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Originally Posted by Billsuits1
I started reading it more for the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction than the romance story, but the romance story is very good and I see why so many people like that aspect.
It is very different than the movie to me. There are things that are completly different, and parts that never showed up in the movie. I still read the book as if the movie actors are speaking the parts!
PM me and I can elaborate if you would like but I won't release any spoilers to ruin it for others who are waiting to read it.
It is a super easy read. The pages just turn and turn. Very well written.
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When I was young I loved
Gone with the Wind, the book and film, but now that I am older I have a more nuanced perspective about it. There is no doubt that it is a very will written romantic novel set at the time of the American Civil War. Now though I realize that when it was written it was also a clever piece of propaganda for the revisionist history of the Southern secession and Civil War as a noble lost cause and a not so subtle defense of the Jim Crow that prevailed at the time the book was written.
Well fiddle-dee-dee. The antebellum South was just perfect until those nasty old Yankees came down and ruined everything [for wealthy white slaveholders].
So anyway I have finished
Spring Snow and am now immersed in the next book in Mishima's tetralogy,
Runaway Horses.