyone, you might consider trying that approach to see if it works for you.
Gah, I've tried to read Gone with the Wind twice, once as a teen and again as an adult. Each time I made it to approximately the half way point. The first time it was a library book, so I was gentle, but the second time I did throw it across the room regardless of my lack of ownership.
My ...
kageeh ~ I tried to read Gone with the Wind when I was only in my late teens. It was my mother's favorite novel, right up there with Forever Amber and Dear and Glorious Physician (I didn't like Amber either, though I did enjoy Dear and Glorious). And I am still waiting for my knight, though ...
Storeetllr -- Gone With the Wind is wonderful if you read at the right time in life, preferably when you are young, relatively innocent, and convinced the knight on a white horse is in your future. Once cynicism sets in, the book is doomed. The first time I saw the movie, I cried so much my ...
... Map of the World by Jane Hamilton (an Oprah book).
Other (non-classic) books that I simply couldn't finish were Gone with the Wind (by the end of the second chapter, all I wanted was to slap Scarlett, the little twit, and toss the book in the trash), The Corrections (another Oprah ...
... an international perspective or a non-US national perspective the idea probably wouldn't work. Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is I believe in the public domain in Australia but is still under copyright in the US. The UK, which is where you appear to be living, is also life+70.
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... Crane's The Red Badge of Courage are testimony to the horror of war. Sentimental souls read Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind or John Jake's North and South trilogy. The battle of Gettysburg is the focus of Michael Shaara's gripping The Killer Angels (beware of his son's ...
... not quite as old or quite as classic as Gone with the Wind), but have to admit that when I read it a long (long) time ago, Gone with the Wind didn't quite do it for me. But I think you'll find the two stories have a lot of parallels.
Oh, I never posted mine!
My fave would have to be Gone with the Wind . It's a popular one and not an obscure novel that no one knows about... but it's an amazing literary work depicting the perseverance through the most terrifying times. Sure, it's laced with romance (what woman wouldn't find Mr ...
re 'speaking Mitchell' - don't you think it's more a case of 'watching Selznick' (or Clark Gable)? I've read Gone with the wind but never seen the film - I suspect I'm in a very tiny minority there, and that the majority by far are the other way around. Whereas with Finnegans Wake (no ...
