#i just wanna read some jane austen or lm montgomery or some bronte :(((

[jessmarianowife]

gone with the wind is so boring. i’ve been reading it for like 3 months and i’m only 30% through… i would give up on it except my mom and sister have been on my back about reading it for yeeearrrsss. i promised i’d read so we could watch the movie together but omg it’s a struggle. detest the way it’s written. sosososo boring. half of it is just descriptions of like the unfolding of the civil war. except it’s somehow only the boring details too? and from the perspective of the side fighting for their right to own slaves? am i supposed to root for that or what? the rest is the author narrating what the characters are feeling and doing instead of showing us what’s happening. and only a teeenyyy bit of dialogue. the prose is inconsistent with the character i feel like (if scarlett is uninterested in war and clueless about what’s happening, why do i have to read so much excruciating detail about it? shouldn’t the book show us HER perspective on the war? if i wanted to find out all that stuff i’d read a history textbook. i’d get the same effect.) i find it so heartless and unarousing. rhett is a gross and scumy man. what do you mean he grins like a feline and looks at (teenage) scarlett like he knows what she looks like without clothes on??? the whole book is…mysoginistic. and where is the romance i was promised??? where is the drama? so far it’s just exhausting and boring boring boring. only thing i kinda like is ashley and the whole drama between him and scarlett and melanie but so far that’s been like fifteen percent of what i’ve read and not even that is written that well. is any of this gonna change??? or am i supposed to read 700 more pages of this. cuz it’s making me a little crazy.