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It's hard to figure out what genre this is: romance, classic in the vein of Jane Austen, suspense? A gripping, fast read with a classic opening line.
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Nov 11, 2008
Flora
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Just reread for the third or fourth time and I have to bump up the rating on this book because it is still SO GRIPPING. I think as a teenager I thought it was the plot that pulled me in but really very little happens. Instead it's all about the writing, which is masterful and completely pulls you into the narrator's emotional reality -- an intense, terrifying, and constantly changing place. I also did not appreciate when I was a child just how much of this book is about perception versus reality
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Jan 04, 2010
Celia
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it was amazing
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What a marvellous book - incredibly tense and exciting. For some reason, I had thought of Rebecca as a ghost story, and it's not that at all - not superficially anyway, although the presence of Rebecca, Max de Winter's first wife, inevitably permeates every part of the story. I couldn't believe the ending - so abrupt and final, and I was longing for more. I am wondering what, if any, du Maurier to read next - does anything else live up to Rebecca?
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May 27, 2008
Jess
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really liked it
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Apr 10, 2012
Jessica
marked it as abandoned
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Jan 31, 2015
Lisa
marked it as to-read
