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Did you guys know about the new sequel to Gone with the Wind? Or what do you call a book that starts years before the main story, then goes through and beyond it? Never had heard of such a thing. Anyway, the story has the unsavory name of "Rhett Butler's people" Sounds like a CIA report to me. Even though it was also commissioned by the same money-hungry Mitchell's family state, "Rhett Butler's people" has negated the whole existence of "Scarlett" book. So the Mitchell heirs have accepted that Scarlett was bad fanfic, even more, it never existed.. Is this retconning? Is this a duology? All this is making my mind spin. Scarlet was indeed on of the most hideous sequels ever written. I doubt anything they came up with could be any worse. As someone said, we should ask the treaty of Geneva to include a new clause to prevent this book to be read to political prisoners as a form of torture.
Anyway, now how can we take seriously this new Rhett Butler book after such precedent? Hilarious. These heirs are a big joke.
I guess that by 2031 when the copyright (hopefully) expires in the US we will have at least 10 different sequels to the same story, all contradicting each other, all authorized by the heirs of that poor dead author. Did you know they are suing the project Gutenberg? Whoever sues project Gutenberg must have a special kind of hell waiting for them.
At least the heirs of V.C. Andrews left alone the Flowers in the Attic saga after one prequel. I guess they have still some sort of decency left in them, even though they have signed over ten books as written by VC Andrews while it was written by a ghost writer.
ETA: I take that back. I now remember the V. C. Andrews also had the last book of the Flowers in the Attic sage finished by a ghost writer. That is why it is notably inferior to all the real stories.
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