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Ruthful
12-13-2007, 09:59 PM
...or was anyone else psyched when they heard about this:
http://www.rhettbutlerspeople.com/
I saw some hardbacked copies in the "New Fiction" section of B&N a few weeks ago and did a double take.
Loved Gone with the Wind.
Loved Scarlet.
I'm totally getting this when I can accumulate the sufficient cash.
I think it's still over thirty bucks with my Members Discount card though, so it might take a while.
Ruthful: can you think of a more, er, revealing title for your thread? I'll be happy to change it when you come up with one.
Ruthful
12-14-2007, 03:30 AM
Oops.
Sorry about that.
I suppose you could alter the thread title to the name of the book itself, i.e. Rhett Butler's People.
Or "Gone with the Wind III" if you're in an humorous mood.
:idea:
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gif
not that humorous. Especially since there's been some Scarlett's Daughter, or maybe Scarlett's Childhood, or lots of similarly dubious stuff.
Ruthful
12-14-2007, 04:27 AM
Believe me, The Ballad of [edit] Katie Colum O'Hara has yet to be written!
:pirate:
The Wind Done Gone is still carried in some book stores, although you can usually only find a single copy. The fact that this story hasn't gone into the public domain after more than six decades-and many, many years since its original author's death-really frustrates me, even though I don't think they had a legitimate case against Alice Randall-whose parody did indeed suck-to begin with.
I'm glad they got rid of those idiotic restrictions on plot for this sequel. I loved Scarlett, but to tell a writer portraying the postbellum South that he can't allude to any interracial relationships is not only absurd from a creative perspective, but incredibly absurd on a pratical level.
steph
12-20-2007, 06:32 PM
I saw it at the library a couple of weeks ago, had never heard of it, but got it anyway.
I really enjoyed it.
Ruthful
12-20-2007, 08:09 PM
I saw it at the library a couple of weeks ago, had never heard of it, but got it anyway.
I really enjoyed it.
Good.
The other two books in this series are also worth reading, especially the original Gone with the Wind.
The Civil War binds together a lot of loose strands in these stories.
steph
12-21-2007, 01:47 PM
Yea, I really need to reread GWTW, it has been several years.
I did not care for Scarlett very much, however.
:lol:
My wife felt the same way Steph--she also had a little trouble reading the original because of that pre-civil war southern slang.
Ruthful
12-21-2007, 05:43 PM
:lol:
My wife felt the same way Steph--she also had a little trouble reading the original because of that pre-civil war southern slang.
I know a lot of people ripped into the sequel-some of their critiques are accurate, but I don't necessarily agree with them all. For example, people rag on Ripley's decision to let Scarlett be enlisted in the Fenian cause-Florence King really tore into this on National Review-but when you look at her reaction to similar turbulent circumstances in Gone with the Wind it really doesn't strike the reader as much of a stretch.
I thought the novel was panned unfairly-one of the things I don't like about the press releases surrounding this novel is the fact that they're trying to distance themselves from Scarlett, which I think was a great work of fiction. Even though I'm glad the Mitchell estate is dropping its death grip on the material I don't think it should disavow the book by Alexandra Ripley.
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