"Gone With the Wind": the greatest American novel?

[Little Texan]

Originally posted by Unchainme
Oh, and this whole Ponyboy alias thing, Is pretty stupid bob.

Yep, lame, Vader.

[stringfelowhawk]

Well, I'm too tired to look up whether or not Harper Lee is American so if she's not I don't really give a shit. I love "To Kill A Mockingbird" and that's one that slipped through the mandatory list in high school so I didn't read it for the first time until about 2 years ago.

I'd dare say "Tom Sawyer" or "Huck Finn" are just as deserving of the title.

I'm an avid reader and if I'm bored I'll read recipes to keep myself amused but lately I've read a lot of Jeffrey Deaver and James Patterson. Pretty much everything by Stephen King and John Grisham as well. I don't care for Clancy's non-Ryan or Clark books. They just don't interest me but I've read "Without Remorse" and "Debt Of Honor" more than a dozen times each and I know I'll read them again just like "Crazy From The Heat". "Without Remorse" is by far his greatest book in my opinion and has been thrown around Hollywood from studio to studio who can't seem to get it into development cause they'd much rather shit on old tv shows with "ZERO PUBLIC INTEREST" and raise ticket prices to pay Colin Farrell 20 mil a picture that won't earn a dime. Something that may or may not surprise you; I read "Absolute Power" before Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman made the movie. Up until then I hadn't read anything that wasn't affiliated with school for probably two years. That book re-peaked my interest in reading and I'd recommend it to anyone as long as you understand the movie is about as close to the book as that piece of shit drip Ben Afleck made called "The Sum Of All Fears" which throws off the entire fucking franchise time line of Clancy's Jack Ryan and John Clark themed books.

SORRY BOUT THE RANT! THE COMMERCIAL FOR MIAMI VICE CAME ON WHILE I WAS WRITING IT AND IT PISSED ME OFF!

[Ally_Kat]

Originally posted by Unchainme
Is There a Character like Joe Thunder in it? :D

There'd be plenty of characters from this forum to put in the story. :D

haha, I should!

[rustoffa]

Here's a copy-n-pasted Harris short story from "Uncle Remus, His Songs And His Sayings." Joel Chandler Harris was a literary genius. His compositional transferrence of slave dialect remains an anomaly to this day.
Enjoy!

THE WONDERFUL TAR BABY STORY

"Didn't the fox never catch the rabbit, Uncle Remus?" asked the little boy the next evening.

"He come mighty nigh it, honey, sho's you born--Brer Fox did. One day atter Brer Rabbit fool 'im wid dat calamus root, Brer Fox went ter wuk en got 'im some tar, en mix it wid some turkentime, en fix up a contrapshun w'at he call a Tar-Baby, en he tuck dish yer Tar-Baby en he sot 'er in de big road, en den he lay off in de bushes fer to see what de news wuz gwine ter be. En he didn't hatter wait long, nudder, kaze bimeby here come Brer Rabbit pacin' down de road--lippity-clippity, clippity -lippity--dez ez sassy ez a jay-bird. Brer Fox, he lay low. Brer Rabbit come prancin' 'long twel he spy de Tar-Baby, en den he fotch up on his behime legs like he wuz 'stonished. De Tar Baby, she sot dar, she did, en Brer Fox, he lay low.

"`Mawnin'!' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee - `nice wedder dis mawnin',' sezee.

"Tar-Baby ain't sayin' nuthin', en Brer Fox he lay low.

"`How duz yo' sym'tums seem ter segashuate?' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.

"Brer Fox, he wink his eye slow, en lay low, en de Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nuthin'.

"'How you come on, den? Is you deaf?' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. 'Kaze if you is, I kin holler louder,' sezee.

"Tar-Baby stay still, en Brer Fox, he lay low.

"'You er stuck up, dat's w'at you is,' says Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en I;m gwine ter kyore you, dat's w'at I'm a gwine ter do,' sezee.

