Gone with the wind

My favorite movie at the age of fourteen was Gone with the Wind. I am not very sure of how I managed to finish the book or why I was willing to buy a legal copy of the movie at that time. Come to think of it, the movie centered around two twisted leads. To me it was a heavy and heartbreaking read - from the civil war, to poverty, to failed marriages, to cases of unrequited love and how people change over the course of time because of them. The first book to show me that life may not turn out to be a fairytale.