(This is pretty much apropo to nothing.)
Feb. 6th, 2009 10:27 pmGone With the Wind is a phenomenal book. And amazing, excellently-plotted book, with distinctive, well-written characters.
And both of the "official" sequels SUCK.
They are both such outrageous offenses to the spirit of the original and of the characters that Mitchell wrote that I seriously can't believe they were approved and published.
Scarlett reads like self-insertion fanfic and contradicts buckets of GWtW.
Rhett Butler's People white-washes Rhett's character into a misunderstood noble goody two-shoes.
What the fuck, people. No.
And both of the "official" sequels SUCK.
They are both such outrageous offenses to the spirit of the original and of the characters that Mitchell wrote that I seriously can't believe they were approved and published.
Scarlett reads like self-insertion fanfic and contradicts buckets of GWtW.
Rhett Butler's People white-washes Rhett's character into a misunderstood noble goody two-shoes.
What the fuck, people. No.
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