Gone with the Wind in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Jun 15, 2009 Isabel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, war, favourites, southern-lit

I first read this book when I was in the 9th Grade and have lost count of the number of times I have since read it . It is amazing how one can love a character so dislikeable. Scarlett is such a brat but she's right up there with Jo March as one of my favorite book characters. ...more

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Feb 01, 2010 Lydia Presley rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2010, historic-fiction, classics, fiction

I'm incredibly late to the party. I remember as a young teenager attempting to check this book out and being discouraged from it because it held some really mature themes, and I can understand now why- I wouldn't have understood it.

When I started to work on the 1001 books to read before you die list I expected to read some good novels and a lot of novels that would bore me or I'd struggle and work my way through, because as much as I'd like to say I'd enjoy sitting down and reading books like Go ...more

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Mar 16, 2015 Lindsey rated it it was amazing

Shelves: book-club, 2015-reads, 2015-popsugar-reading-challenge

Quite possibly the best book I've ever read (and ever will read). Amazing detail and two of the best characters ever written. ...more

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Dec 01, 2007 Christina, Join Me on Storygraph! rated it liked it

Shelves: 2013

A woman I work with told me I should read this and gave me a copy several years ago. She said that I had to read it that summer. As things often go, I got busy and never picked it up. It is a daunting book to pick up. The other day, however, she asked if I had ever gotten around to reading it. I blushed that I had not. She told me that I do need to read it, that I would simply love it, and it would just bring out the 16 year old in me... this, of course, led to a discussion of who I was at 16, a ...more

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