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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Does it hurt a single little thing to call it self-contained now that it's part of a greater whole? I certainly don't see how it would. Stand alone books become part of series all the time. I'm interested in the now; not the then.
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Except for the fact that I don't care a whit about Gone with the Wind, yeah, I do think it's a bit of an insult to now label it as 'self contained' rather than 'stand alone' It was a massive, landmark book. If Margaret Mitchell wanted there to be sequels, she would have written them. The sequels were obvious cash-ins trading on the history Gone with the Wind had built up.
I think what it is is that it somehow says that now GwtW must be considered according to how it fits in to the overall, larger series. That book may be a racist bit of clap trap. But it still deserves better than that.