Review: Gone With the Wind for Dummies
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2012
Note - slight spoiler included in reviewThis book wouldn't have been *quite* so bad if it weren't for the awful accents the characters were given, but it is obviously written by someone not from the south.  Nobody in the south uses "y'all" in the singular.  Ever.  Only people trying to mimic southerners do this, and it was in every other sentence (along with the phrase "pea-green with envy"). Everyone speaks and acts like it's the wild west (how often have you heard that it was common behavior of southern gentlemen in the 1850's to get drunk and brawl at balls - or to say the F word in polite company or call the southern belles b*tches to their faces? Me neither until now). Then when the men go off to war these proper ladies turn the plantation into a bordello - are you kidding? It was very incongruous and I found myself thinking "what in the world?" or rolling my eyes on numerous occasions.  Overall I found it a difficult book to get through and found myself wanting to abandon it several times.