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is bloody awful.

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 21 October 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

were you expecting otherwise?

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Saturday, 21 October 2006 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I thought it would be at least as good as James Oliver Curwood's stories of valour in the north country etc etc Yukon-cakes, when I finally read it a couple of years ago. Maybe you have to read it at age 14?

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 21 October 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Reading it at 14 was exactly right for me. I glanced at it again when I was in my 20s and immediately put it down.

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 21 October 2006 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Reading it in my mid-twenties, I loathed the book and everyone in it. I think I hurt a friend's feelings because she loved it at 14, too. OH WELL.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 22 October 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

has anyone read the wind done gone? is it any good?

― tom west (thomp), Sunday, 22 October 2006 13:37 (twenty years ago)

No, dude. Now you're just clutching at straws -- good Southern broomstraws, just like Mammy used to use.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:47 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I tried to read this as a teenager, made it about 60 pages in. Truman Capote found it a total hoot.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

I think you need to loves you some camp to go the Capote way.
Never tried to read it, but then it never appealed in the slightest.

― James Morrison, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

i only made it a half dozen pages in—it felt weird to be reading something and find it almost viscerally unpleasant

― thomp, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 08:37 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

i just google book'd this to see if 'frankly my dear, i don't give a damn' was actually in the original book. amusingly, almost every instance of 'damn' comes in the form of 'damn yankees.'

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 11 January 2013 00:12 (thirteen years ago)

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