Finallly! Reading Gone With the Wind!

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I loved the movie (and Clark Gable I MUST admit ... *whew*) and have begun reading the book. It is over 1,000 pages long and I'm now at page 675.

The book is a lot different than the movie! What a shock it is to me to read some of the stuff written by author Mitchell (daughter of a former plantation owner that never knew that the Civil War was lost!).

Lots of real crud to be read in this book, not saying that the book is no good, it is just much different than the movie and, yes, better than the movie too (even if Clark Gable himself is not in the book and character Rhett Butler doesn't have a huge role quite yet).

Rather shocked that Scarlett had three kids it seems (so far ... ).

Would be real interested to see what others have to say about this book -- written in 1929 and not published until the late 1930's it seems.

Good reading no doubt but long ... need lots of without any butter as to not ruin the book!