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Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

Start date: July 15, 2016

Finish date: August 14, 2016

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Why we're reading this: Came in First in the Poll and is an English Classic
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Apr 17, 2017 Shirley (stampartiste) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: challenge-ultimate-popsugar-2017, challenge-back-to-the-classics-2017, read-classics

I know this is deemed a Classic, and the writing has been compared to Charlotte Bronte's book, Jane Eyre which I dearly loved as a teenager. But I just could not get into Rebecca or the drama of the narrator. I found her tedious and melodramatic. I just could not see Maxim de Winter falling in love with her, nor could I believe that a person could undergo such a vast personality change as occurred in her in just four months. I know *shame, shame* on me, but I slogged through to the end of the bo ...more

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Oct 23, 2020 Carey rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics

I'm a bit unsure about this one. I enjoyed the writing, but I feel like it was certainly repetitive and over half of the novel had a drudgingly slow pacing. Yet, the twists and turns this book took me on were truly shocking. I found myself enraptured with the last hundred pages, but does that make up for at least 100 pages of drawn out material? I'm not sure of my answer yet, but for now I'll leave it to its four stars. ...more

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Jun 05, 2023 Christine PNW rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Max de Winter is awful and this is not a romance. This is a hill on which I am prepared to die.

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Jan 29, 2019 Sarah rated it did not like it

Shelves: dnf

I made it about a 100 pages and recognized that I was forcing myself to read - a bad sign. (I actually stood in the kitchen and watched an hours worth of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure instead of returning to my book). Perhaps it was because I knew the outcome, or perhaps at this moment in my life I have no patience for creaky slow moving old tales (I also hated Woman in White a few weeks ago). I simply had no patience for the 'heroine,' a mousy girl who completely lacks both brains and self c ...more

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