From the Bookshelf of The Reading Challenge Group…

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier,

Sally Beauman (Afterword)

Start date: January 1, 2014

Finish date: January 31, 2014

Why we're reading this: Classic Group Read - Jan 2014
[close] Classic Group Read - Jan 2014

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

No group discussions for this book yet.

What Members Thought

Nov 01, 2014 Panu Mäkinen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: romance

Missään teoksessa ei aprikoida, nojauduta pieluksiin ja käytetä kuvastinta niin tiuhaan kuin tässä. Näin hyvä kirja kaipaisi uutta suomennosta tai ainakin uutta, korjattua laitosta. Vuoden 1938 käännöksen kieli ei ole ihan tätä päivää enää.

Rebekan kertojana on rasittavan oloisen vanhan eukon seuraneiti Caroline, josta tulee uusi rouva de Winter. Carolinelle muutos on valtava, eikä hän osaa heti asettua uuteen rooliinsa rikkaan miehen puolisona suuressa kartanossa, joka kuhisee erilaista palvelus ...more

Like · see review

Jan 15, 2014 Lucy Mason rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, kindle, mystery-and-crime, 2014, gothic-and-horror

A game of two halves. The first, ruined by a narrator that aggravates me so much I have never managed to finish this before. The second half, however, is as close to perfect as you can get.

Like · see review

May 15, 2014 Alexia rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics

This is an odd book. Nothing really happens till you get to 70% of the book. If you have to plod through the main character being insecure and moany. But it you can survive that the last bit of the book almost makes it worth it.

Like · see review