re: Is GWTW a good book to read?

I just finished the book this year.
I see the acclaim it gets given the time period it was written.

But…the book is terribly slow, written by a female and essentially told from the perspective of a selfish teenage girl that is insufferable and full of a cast of horrendous people that you never really care about except for one.

The only redeeming quality of the book to me was some insight into the civil war from a Southern perspective. Lots of good racism in there too, but also some perspective to me about slavery from different vantage point.

But man, it is overly verbose, painfully repetitive in theme, and at times agonizingly slow.

I would not recommend it personally. I prefer Lonesome Dove, The Count of Monte Cristo, even Dune or Hyperion well before GWtW.

I will concede that women may enjoy the book more than men given the author and female perspective.