On this date 75 years ago, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind was published.
It took me years of trying to read GWTW. When I was in high school, at any given time at least two girls I knew would be reading it, and everyone said, "Oh, you can't put it down!" Well, I didn't have any trouble putting it down. I started it several times, and it bored me senseless.
But then when I was 20 years old, I was bed-ridden for about a month. I had read everything in the house, and the only thing left was that book. So I slugged through it, and by the time I got to Chapter 7, I couldn't put it down. I have probably read it 25 or 30 times since -- I used to read it every spring.
I think that if I knew Scarlett O'Hara personally, I would not like her at all. We cheer for her because she is strong and brave and determined, but she really isn't very nice.
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