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... 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 ... ... 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! 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 to |
