@RelishBooks yes I own a special DVD set amd now own a digital version. I had seen the movie first. The funny thing is I was a teenager and gwtw and my now mother in law was trying to get to watch it and I had no interest in an "old" movie. Once I finally watched it it became a favorite. I read the book foe the first time a few years ago. The story is the same but there are actually quite a few differences. Let me knownif you end up watching the movie!
always bugged me that it won the Pulitzer Prize the year that “Absalom, Absalom” came out. A much greater novel about the South PS Scarlett O’Hara is a direct literary descendant of Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair. Hope you read that some day. It’s a masterpiece.
@@RelishBooks ha! That’s a fairly straightforward one. May I ask why? You seem to be big on likable characters and AILD doesn’t really have any. But it’s extremely well executed.
@@Tolstoy111 I love good 'literary' writing, but Faulkner is ridiculously heavy handed. The story would have been a lot more meaningful if he hadn't over-emphasized and drawn out every detail with such drama.
@@RelishBooks If it's done as well as high literary art then it IS high literary art. :) A lot of what you saw there in Faulkner is intended to be comic. Hope you get to AA or The Sound and the Fury. They are amaaaazing.
By all means read Gone With the Wind, but realize that the view of slavery and the Civil War is that if a Southern apologist trying to create the exact sympathy for the South you reference. She was not a historian. Her research involved talking to her white relatives and reading southern apologist historians. Her view on Reconstruction reflects the resentment and racism of the South. Not to mention that the book seeks to justify racist and KKK violence. Reading GWTW as history is a mistake. Reading it as a novel can be enjoyable.
I don’t think the book is actually trying to justify any of the racism and violence, since you as the reader clearly see what flawed thinking the main characters have. I do think she was trying to show as accurately as she knew how the thoughts of certain classes of people at that time. But any way you look at it, it is both an interesting and difficult story.
@BookishTexan No need to apologize, I completely understand where you’re coming from. The book deals with very dark themes and it’s difficult to process everything that’s in it.
@@RelishBooks If you want to continue our discussion of GWTW I have a review video of the book in which o go over my points in detail with examples from the book. You can leave a comment there, but no hard feelings if you don’t want to.
Gone with the Wind is one of my favorites for so many reasons. ❤
Have you seen the movie? I haven't yet, but I want to if it's good.
@RelishBooks yes I own a special DVD set amd now own a digital version. I had seen the movie first. The funny thing is I was a teenager and gwtw and my now mother in law was trying to get to watch it and I had no interest in an "old" movie. Once I finally watched it it became a favorite. I read the book foe the first time a few years ago. The story is the same but there are actually quite a few differences. Let me knownif you end up watching the movie!
@@sheanajo19 Thanks! I'll try to check it out soon.
always bugged me that it won the Pulitzer Prize the year that “Absalom, Absalom” came out. A much greater novel about the South
PS Scarlett O’Hara is a direct literary descendant of Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair. Hope you read that some day. It’s a masterpiece.
“As I Lay Dying” put me off of Faulkner so hard I’ve never gone back. But maybe someday.
@@RelishBooks ha! That’s a fairly straightforward one. May I ask why? You seem to be big on likable characters and AILD doesn’t really have any. But it’s extremely well executed.
@@Tolstoy111 I love good 'literary' writing, but Faulkner is ridiculously heavy handed. The story would have been a lot more meaningful if he hadn't over-emphasized and drawn out every detail with such drama.
"Pop fiction" is absolutely high literary art if it's done as well as high literary art.
@@RelishBooks If it's done as well as high literary art then it IS high literary art. :) A lot of what you saw there in
Faulkner is intended to be comic. Hope you get to AA or The Sound and the Fury. They are amaaaazing.
Comments are very Politically incorrect... which i love.
Looking for your opinion, not anything new, necessarily. Your opinion and explanation is appreciated. Thank You.
Thanks!
By all means read Gone With the Wind, but realize that the view of slavery and the Civil War is that if a Southern apologist trying to create the exact sympathy for the South you reference. She was not a historian. Her research involved talking to her white relatives and reading southern apologist historians. Her view on Reconstruction reflects the resentment and racism of the South. Not to mention that the book seeks to justify racist and KKK violence. Reading GWTW as history is a mistake. Reading it as a novel can be enjoyable.
I don’t think the book is actually trying to justify any of the racism and violence, since you as the reader clearly see what flawed thinking the main characters have. I do think she was trying to show as accurately as she knew how the thoughts of certain classes of people at that time. But any way you look at it, it is both an interesting and difficult story.
@@RelishBooks I deleted my response to you because I realized I was being rude by picking an argument with you in your comments. My sincere apologies.
@BookishTexan No need to apologize, I completely understand where you’re coming from. The book deals with very dark themes and it’s difficult to process everything that’s in it.
@@RelishBooks If you want to continue our discussion of GWTW I have a review video of the book in which o go over my points in detail with examples from the book. You can leave a comment there, but no hard feelings if you don’t want to.