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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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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
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
Haven't read in years. Much darker and more complex than I remembered (or understood). Still amazing.
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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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it was amazing
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