More Book-a-doos - Rebecca

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Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
One of those "What do you mean, you've never read Rebecca?" from your parents' generation.  It's categorized sometimes as a romance, but it's really  more of a mystery/psychothriller.  Written back in the days when people still owned "estates" and had slews of housekeepers and butlers, Rebecca tells the story of a young,

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Rebecca!

[anonymous]

One of the best books I ever read (and my Mom DID say, What?!? you never read Rebecca?)

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I spent a summer reading all of DuMaurier's books, many moons ago. Mostly quite good, although most were more on the romance side than Rebecca.

If your attention span is shorter - try the 1940 movie version with Laurence Olivier as the husband, a very young Joan Fontaine as the new wife and Dame Judith Anderson as the creepy Mrs. Danvers. A classic.

And of course many TV versions over the years. My favorite - the 1997 PBS version with Charles Dance as the husband, an unknown as the new wife and Diana Rigg as the creepy Mrs. Danvers.

[minkrose]

I'm reading your LJ today. I'll probably friend you later - but if I forget, um... I don't know.
anyway, this is gratuitous commenting and I in-no-way expect you to friend me back.

so! Rebecca! I believe that Rebecca was the last book my mother ever read to me. My mother loved reading to my sister & myself, and I got through many of the classics because mom read them to me (little women, tom sawyer, etc). I was definitely in high school, at least 16 years old, by the time she said we HAD to read Rebecca. God, I love this book. One thing I noticed within the first couple of chapters (which mom had never noticed and perhaps you didn't either) is that we NEVER. EVER. learn the narrating character's name. She has no identity - she is only and ever the second Mrs. DeWinter. So brilliant!
haha, I want to read it again now.

Have you seen the film yet? I personally am obsessed with film noir and the adaptation (hitchcock!) is delightful and pretty accurate, which I prefer in a film adaptation.
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