Rebecca

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Summary: Amazing!
Review: I read this book as a British literature project for school. I read it in two days, since it was so hard to put down! This book makes you really connect with the main character, whom the author kept nameless in a stroke of genius. I could feel the anguish and pain of the main character as she tried to fill in Rebecca's place in the manor. I could almost see parts of myself in the main character, she was so realistic. We've all had doubts that we could fill in the shoes of someone without messing it up. Plus, Rebecca was so seemingly perfect in every way. A must-read, very captivating and realistic.

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Summary: rebecca
Review: ***** awsome book! I totally enjoyed it, couldn't put it down. I wish I could visit Manderley..had to buy Rebecca's tale as soon as I finished Rebecca. Maxim De Winter was waaay to good for Rebecca anyway!! Daphne Du Maurier is an excellant story teller..I am gonna read this one again someday Im sure..

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Summary: Thrilling.. with great suspense...
Review: I had to read this novel over my Thanksgiving week of 01' (I was behind, didn't start the book so I had to read 50 pages a day, wasting 2 hours :) At first I thought this is going to be one of those boring books like all books you have to read in English class. I started reading, boy, I couldn't believe how good this book was. Ms. Du Maurier always ends the chapter with maybe an ironic scene, which makes you push yourself to read what's going to happen next. Even though it's 380 pages long, it's a great book. I recommend you to read it.

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Summary: ooooooooooohh, so good
Review: that was one of the best books that i have ever read.

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Summary: Rebecca-Thriller till the End
Review: This book was terrific! I have never read a romance/mystery novel before and I loved it! The book was full of suspense and romance. The book almost resembled a scary movie in the sense that you think you know who the killer is until the very end when you are mystified by a plot twist. I could not put this book down, maybe it was because at times I felt as though I were standing in the room watching the main character or because I was so determined to find out what happened to Rebecca. I highly recommend reading this book! You'll want to read the sequel!

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Summary: Patience.. Is all it takes
Review: This book is very slow in the beginning but the more you read the more you are attached and want to find our more of the secrets of Manderly the ending is very unexpected. A great book for an English class.

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Summary: A very good book!
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book, it really held my interest. I would give it more stars if I could.

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Summary: Rebecca
Review: As an inspirational romance author, I found Rebecca to be intense and gripping. Daphne DuMaurier did a wonderful job of capturing the flavor of the era. Her characters were real, even the dead Rebecca, the first Mrs. De Winter, invokes her evil through her loyal servant Ms. Danvers. And, when the innocent second Mrs. De Winter enters the scene, she discover Manderley is not a fairy tale land as Mrs. Van Hopper described, but a breathing, seething, bleeding house with many secrets, buried and alive. Life will never be the same for the innocent Mrs. De Winter as she discovers, learns and fights for her own destiny. I couldn't put this book down. And, now I'm reading it's sequel, "Mrs. De Winter" by Susan Hill, and so far, I'm not disappointed. If you're in for a cozy thriller with plenty of twists and turns, then this is the book for you. Good reading, and I bid you good dreams. By Kelly R. Stevens, author of "Ragdoll, Song of the Cimarron," and "One With the Wind."

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Summary: If you like Victoria Holt Novels you will LOVE this novel.
Review: Wonderful English writing. The best novel I have read in a very long time.
I couldn't love the characters but I did very much love the novel. It is a good mystery/romance. The descriptions of Manderley, a big old English country house were wonderful. So were the descriptions of the everyday routine of life at Manderley from time in the morning room with correspondence and a review of the planned menu to tea in the library.
The author is clearly a class snob and does not speak well to anything she thinks inferior. The whole idea of the story clearly points up her feeling that there should be special privileges for the aristocracy or near aristocracy. But it is possible to get around all that because of the story and the descriptions.

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Summary: captivating, intricate, ironic, and ingenious
Review: "Last night i dreamt I went to Manderly again..." and so the story begins. Daphne Du Maurier has woven "Rebecca" into one of the most captivating novels I have ever read. From the moment the main character is swept off her feet by an older man, and carried off to his wealthy estate, Manderly, until the last few pages of the novel--Du Maurier keeps the reader in a trance. The characters in her novel are intricate and personable, each with his or her own secret to reveal. There is a surprise around every corner, and a new twist in the plot when you least expect it. In addition to the ingenious story, "Rebecca" has captured the most briliant and ironic ending perhaps of all time.