"Brer Fox, he sorter chuckle in his stummick, he did, but Tar-Baby ain't sayin' nothin'.

"'I'm gwine ter larn you how ter talk ter 'spectubble folks ef hit's de las' ack,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. 'Ef you don't take off dat hat en tell me howdy, I'm gwine ter bus' you wide open,' sezee.

"Tar-Baby stay still, en Brer Fox, he lay low.

"Brer Rabbit keep on axin' 'im, en de Tar-Baby, she keep on sayin' nothin', twel present'y Brer Rabbit draw back wid his fis', he did, en blip he tuck 'er side er de head. Right dar's whar he broke his merlasses jug. His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose. De tar hilt 'im. But Tar-Baby, she stay still, en Brer Fox, he lay low.

"`Ef you don't lemme loose, I'll knock you agin,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch 'er a wipe wid de udder han', en dat stuck. Tar-Baby, she ain'y sayin' nuthin', en Brer Fox, he lay low.

"`Tu'n me loose, fo' I kick de natal stuffin' outen you,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, but de Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nuthin'. She des hilt on, en de Brer Rabbit lose de use er his feet in de same way. Brer Fox, he lay low. Den Brer Rabbit squall out dat ef de Tar-Baby don't tu'n 'im loose he butt 'er cranksided. En den he butted, en his head got stuck. Den Brer Fox, he sa'ntered fort', lookin' dez ez innercent ez wunner yo' mammy's mockin'-birds.

"`Howdy, Brer Rabbit,' sez Brer Fox, sezee. `You look sorter stuck up dis mawnin',' sezee, en den he rolled on de groun', en laft en laft twel he couldn't laff no mo'. `I speck you'll take dinner wid me dis time, Brer Rabbit. I done laid in some calamus root, en I ain't gwineter take no skuse,' sez Brer Fox, sezee."

Here Uncle Remus paused, and drew a two-pound yam out of the ashes.

"Did the fox eat the rabbit?" asked the little boy to whom the story had been told.

"Dat's all de fur de tale goes," replied the old man. "He mout, an den agin he moutent. Some say Judge B'ar come 'long en loosed 'im - some say he didn't. I hear Miss Sally callin'. You better run 'long."

[Ally_Kat]

I didn't see the big deal over Tom or Huck in Twain's books. I was able to get thru Tom, but the Huck one dragged on and on. Instead, I was all about A Separate Peace and Peace Breaks Out

[blonddgirl777]

Originally posted by Unchainme
... Oh, and this whole Ponyboy alias thing, Is pretty stupid bob.

I wouldn't mind the alias thing except that I would need proof that the movie quote:
"STAY GOLD" also happens to be a Rothism...
You can't just forge a Rothism!

[MAX]

Originally posted by Little Texan
Yep, lame, Vader.

I second that. This is becoming quite sad really.

[FORD]

Originally posted by blonddgirl777
I wouldn't mind the alias thing except that I would need proof that the movie quote:
"STAY GOLD" also happens to be a Rothism...
You can't just forge a Rothism!

It's not. It's a quote from the Outsiders book and movie.

[blonddgirl777]

Originally posted by FORD
It's not. It's a quote from the Outsiders book and movie.

As I wrote in the other post; I must have seen that movie about 20 times or more...
I have the tune "Stay Gold" in my head right now.

[bantonelli]

Re: "Gone With the Wind": the greatest American novel?

Originally posted by Ponyboy
It's my personal choice. Thoughts?

Ponyboy wishes he was "Scarlett w/Ponytails". Just be prepared for tissue and to be dumped by Rhett as he joins the ROTHARMY.

[Hardrock69]

Actually Ponyboy wishes he were hooked up to one of the wagons...that is why "Gone With The Wind" is his personal favorite.


As a kid, I read Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn many times. I found it an interesting look at life in the 1830s along the mighty Mississippi.

Tom was smart....he wanted to fuck Becky and get her involved in orgies and stuff!!!