Don't Look Now (Simply Stories: Level 1)
ISBN:
9780140813548 (0140813543)
ASIN: 140813543
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Horror,
Short Stories,
Suspense,
Gothic,
Fiction
I wasn't overly impressed with this collection of stories. Don't Look Now and The Birds were pretty good but having seen the films many times certainly took much away some of the suspense. No fault of the author. I thought that The Birds was better, more menacing, than the Hitchcock film of the same...
It's been ages since I've read a short story collection – I think the last one was Henry James The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories several years ago. It's easy to forget how effective the form can be in the hands of a good writer. I didn't enjoy these as much as Rebecca (they were published ab...
--Don't Look Now--Not After Midnight--A Border-Line Case--The Way of the Cross--The Breakthrough
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