Rebecca in Crazy Challenge Connection

Oct 26, 2020 Carrie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary, mystery, classics, gothic, own, mgr

My copy is now filled with sticky tabs and annotations.

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Feb 19, 2009 Avigail rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: own, physical-book, 2021, 5-stars

Well, I am done with the re-read of this book. Yes, I read it as a teenager, and I loved it as I did the first time. I have an uncle in Sacramento that says that it's good to read a book a couple of times in different parts of our life.
Rebecca", the book that gave Daphne du Maurier immortality, has all the features of the novel of its time. Balancing on the thin, invisible line between plain romance and deep psychological analysis, it is engrossing for me to the point of sacrificing sleep.
Rebec Well, I am done with the re-read of this book. Yes, I read it as a teenager, and I loved it as I did the first time. I have an uncle in Sacramento that says that it's good to read a book a couple of times in different parts of our life.
Rebecca", the book that gave Daphne du Maurier immortality, has all the features of the novel of its time. Balancing on the thin, invisible line between plain romance and deep psychological analysis, it is engrossing for me to the point of sacrificing sleep.
Rebecca" is a great classic, full of suspense, with great characters. It is definitely worth reading, even as du Maurier's only book to get acquainted with her style. It is a terrific novel for a long, winter evening, virtually moving the reader to the British countryside at the beginning of the twentieth century. Although the novel certainly aged, it did so gracefully, retaining all its charm.

25.02.21
'Rebecca' is a book I read for the third time in my life, but for some reason, this time, I felt it took me a lot longer than the other two times.
Yes, I wanted to reread the book before watching the new Netflix edition.
'Rebecca' is goth literature. It is written so that the characters and events come to seem quite believable in the context, even while they slowly make the hairs on the back of your necks stand on end.
The characters - each character plays their part very well. Because of the nature of the plot, you may not quite ever be sure who some of them really are - and, perhaps, you will be left to make some judgments on your own. Also, this book has two characters that are the essence of love to hate - one because they are a total a-hole, and the other because they are creepy as hell! I don't know what it is, but I often feel like authors frequently have difficulty getting easily hateable characters right.
I have this time because our narrator is whinnying at parts where I had to up the book down. After all, I wanted to tell her to grow up.
Yes, 'Rebecca' is one of my favorite books of all time. The truth is I want to read Daphne Du Maurier's other novels.
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Apr 12, 2008 Sue rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, british-isles

Scary in book form or in the classic Laurence Olivier/Joan Fontaine movie version. That housekeeper is a piece of work!

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Jan 23, 2016 Rachel N. rated it really liked it · review of another edition

The tale of the second Mrs. deWinter and how her husband maximilian is still haunted by his first wife Rebecca. For some reason I thought this was going to be a ghost story which it isn't. It is an absorbing love story with plenty of twists and turns and a few good villians. ...more

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