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A review by lc_solace
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
5.0
Rebecca. Rebecca. the name, the title has been haunting me*. The niggling guilt that I should pick a novel up that could possibly enrich my mind or my thoughts instead of feeding into my overindulgence for fantasies.
In all honesty it has been on my to-read list for awhile. First off though I picked up the Large Print version at the Library. Since I do not wear glasses nor do I feel that my eyesight is failing entirely, I couldn't read the large print just on principle. It feels too much like some hard of hearing doddering grandmother speaking** or maybe that I AM a hard of hearing doddering spinster.+ urgh.
It's a simple premise actually. The story of the second wife.Within descriptions of the banal a creeping fear is concealed. An uncomfortable quiet permeates the novel and is echos in a the thought and utterance of Rebecca. Her presence taints every encounter. It shades the cove, the house even the sea.
Alfred Hitchcock actually based Birds off of another one of her novels. I'm pretty sure everybody acknowledges Alfred as a King of Creepy Cinema and he got his idea from Daphne du Maurier. If you looking for book to read in front of relatives unashamedly this summer then pick this one up. Be prepared to jump like someone pored ice water down your back when a spoon clatters. I did.++
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*which is particularly fitting considering the novel.
**IT'S KIND OF THE SAME FEELING AS WRITING ENTIRELY IN CAPITALS.....see? :)
+but not with cats. Unless they are tigers. Because even if I was doddering and reading large print novels I would still have some element of awesome.
++okay actually it was when my half-eaten apple fell over. But I didn't think that was a very recognizable sound so I took slight artistic license. The startled ice water down the back feeling is entirely true.
http://eslifeandtimes.blogspot.com/2011/06/rebecca-by-daphne-du-maurier.html
In all honesty it has been on my to-read list for awhile. First off though I picked up the Large Print version at the Library. Since I do not wear glasses nor do I feel that my eyesight is failing entirely, I couldn't read the large print just on principle. It feels too much like some hard of hearing doddering grandmother speaking** or maybe that I AM a hard of hearing doddering spinster.+ urgh.
It's a simple premise actually. The story of the second wife.Within descriptions of the banal a creeping fear is concealed. An uncomfortable quiet permeates the novel and is echos in a the thought and utterance of Rebecca. Her presence taints every encounter. It shades the cove, the house even the sea.
Alfred Hitchcock actually based Birds off of another one of her novels. I'm pretty sure everybody acknowledges Alfred as a King of Creepy Cinema and he got his idea from Daphne du Maurier. If you looking for book to read in front of relatives unashamedly this summer then pick this one up. Be prepared to jump like someone pored ice water down your back when a spoon clatters. I did.++
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*which is particularly fitting considering the novel.
**IT'S KIND OF THE SAME FEELING AS WRITING ENTIRELY IN CAPITALS.....see? :)
+but not with cats. Unless they are tigers. Because even if I was doddering and reading large print novels I would still have some element of awesome.
++okay actually it was when my half-eaten apple fell over. But I didn't think that was a very recognizable sound so I took slight artistic license. The startled ice water down the back feeling is entirely true.
http://eslifeandtimes.blogspot.com/2011/06/rebecca-by-daphne-du-maurier.html