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This is why all authors should kill off all of their characters...


.....at the end of their novels and put a clause in their wills preventing anyone from writing any sequels, prequels, etc.

Wretched from beginning to end and a complete insult to Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind, and everyone involved in the 1939 film.




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Yup.

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Never knew a sequel was made, let alone based off a book. Apparently the book itself was widely panned too in the press.

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I read the book, for shits and giggles.

Holy cow, the giggles were there! So was a lot of deadly dull stuff, but some of the crap the author came up with was hilarious.

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I haven’t read the sequel. I read Mitchell’s novel when I was 16. Once was enough. I did see the sequel on tv years ago. I liked it better than film, which isn’t saying much.

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I can't recommend the sequel, except to extremely patient seekers of shits and giggles. The first third of the book is almost entirely dreadful (there's a passable chapter or two set in Charleston), it's spent extricating Scarlett from the life that Margaret Mitchell made for her, and packing her off to Ireland.

Once she arrives in Ireland things get very silly, but it's a long slog to get there.

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