Rhett Butler's People review
Feb. 18th, 2009 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearDear God, this book is awful!
(I feel better now...)
A colleague at work has started, very kindly, lending me books she enjoys. Unfortunately, we don't really like the same kinds of books.
This book was, for some totally unknown reason, commissioned by Margaret Mitchell's estate, and is billed as "solving the mystery of Rhett Butler". From that, I assumed it was a prequel detailing his background. What it turned out to be was a retelling of the events in Gone With The Wind, only with no narrative skill and no characterisation whatsoever. Rhett is actually hardly in it, and you don't get to know very much about him at all, as the narrative is nearly all reportage, which skims over everything that happens in very little detail, and gives almost no insight into the emotions or motivations of the characters at all.
Awful, awful book.
(I feel better now...)
A colleague at work has started, very kindly, lending me books she enjoys. Unfortunately, we don't really like the same kinds of books.
This book was, for some totally unknown reason, commissioned by Margaret Mitchell's estate, and is billed as "solving the mystery of Rhett Butler". From that, I assumed it was a prequel detailing his background. What it turned out to be was a retelling of the events in Gone With The Wind, only with no narrative skill and no characterisation whatsoever. Rhett is actually hardly in it, and you don't get to know very much about him at all, as the narrative is nearly all reportage, which skims over everything that happens in very little detail, and gives almost no insight into the emotions or motivations of the characters at all.
Awful, awful book.
