Third time I have read this book. I have loved it every time.

I love the Story of Scarlett and Rhett! This novel gave me a better understanding of life in the South during the Civil War! I can relate to Scarlett’s determination and attitude!

This is a really good book, as a person from Louisiana I know how it is to have all that southern pride in your blood. Not that I support slavery or racism, but I like how the author shows how southerners back then we’re brought up to believe. Scarlett is the most shallow conceited vain person ever and yet somehow you want things to work out for her. I honestly think the best thing that happens to her in the book is Rhett because he helps her say screw how people want me to behave I’m going to be my vain conceited self! You go Scarlett. I really hate how much she ignores wade but oh well. It is a really great novel. Definitely suggest it as a month or two long slow read. Don’t force yourself through it, just take it slow and read it when you want, it’s definitely better that way.

It’s been so many months since I started reading Gone With The Wind that I don’t remember what my preconceptions were, what I hoped to gain by reading it, or what I expected to find. But needless to say, whatever my expectations, they were exceeded by a degree higher than I thought possible. For all its faults and deserved criticisms, Gone With The Wind is assuredly a masterpiece. Calling the people in this book “characters” feels disingenuous. The landscapes and scenes are so vivid that it takes me a moment to remember that these memories are not my own. More passages moved me to laughter, love, anger, introspection, and tears than I can count. It was an intimate and beautiful experience, and I am tempted to consider it the greatest work of art across any medium that I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing. I will surely read it again, and carry it with me to the end of my days. I am deeply grateful to Mrs. Mitchell for the work she poured into this story. It has left me inspired beyond words.

When I first read this book, I prolonged my reading experience over the course of a few months because I was enjoying it so much. I sincerely believe that this book is the number one American classic. The storyline is historically accurate and the characters are brilliantly developed. It does however have a very disagreeable main character. Scarlett O’Hara is selfish, vain, predictable, shallow, and somehow endearing. She is the person you love to hate and yet sometimes root for. This book is a great read, and a definite gem.

Took me nearly a week to finish, but a fabulous read. Definitely my favorite book ever.

As a northerner, we are educated to accept certain truths of the pre, during, and post Civil War South. This book allows the reader to try to understand the motives of the south and what drove them to succeed and what drives them now to hold on to their personal history. Gone With The Wind gives everyone the opportunity to be empathetic of a people who saw the world In a way that...is incomprehensible to most. Amazing book. Amazing writing. Never once bored.

I really, really enjoyed reading this historical fiction. I also learned a lot about American civil war.

Amazing novel. Simply wonderful. The realistic hardships of the characters were captivating and enthralling. Two huge issues (of course there are other smaller ones) are: 1: An enormous amount of racism. The actors had continuously stated that the slaves were better off as slaves and that their owners somehow deserved to own them. They also stated that the blacks couldn't tell right from wrong and that they should've been left with their owners. Um, excuse me? That is completely incorrect. It was said because the free slaves were acting out and drinking, but nothing was said about the white men who had been doing that forever. The slaves were put into the mindset that their owners did have supreme power over them, only because the hardships they faced being free were worse than when they where on the plantation, which reinforced the white plantation owners' idea that they completely deserved to hold power over black people. Completely disgusting. There's more, but you can read the book to find out more about it. 2: Scarlett (the protagonist) was thoroughly exasperating and just downright infuriating. She was spoiled, rude, mean, and annoying, but most of the time I couldn't completely hate her because she stood up for her right to do what she wants to do despite her gender. She was a spoiled daddy's girl in the beginning, a rich (still spoiled) widow and neglectful mother, a harsh and cruel house owner, a traitorous friend, a cheating wife, a neglectful mother again,a widow again, an oblivious idiot, a stupid cheater, a mother again (not neglectful this time), an extremely bad and obtuse wife, and in the end, just a sad girl. She thoroughly irritated me throughout the story with her obsession with money and disregard for how she treated people. At moments I had to put the book down and stop reading because of how upset with her I was. Really, she grew up too fast in the beginning of the story, and turned into a petulant child in her mid-twenties throughout the other half of the book. I was completely done with her character and wanted to slap some sense into her head. She needed to get her act together and stop acting like a five year old having a tantrum and acting like a gaudy and tacky woman showing off in front of the less fortunate. Overall though, this was a thoroughly wonderful story that kept me reading for hours, sometimes even days (during a break) at a time. I finished it in less than a week, surprising myself with the speed in which I finished this book. If the author would have revised the historical accuracy of this novel, removed some of the racism, and tried to put any kind of redeeming or good traits into Scarlett's character, this book would be the perfect story, although it's still a 5-star novel at the moment. Everyone needs to read this book (especially girls) at some point in their lives.

Hello This might surprise you but I am 10 years old and this book was a hard book to read for two main reasons one was a little bit voice it was so long but mainly because this book really hit home for me because I live in Georgia and for that matter I live in Atlanta so this book was pretty hard for me to read of the many many hard ships that faced Scarlett and her family and it was so upsetting to me when I read that Scarlett's mother had died. Many people think that she go what she deserved but I disagree I think that she did not deserve being abandoned because think about it like this ok you have made a good bit of mist mistakes but do you deserve to be abandoned by a subtly every one that you love and by every one who loved you (by the way I am talking about Rhett) I think not but over all this was a wonderful book and it was money well spent And while I have you here I need to say something to say about the negative comments well you probably could care less what I think but honestly I think that is is rude and hateful and say things like that I mean what if you had spent you time (from 1927 to 1934 to be exact) on this book then sat down to see what people thought and she had seen the hateful things that you people said do you think that she would be very happy and joyful I think not but what do you care that's the thing you people don't give a thought to thought to the proper that have to read the crap you put on there and be like a child for instance we children are not allowed to cuss so there for no matter how badly we want to say something rude and ugly we reframe from doing. I am not saying that you would not say that you did not like book then say it but Rembrandt that there is someone who has to read the massage rather it is the wrighter or the family but still some one gad to and is going to read it