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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 655900" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Lil, I'm not a big fan of Civil War stories and I look at 1,000 page books and laugh. But I could not put this down. I was walking around the house into walls while reading. It is one of the most honest and best learning experiences to read about the truth of the Civil War from the southern side. I learned more from it than I ever learned in school. It made me laugh and cry and it was so well written. I highly recommend it. The movie is garbage compared to the book. Scarlett actually has three chidlren. Bonnie dies, but you do feel a little more hopeful because she had a child with her first husband, Charles, and with Frank Kennedy. Melody is amazing and that comes through more in the book than the movie. Scarlett spends most of her life trying to stop Ashley from falling after his world falls apart...he is not a strong man, but the book really shows yout hat without Scarlett he could not make it. And Melody (and Melody is aware of his weakness).</p><p></p><p>I think it is a book that everyone should read at least once. The book is not as depressing as the movie. More stuff happens in between. A movie has to condense everything into a shorter version of any book. The only movie I ever saw that I felt was as good as the book was "Misery" by Stephen King. All the other movies fall short of the books. But I am a big reader. I favor the longer version...</p><p></p><p>I do think she loved Ashley, in denial of how weak he really was, but stopped loving him when she had a lightbulb moment when Melody died. She actually saw that he was playing her and loved his wife and, worse, was helpless without her, which made Rhett suddenly become the strong man that he actually was. By then Rhett had lost bonnie, his love, and was tired of "Ashley, Ashley, Ashley"...she would not sleep with Rhett because Ashley and Melody were supposedly not sleeping together because if Melody got pregnant again she could die (and, indeed, she did and she died). Rhett was hurt and angry and made Bonnie his love, but when she died, as he said "she took everything."</p><p></p><p>Great read.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 655900, member: 1550"] Lil, I'm not a big fan of Civil War stories and I look at 1,000 page books and laugh. But I could not put this down. I was walking around the house into walls while reading. It is one of the most honest and best learning experiences to read about the truth of the Civil War from the southern side. I learned more from it than I ever learned in school. It made me laugh and cry and it was so well written. I highly recommend it. The movie is garbage compared to the book. Scarlett actually has three chidlren. Bonnie dies, but you do feel a little more hopeful because she had a child with her first husband, Charles, and with Frank Kennedy. Melody is amazing and that comes through more in the book than the movie. Scarlett spends most of her life trying to stop Ashley from falling after his world falls apart...he is not a strong man, but the book really shows yout hat without Scarlett he could not make it. And Melody (and Melody is aware of his weakness). I think it is a book that everyone should read at least once. The book is not as depressing as the movie. More stuff happens in between. A movie has to condense everything into a shorter version of any book. The only movie I ever saw that I felt was as good as the book was "Misery" by Stephen King. All the other movies fall short of the books. But I am a big reader. I favor the longer version... I do think she loved Ashley, in denial of how weak he really was, but stopped loving him when she had a lightbulb moment when Melody died. She actually saw that he was playing her and loved his wife and, worse, was helpless without her, which made Rhett suddenly become the strong man that he actually was. By then Rhett had lost bonnie, his love, and was tired of "Ashley, Ashley, Ashley"...she would not sleep with Rhett because Ashley and Melody were supposedly not sleeping together because if Melody got pregnant again she could die (and, indeed, she did and she died). Rhett was hurt and angry and made Bonnie his love, but when she died, as he said "she took everything." Great read. [/QUOTE]
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