This a radio play with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. As I noted in the comments, some of the funny things about this radio play are as follows: This tape cracked me up. First, Vivien Leigh LOVES Lux toilet soap. What the hell is toilet soap?! Secondly, there is a female cougher in the first par...
Honestly, I'm not sure why I decided to read this book. I was at a loose end after finishing Catching Fire, so I thought I'd just stroll through my school library and pick a classic. This jumped out at me. I must admit, it's advertising. I've always thought of Rebecca as a gothic romance novel, and ...
Honestly, I'm not sure why I decided to read this book. I was at a loose end after finishing Catching Fire, so I thought I'd just stroll through my school library and pick a classic. This jumped out at me. I must admit, it's advertising. I've always thought of Rebecca as a gothic romance novel, and ...
This review was previously posted in a slightly altered form on my blog, which can be found at www.thedeadauthorsclub.wordpress.com. It is one of my favorite reviews, so I am reposting it here. Apologies if you've already read it. Rebecca has one of the most famous opening lines in literature: "L...
This is where I was this weekend: Can you think of a better place to read Rebecca? Although the novel takes place over the span of a single summer, and du Maurier devotes page after page to describing Manderley's grounds in vivid, multifarious bloom, this can't be anything but an autumn boo...
bookshelves: mystery-thriller, boo-scary, classic, re-read, teh-brillianz, published-1938, conflagration, britain-england, gothic, psychology, revenge, paper-read Read from January 01, 1966 to March 14, 2009, read count: 3 I'll Never Be Young Again (1932) - 1*Julius (1933) - 4*Jamaica Inn (1936) ...
“I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.”Same with the review I did for Indiana by George Sand, I heard Rebecca through Meg & Dia song (pre-Dia Frampton if anyone watched her on the v...
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier is one of the best written books I have read. Two-thirds of the way through was a plot twist that was a major change to how the characters interacted and the mood of the main character. If you like literary suspense, you will enjoy Rebecca.
I hoped that I would like this book more, as it's a much-loved classic and favourite of many. Unfortunately, though the characters are creepily fascinating (especially Mrs. Danvers), and the writing wonderfully atmospheric, I only got really interested in the plot at approximately the 3/4 point once...
SpoilersA tale of suspense with gothic, mystery and romance elements. It is obviously popular fiction but is quite good. It took me a little while to get comfortable with du Maurier's sentences which can sometimes be peculiar. The story is interestingly transgressive in that the hero essentially ...
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