Rebecca

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Summary: A great read!
Review: Rebecca is an amazing book. It took me awhile to get into thought, but after a few chapters, I couldn't put it down!

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Summary: A Classic Mystery!
Review: I don't read mysteries but I really had fun reading "Rebecca". It was recommended to me by a friend & like all the reviews, I agree that it started out slow & boring, but don't lose hope. I almost did. I know this is a good novel because I was never able to tell what was going to happen next. It is such an inventive novel & I love how descriptive it is. I gave it 5 stars because, other than the ending, was pretty much perfect. It being old makes it all the much better. Mysteries today seem like they were made on an assembly line. I do think everyone should read this one, though.

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Summary: A special book...
Review: I think the book is good. The story is about Maxim de Winter, a rich man, who goes to Monte Carlo and who marries a quiet young woman there. He takes her back to his lovely country home, Manderley. But in Manderley there is still the goest of his first wife Rebecca who destroys the happiness of the couple.
The author had a very good idea to start with the end of the story. Like that the book gets a special touch. But apart from that the beginning of the book is a little bit arduous and boring to read. But it becomes better and better up to the final scene which is very exciting which isn't a happy-end. The whole book is filled with emotions and unexpected expressions. The variation of feelings of the unknown narrator are descripped in a way which allows the reader to go into this person and to feel with her. The feelings change from love to hatred. The book also shows how soon that happiness can be destroyed and what it means to be compared with a perfect person the whole time even though the course of the book shows that there doesn't exist a perfect person without a mistake in the world. I think it the book would be better if the beginning were shortened and if instead of that the end were embellished and longer.

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Summary: Without tention
Review: I don't like the book Rebecca. At the beginning of the story it was just a list of everyday things. For example a walk or a meeting or something else. I found it boring.
When the diver finds Rebecca's body there is a little moment of tention. But before you can study if it was suicide or if it was an accident or if it was murder, . ... Then all tention is gone. The only thing I have found interesting is the question why the murderer killed Rebecca... But the rest of the story was boring for me.
Still the book was a good novel because it was easy to read. But if somebody wants to read an thriller, I wouldn't recommend Rebecca.

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Summary: Shy, qiet girl loves murderer
Review: 'Rebecca' is an intresting book, I read it very fast because I liked to know what Rebecca was like and why Maxim is so weird.
The story about the storyteller's jealousy of a dead person and the murder is very thrilling, but, and that's the reason why I woulden't give five stars, I don't like the behaivour of the storyteller very much, I think she doesn't fight for her love, she never speaked with her husband, she gives up and thinks her marriage have failed, although her 'enemy' is dead.

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Summary: Combination of love-story and crime thriller
Review: This story is a combination of love-story and crime thriller. I think this is a good idea to conbine those subjects.Somebody could write an interesting and exciting story. But this book is written in rather a boring way. The intervals between two events are too long and the excitement is not sustained throughout. But at least there is a lot of excitement.
It's a story about a shy young woman and her husband, who has killed his first wife. And nobody knows that he has killed Rebecca, just his second wife knew all. At least Manderlay burnt down.

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Summary: surprising
Review: I think it`s a good book. Not the best I`ve ever read, but really good. I like the fact that in the middle of the booky you notice suddenly all is different from what you have thought. I was really surprised that Rebecca was such an unkind person! And that Maxim never loved her. I think the end of the book is also really good, because the whole book deals with events that have never happened when Manderley, Maxim`s house, isn`t so important for Maxim any more. And at the end, Manderley burns down.
But sometimes the book is a little boring. There are a lot of long dialogues that aren`t really exiting. They are much too long!
But I still liked reading that book.

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Summary: interesting love story
Review: I think the book Rebecca is very good! some passages are a bit boring, but only a bit.
You understand what Daphne Du Maurier means and the story is very interesting. You think Maxim did love Rebecca but it wasn't true and you don't know at first what's wrong.
In the part of the novel, Daphne Du Maurier made the plot quite thrilling! That was the part for me. The end is a bit sarcastic, but ok!!

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Summary: surprising
Review: I think it`s a good book. Not the best I`ve ever read, but really good. I like the fact, that you notice in the middle of the book, all is different from what you had thought. I was really surprised that Rebecca was such an unkind person! And that Maxim never loved her. I think the end of the book is also really good, because the whole book deals with things which have never happened, when Manderley, Maxim`s house, isn`t so important for Maxim any more. And at the end, Manderley doesn`t exist any more!
But sometimes the book is a little boring. There are a lot of long dialogues, who aren`t really exiting. These dialogues are too long!
But I like still reading that book.

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Summary: a book for a classical shelf
Review: I recommend the book anybody, who doesn't want to make a fault by searching a new novel to read. You will surely love the book. As I read the book for the first time I found the beginning a little bit difficult to understand, but after two or three chapters I began to understand the story and gradually I couldn't stop reading. What I specially like, is the uncertainty of what will happen. The course of the story always changes, every moment things can happen, that you would never expect. Another interesting point is that the book doesn't begin with the beginning of the story, but with the end. At the beginning Manderley burns down and the first person narrator want to tell us the reason.
What I've very found exciting, was that I never expected, that Rebecca was as such person as she's at the end. I thought she was so lovely, but the truth isn't so.
The only thing what I can still say is that you have to read this book. I found exciting from the beginning to the end.

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