The book is much more complex than the 1939 film, and focuses on Scarlet's life taking place over twelve years. The historical content and accuracy is staggering. The prose is both colloquial to the time and poetic. Scarlet is an anti-hero for the nineteenth century and although she goes out of her way to lose your sympathy you cannot hepl but fall in love with her and all the characters of this remarkable book, which was Mitchell's first and last novel. It took me three days to read the 1000 page-plus and I have re-read it many a time since.
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The book is much more complex than the 1939 film, and focuses on Scarlet's life taking place over twelve years. The historical content and accuracy is staggering. The prose is both colloquial to the time and poetic. Scarlet is an anti-hero for the nineteenth century and although she goes out of her way to lose your sympathy you cannot hepl but fall in love with her and all the characters of this remarkable book, which was Mitchell's first and last novel. It took me three days to read the 1000 page-plus and I have re-read it many a time since.
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My wife (Liz) and I attended Saddleworth Folk Festival in Lancashire,England one weekend the Summer we decided to become vegetarian. Fortunately, Saddleworth has some second hand bookshops so we indulged ourselves and came away with some 15 or more books (not unusual for us). One tiny book I bought attracted my attention as it claimed to have some of Christ's teachings which were not in the bible and it was beautifully written. The following week I read chunks of the book in bed each night. I annoyed Liz by reading out the more interesting sections of it. When I came to a section in which Christ said that "thou shalt not kill" applied to all living creatures and that we should all be vegetarian, Liz felt intuitively that the message it contained ... Read More:
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Having first read Ishmael and now this book, I have just started on my third Daniel Quinn book "the Story of B". I have always thought along similar lines as the philosophy set out in these books, but now find that they are shaking my foundations: I am a teacher and have started to question the whole educational system as a result of reading this book. Where do I go from here? As Ishmael says: You may reach one or a million people with the message. And that's what I'll try.
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Having first read Ishmael and now this book, I have just started on my third Daniel Quinn book "the Story of B". I have always thought along similar lines as the philosophy set out in these books, but now find that they are shaking my foundations: I am a teacher and have started to question the whole educational system as a result of reading this book. Where do I go from here? As Ishmael says: You may reach one or a million people with the message. And that's what I'll try.
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Having first read Ishmael and now this book, I have just started on my third Daniel Quinn book "the Story of B". I have always thought along similar lines as the philosophy set out in these books, but now find that they are shaking my foundations: I am a teacher and have started to question the whole educational system as a result of reading this book. Where do I go from here? As Ishmael says: You may reach one or a million people with the message. And that's what I'll try.
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Having first read Ishmael and now this book, I have just started on my third Daniel Quinn book "the Story of B". I have always thought along similar lines as the philosophy set out in these books, but now find that they are shaking my foundations: I am a teacher and have started to question the whole educational system as a result of reading this book. Where do I go from here? As Ishmael says: You may reach one or a million people with the message. And that's what I'll try.
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Having first read Ishmael and now this book, I have just started on my third Daniel Quinn book "the Story of B". I have always thought along similar lines as the philosophy set out in these books, but now find that they are shaking my foundations: I am a teacher and have started to question the whole educational system as a result of reading this book. Where do I go from here? As Ishmael says: You may reach one or a million people with the message. And that's what I'll try.
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