Hey, what's ont he shelf? Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

From Amazon.ca:

Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time.
Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives.

In the two main characters, the white-shouldered, irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett, Margaret Mitchell not only conveyed a timeless story of survival under the harshest of circumstances, she also created two of the most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet.

My first thought is what? There's a sequel! I must get it!

This book was a great read, and being a classic novel I was expecting it to be a bit dry, but I found myself at the end of this massive tome (1448 pages) looking for more. I was completely swept up in the civil war and the world of Scarlett and Rhett. All of the characters were vivid and interesting.

No wonder this is on the list of books to read before you die. I have the DVD on reserve from the library.