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Originally Posted by Heather Parker
Gone With the Wind is the classic disappointment for me. I read this as a young teenager and thought it a great, romantic adventure. I read it more recently and discovered many unpleasant undertones in it. I found it patronising and racist and I have no wish to read it again. I don't know if anyone else has found this?
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I think you have to read such books as a product of the culture in which they were written. Every author is a product of his or her society, and can't really be judged in terms of the standard of a completely different one.