What a tragic story and life.

The reader of this novel was not enjoyable to listen to. He made the womens' voices sound horrible and ignorant.
What an awful story of love and loss. It is rare for one growing up in a ranching community in Montana to grasp the need and reliance the southern farmers had for slaves. I have always wondered why they couldn't do the work themselves as us Northern farmer/ranchers do. However, after reading Gone With the Wind, I do have a better for understanding for the plantation owners.

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Amazing book and the best narrator ever!

This is a great book and Charlton Griffin is the perfect narrator. He brings the characters to life in a way that is unimaginable. He completely immerses you in this world and his narration make me cherish this book. Thank you Mr. Griffin.

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Hated for the Book to End

I was truly sad for this book to end and 47 hours was taunting to think of listening!!!!!I have to admit I was skeptical at first of hearing any other voice but Clark Gable but Charlton Griffin did a beauty job with all characters. He brought new life to my very favorite movie and book.. Thank you!!

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Review after reading gone with the wind

I liked this book especially because it showed about The civil War and of the lives of a southerners before the war and after the war.
The main character, Scarlett was a girl and didn’t know anything about the worlds harshness and bitterness. but after the war scarlett became a woman who knew the worst that can happen to her,
Who had nothing except the motherlike red land.
And who had all the burden in her shoulders.

I think i have learned a lot by reading this book.
It showed me a girl who was growing by the war, policy,love,and bitterness.

I recommend this book to people who wants to read long classic novel.

They sure lost a war

Shelby Foote's immortal line about the Confederacy acts as a kind of epigraph to this epic. It would be interesting to compare and contrast GWTW with its Union-side counterpart, Little Women, in a study of what it means for a nation, and particularly a nation's women, to "sure lose a war", as opposed to "win" one. (As severe as the privations were for the former Confederates, they were as nothing compared to those of other war-losing aristocracies such as those of Russia and Germany.) I naturally took an interest in this political side of the novel, but (for those unaware, pardon my spoiler) it does have a romantic side, too. Scarlett O'Hara is an American original, ruthless and opportunistic as any pioneer in a wilderness, Her marital machinations make sense for a 19th century woman determined to claw her way out of poverty, and her secret devotion to Ashley is the one exception to her self-absorption that proves the rule. Scarlett's thoroughly modern relationship to Rhett, the prototype for a thousand Mills and Boon heroes and the stand-in for modern sensibility, is satisfyingly convoluted. The postwar period dragged a little... the novel could easily have been reduced by 25% without sacrificing its impact. Charlton Griffin's reading is first rate, astonishingly convincing on the many female voices that are so integral to the novel while losing none of its resonant masculinity on the narrative passages. Overall I found it well worth the time spent. A word of warning: be prepared to hear in your mind's ear behind the entire narration a randomly alternating medley of the sweeping theme from the movie adaptation, and the Beach Boys' cheesy rendition of "Them Old Cotton Fields Back Home".

Awful narration

This novel is a favorite of mine, read many times over the years. The audible narrator butchers it; I couldn’t finish it. Horrible.

Wow! What a book!

This easily has to be one of the best books of all time, making it easy to understand why it led to the most popular movie of all time. The careful wording, the vivid poetic descriptions and the crystal clear characterizations were amazing. And this narrator was amazingly talented. He did all the male, female, negro, gentry, and cracker voices all with distinction and genuinely sounded like different people with different accents.

Breathtaking!

The book is ofcourse a timeless classic. The narration is outstanding - but I wish Scarlett's voice was done a bit differently.

A classic

I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I was not a big fan of the female voices though.

Tara

one of my very favorite reads. it is so much better than the movie. thankd