Gone With The Wind

Gone with the Wind
$19.98
Gone with the Wind (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]

had my doubts about improving dvd into blu ray of a 70 year old movie,but no more!crystal clear reproduction of the classic to see it the way it was meant to see.for all those that have the previous GWTW on dvd-spend the$45 to get the blu ray edition.it is like night&day.

Gone with the Wind (Two-Disc Edition)
$19.98
Gone with the Wind (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]

had my doubts about improving dvd into blu ray of a 70 year old movie,but no more!crystal clear reproduction of the classic to see it the way it was meant to see.for all those that have the previous GWTW on dvd-spend the$45 to get the blu ray edition.it is like night&day.

Gone with the Wind
$18.00
One of the icons of American Literature and deservedly so.

First read this when I was a teenager and my friends and I would ooh and aah over the scene near the beginning where Scarlett was trying to decide what to wear to the party at Ashley's plantation.

I read it every couple of years thereafter and as I grew and matured so did my appreciation of this magnificent book. I first became more aware of how detailed Mitchell's research about the Civil War must have been (no matter how biased she was) and this prompted me to read more books both fiction and non-fiction about that period.

My next level of maturity was demonstrated by subsequent reads where I became more impressed with Mitchell's willingness to avoid a standard HEA. She never painted Scarlett as anything but what the character demanded: a spoiled debutante whose world had not only collapsed but was blown away forever by the "wind". Scarlett's true, unvarnished, bottom line goal in life became to ensure that she and her family would survive and so would that representation of survival - Tara. Compared to the mores of that lost civilization, she seemed to have fallen from grace. In reality, she, being so very young, came to understand which of the values and mores of that civilization were worth keeping and what were just superficial and ignorant societal expectations. Unfortunately, she didn't realize this in time to obtain the greatest of those worthwhile values - true and reciprocated love. However, she did get what she needed and was looking toward the future with her trademark confidence and assurance.

Just a fabulous, fabulous book.

Gone With the Wind
$28.00
Gone With the Wind is one of those books that for years I've been telling myself I really should read, but other books just kept getting in the way. I finally decided pick it up, and couldn't put it down once I started it. It's such a wonderful story, and the ending is one of the best endings I've ever read in a book. The book is so much more than just a romance. I really wish Mitchell had written a sequel, because I would love to know what happens next to Scarlett (I know there are a few sequels out there by other authors, but to me that just isn't the same..I won't be reading them).

One thing that was very hard for me to take was the extreme racism in the book. Of course, reading a book set in the South during slavery times and you know at least some of the characters will be racist. What surprised me though was how it is very apparent that Mitchell was very racist as well, and wasn't afraid to make her feelings about blacks and the South in general known. I really had to mentally block out some of Mitchell's attitudes in order to fully enjoy the book. At one point--around page 600, when Mitchell is describing the Restoration--I nearly had to set the book aside; it upset me so much. I'm glad I didn't though, because it is a great story, and one that will stay with me forever.