Gone with the Wind

It's been a couple of months since my big move and now feel as if I have settled back into a routine. Hopefully that routine will allow me more time to write blogs as there are many great books out there I would like to recommend to people.


It has been a while since my last post and the fault is mine alone. I finished Gone with the Wind a few months ago but haven't been up to the task of writing about it. One of the reasons why is "How does one write about a book like that?" When trying to write about a book so well known and loved and so many people have written about it before. I am left with a hollow feeling as if I'm trying to cross the sea in a life raft. The shear scope of this book is so deep that one doesn't even know where to begin, but I will try.


First I would like to say that I am ashamed that until recently I had never read Gone with the Wind. This is an over site on my part as I had borrowed the book from a family friend years ago, but never picked it up before they asked for it back. It was not until my younger sister who is not an avid reader said she wanted to read Gone With the Wind did I decide to read it as well because there is no way I'm going to let my little sister read a book I haven't read yet. So began the battle to see who could finish the book first. she did only by a few days (she had over a month head start) but I have got to say it was one of those books that I never wanted to end.



As for the book itself I hardly need state that Gone with the Wind is one of the greatest American books ever written. The beautiful flowing language and story captivates any reader with an idealist look at the old south before the war. To get just a glimpse at a world that is now gone is such a treat. History fascinates me and any chance I get to read about the past I'm game (even if it is fictional). Though the civil war is a large portion of the story for me the overarching story line is survival through anything life can throw at you. Even the intertwined love triangle between Scarlet, Rhett, and Ashley is not enough to take away the the of survival. Reading the book really opened my eyes to why Scarlett was the way she was. I am happy to say the movie does do the book justice but there is so much more to the story than the silver screen would ever hope to accomplish. One can only wonder at what other stories Margret Mitchell would have come up with if it wasn't for her untimely death.



There is really only one think I can cay about this book: Absolutely Beautiful.