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Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

Start date: May 15, 2018

Finish date: June 14, 2018

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May 25, 2018 Kavan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Oppressive is the word that kept floating to my mind while reading Rebecca. This is a novel that begins in sadness and moves on to tragedy. Author Daphne du Maurier opens with consequences and then slowly unfurls the actions that fueled those consequences. This is not a romance but instead a cautionary tale. The narrator, naïve, immature and foolish falls into the trap of romanticizing an older figure and then finds herself paying and paying for her delusion.

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Dec 18, 2020 Mela rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery-adventure, historical-period-1914-1945, historical-fiction, group-guardian-1000-novels, historical-romance, region-british, group-catching-up-on-classics, region-other-european-countries, group-virago-modern-classic

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Preface:
I had been postponing reading it for a long time. I watched part of the 1997 adaptation and I thought: "why the story is so loved?" This not favorable impression (I don't remember now why I didn't find it interesting or/and enjoyable) stuck with me and for years I avoided all du Maurier's book. Then, one day I picked (accidentally) The King's General - and since then I am her fan. I have read (so far) eight of her books, most of them I found ama ...more

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May 27, 2018 Critterbee❇ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, f, golden-age, classics, atw

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Sep 07, 2017 Angel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, fiction

This was my book to read before going to bed for the past couple of weeks. Let me say that this book on many nights kept me awake.

After finishing Rebecca tonight, I cannot shut my eyes and wander into a calm sleep without gushing somewhere. This book is hauntingly beautiful from beginning to end. To date, I thought Wuthering Heights (in my opinion) took the cake in creating a soul-shaking, bone chilling, romantic novel with characters gripped by the ghost-like presence of a strong woman, but R ...more

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Aug 03, 2018 Kate rated it liked it · review of another edition

JIt was slow-going until just after the fancy dress ball (page 219/386) and Inwas so glad that the current Mrs. de Winter finally grew a backbone. Whine, whine, whine. All the inner turmoil, for nothing, except for the reader to slog through.

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Dec 01, 2015 Caroline rated it it was amazing

A perfect book. With the perfect opening line….
I’ve read this many times and always love it.
This is for sure a desert island pick for me!
Part of the brilliance of this book is what the author withholds; most famously of course, the given name of the current Mrs deWinter, which is such a powerful tool and absolutely genius. Not telling us her name tells us so much.

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Nov 30, 2018 Tuesdayschild marked it as abandoned

Shelves: should-i, 2018-read

After discovering what really happened to Rebecca - I guess that's why they are called spoilers -my interest in this classic read hit 'not'. Psychological suspense as a genre does not light any fires for me. Maybe I'll try this book again in 10 years, my tastes may have shifted (snorts in disbelief). ...more

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