Rebecca in Reading with Style

Oct 15, 2009 Juniper rated it really liked it

Shelves: owned, 2013-books

below, there will be spoilers. consider yourself warned.

YAY!!! this book was so much fun and so awesome!!

a couple of my GR friends read this last fall and had a good discussion going on under their review, so i popped over to share a few thoughts. i have just copied over my comment, so i can tie these things into my review:

they were talking about unreliable narrators:

re: unreliable narrator: as soon as she lied about spending time with maxim in monte carlo, to mrs. van hopper...our narrator's cr ...more

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Jun 28, 2009 Wendy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, mystery-suspense, 1001-books, national-book-award, gothic, twisted-love, 500-women

If I hadn't been so crazy busy this week, I should have blown through this book in just a few days. I'm embarrassed that it took me an entire week, actually, because it's just so well plotted. The slow-building tension, the gothic atmosphere, the naive narrator so clearly out of her depth, all build to a mostly (though perhaps not completely) surprising climax. I only just finished it, and at the surface it seems a rather straightforward story, but I haven't yet had the time to think things thro ...more

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Nov 27, 2011 Frankie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2021

Reread this for the first time as an adult. The first time was long enough ago that I had no memory of the plot. These characters are all maddening. I do not like anyone, and the first half is painful. But I have to admit it’s gripping as. Also there’s some fun social satire like their endless polite lunch the day of a gruesome event. 😱

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Dec 01, 2010 Rachel rated it it was amazing

Having adored the Hitchock film version of this novel years ago, I can't believe it's taken me this long to read this novel.

Rebecca is simply astounding. Du Maurier doesn't write with flourishes, really, or a unique sense of humor or anything, she just bangs out a CLASSIC plot with finesse and undeniable impact. I love the romance here, Maxim and his new wife gaining complete empathy despite the odds--the truth about what happened to Rebecca, her shyness. Mrs. Danvers is such an effective villai ...more

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