Confused, the only way to get rid of your confusion about the undisputed greatness of "Gone with the Wind," is to actually read the book. I saw the movie too, which does an average job of capturing the story but doesn't actually lead the viewer under the skin of the characters. The book does this. You cannot really understand this book, unless you know the charcters so well that you know exactly why they do the things they do. The movie has been scaled down and edited down out of practical necessity. However, seeing the movie does not really mean that you have read the book or even gotten remotely close to it. MG, yea I am a big fan of Ernest Hemingway myself. His books about the first world war are just awesome. Speaking of books about the first world war, I have to mention "All quiet in the western front." The book was originally written in German. But I read the translated version, and still it just ripped my heart to read the angst of the combatants in the war. And hey, I remember those stories of Fannie O'Connor and Francis McComber. We actually had to do those for our freshmen writing class. Wow, freshmen year seems like my past life or something. I haven't gotten the chance to read "The Guru of Love," yet but I read Samrat Upadhyay's "Arresting god in Kathmandu," and I wasn't too impressed. The only good thing about his stories was the fact that they were all set in Nepal. But I didn't really think that any of his stories were original. Also, what's up with the title - "Arresting god in kathmandu" ? How does that relate to all the stories in the collection? My favorite collection of stories is definitely RK Narayan's "Malgudi days." Anyway, if someone was to ask me my favorite book, I would be completely at a loss, because I have loved each and every book I have read so far. The book that I am reading right now is "A suitable boy" by vikram Seth.