I am embarrassed to include this as my first book of 2008 but there it is The fact that it took me six weeks to finish tells you how interesting it wasThe plot was okay I m almost always okay with reworkings of classic plots from the viewpoint of a different character But the writing was unbearably poor If I hadn t cared very very deeply about the characters a legacy entirely of Margaret Mitchell and having nothing to do with this book I would have been unable to finish itBy comparison I liked Scarlett very much As a purist I m not sure I can ever accept it as canon and Scarlett s running around with a proto IRA is a bit silly But that
It was like visiting old friends again I read it again
BOOK I COULDN T PUT DOWNI couldn t put down read cover to cover in 24 hours Again I was invested
because of my obsession with the original GWTW but at least Scarlettof my obsession with the original GWTW but at least Scarlett me entertained while it twisted characters all out of sorts This one Skip it You really need to read Gone With the Wind first in order to really appreciate this book The author was commissioned by the estate of Margaret Mitchell to write this parallel seuel to GWTW and he has ept faithful to her style In it we get background about Rhett s youth his family and
characters who are just briefly mentioned in GWTW The story is told through Rhett s eyes It goes his youth his relationship with Scarlett and takes it past where GWTW ends and on to the conclusion which I will not give away I thoroughly enjoyed this book could not put it down. Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate Rhett Butler’s People is the astonishing and long awaited novel that parallels the Great American Novel Gone With The Wind Twelve years in the making the publication of Rhett Butler’s People marks a major and historic cultural event Through the storytelling mastery of award winning writer Donald McCaig the life and times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfo. ,many characters who are just briefly mentioned in GWTW The story is told through Rhett s eyes It goes
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and again just like I have read Gone With the Wind soagain just I have read Gone With the Wind so times What was the last book that brought tears to your eyes as you finished the last page Not due to the heroheroine s tragic death but simply because you have finished the story That s how I felt after finishing Rhett Butler s People tonightRhett Butler s People is set around Margaret Mitchell s classic novel You meet Rhett before that fateful meeting at a Twelve Oaks
Picnic And The Book Continuesand the book continues weave in and out of the well nown events of GWTW The author then takes you beyond Rhett s dramatic exit and continues the story Granted he continues it for all of 90 pages but it just feels right where the story goes after Yes I ve read Scarlett but I prefer Mr McCaig s version of the events I will also admit that there were a few places in the story that I would have loved to smack Ms O Hara and that I can t recall having that urge in her story Rhett Butler s People is true to the original novel Scarlett has three children Suellen marries after the War and other characters left out of the movie are here That s definitely a plus for me Can you picture Miss Melly as a gossiping complainer Rosemary Butler marrying Ashley Wilkes Scarlett and Belle Watling friends Rhett mooning over a womanI love Gone With the Wind hell I even loved Scarlett and that was considered a travesty against GWTW but this book ruins Margare. Lds Through Rhett’s eyes we meet the people who shaped his larger than life personality as it sprang from Margaret Mitchell’s unforgettable pages Langston Butler Rhett’s unyielding father; Rosemary his steadfast sister; Tunis Bonneau Rhett’s best friend and a onetime slave; Belle Watling the woman for whom Rhett cared long before he met Scarlett O’Hara at Twelve Oaks Plantation on the fateful ev.
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