Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (spoilers)
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Re: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (spoilers)
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Cecilia. Yes! I think the name suits her perfectly.
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More recently, and I have a far larger reading spectrum now, I've read frenchmans creek and Jamaica inn. She threads a story together in a most subtle fashion that iits beautiful.
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It was the first 'classic' I ever read voluntarily. I absolutely love it, it's dark and tragic and offers a brightness. Jamaica inn and frenchnans creek are also brilliant, Jamaica inn on a par with Rebecca.
Her female charactes are, I suspect, about the best in literature of any ever. EVER!
Need to read my cousin Rachel...
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I still remeber the eerie excitement I felt as I started to read 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again' .
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Charlotte Reese wrote:I love how the narrator, the 2nd Mrs. De Winter, seemed to be a colorless personality, a shrinking violet but inside she's sensitive and very imaginative. I was a painfully shy and very awkward teen the first time I read the book so I identified strongly with her. I liked it that we never knew her name, only that Maxim described it as a " very lovely and unusual name." I've tried thinking up of names that would suit her. How about you guys? Any suggestions?
See, when I read it the lack of name didn't strike me as a lack of name. To me Daphne was what her name was, because it is a very lovely and unusual name, and the lack of naming her seemed to make it so personal. I didn't bond with the character, but I did feel like I got a glimpse into De Maurier.
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I too loved the way the book started. The first line as u said makes u feel the melancholy, the haunting , languid sadness of the book, which is not a conventional tragic-end-tear-jerker. Felt it the first time I read this book years ago and since then have seen several movies based on the book and enjoyed them all ! Beautiful storybookworm_2013 wrote:I read Rebecca some years back and fell in love with the book.
I still remeber the eerie excitement I felt as I started to read 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again' .
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From the very beginning I was captivated just by the style of writing and the picture she paints. I loved everything from the way the character thought ( exactly like I would) to the adventure to the suspense. As I was reading I found myself wishing I had a morning room. This Book was so relatable, I couldn't help but to remember all those times I'd been in love and yet still wondered if I knew the person.
I always seem to judge a book based on how engulfed I become. By how easily my mood changes with the mood of the main character. This was one of those books in which I found myself searching for something even though in real life I had nothing to solve. I would find myself extatic at that first feeling of new love and a new home, paranoid that there was something I didn't know, and suspicious yet loyal. Everything Mrs. DeWinter was going through, I was too.
I found this book on a list of must read classics and never in a million years would I have picked it up otherwise, but I am very glad I did. I loved it and I recommend it to everyone that is looking for a good book.
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