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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 quite young woman there. He takes her back to his lovely country home, Manderley. But in Manderley there is still the ghost of his first wife Rebecca who destroys the happiness of the couple. The autor 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 ardious 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 hapiness can be destroyed and what it means to be compared the whole time with a perfect person, even though that the course of the book shows that there doesn't existe a perfect person without a mistake in the world. I think it the book would be better when the beginning would be shortened and instead of that to embellish the end.
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Summary: Not my kind of thing
Review: The story is not bad and some scenes are exciting but after all the settings seemed too strange and the story too constructed for me. Also the characters are a little wierd, for example Ms Daver's only function is to walk through the castle and to be mysterious. It's just not the kind of books I like reading.
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Summary: Interesting story with a boring ending
Review: The story of Rebecca is interesting and different from usual ones. The novel shows the problems of the main actor, Mrs de Winter, very graphic. But for me there's not enough tension. One of the reasons for the missing tension is that you don't wonder why something happens because either you know why or you don't notice that something strange is going to happen.
After about three quarters of the book, the reader knows what exactly happened with Rebecca, but the book doesn't end at this place, it still goes on. That makes the end rather boring in spite of the unclear ending.
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Summary: Best book ever!
Review: Rebecca was one of the best books I've ever read. The feelings of the different characters are described perfectly in this book. The mysteries are breath-taking. Daphne du Maurier made the end perfect. It's a very sad ending, but the story is not finished yet there. Every reader can imagine the very end himself.
About the story:
After the death of his wife Rebecca, Mr. de Winter goes to Monte Carlo to forget his past. At that time he meets a young lady, marries her and takes her to his home Manderley. But there is one problem in this new marriage, Rebecca who died under mysterious circumstances. The memory of Rebecca ruins the marriage of the new Mrs. de Winter and Maxim de Winter.
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Summary: A good book, but not my taste
Review: Rebecca is a story about a young woman who gets involved in a difficult affair. In the first part of the story, Mrs de Winter, who has married a rich, much older man, Max de Winter, writes about her life in her new home, the great Manderley. She learns the entire story of Rebecca, Max's first wife. Then, her husband admits, that all this has been a lie. From then on, everything goes fast. Max is accused because of a suspicion of murder. By sheer luck, they succeed in escaping from the prison.In the whole book, there is not much tension. Neither at the beginning nor at the end. Certainly, there is some tension, but when the tension comes to a head, the book finishes very swiftly ' without being finished.
Another reason why I don't like the book very much are the characters. The entire story is not contemporary at all. It's boring to watch the rich people 'count their money'. They are so impersonal, I can just watch what they are doing, I can hardly sympathise with them.
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Summary: The two parts
Review: The first part was terrible, a love story without love. It was boring. The shadow of Rebecca was spoiling the love stroy.
I only give a star for the first part, but four of five stars for the second part. It's that way, which is boring, but why is it that way, that was interesting. Rebecca's death, the inquiry and Mr Favell's bad character were like a crime novel. The end was crazy. Manderly burns down, the great love of Maxim de Winter was always Manderly and now he has only Mrs de Winter (without a first name) and their relation of mistrust.
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Summary: A real surprise
Review: At the beginning of the book, after I had read a few pages, I was not very convinced about the novel! I found it very boring and also not very well written. Also the cover and the title were not very exciting either. When I continued to read I must say the story took another direction than I had expected and I was interested in how it would go on. A detail which I very much like in the story is that the narrator never tells her own name.
Now as I have finished reading the novel I can say that I have also read better novels, but also some which were not so good. It's a very special book and a really curious story. But I think the readers have a good chance to feel as if they were in the roles of the characters. Sometimes I didn't agree with them but I could also follow their actions. I was surprised about the end, because I had never thought that it would end like that.
I would recommend the novel to other people, but on the whole it's not a book for anyone who just wants to read a novel for pleasure because he has to think about what he's reading to see the strange motivation of the characters to sympathise with them and to understand the signs which the writer gives you! Then it's a good choice and it's worth taking the time to read! It's a really curious, exciting, poetic and sometimes a little bit cruel story!
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Summary: A good story
Review: I found this book interesting. At the beginning, I thought it was very boring, becaus on the first few pages nothing interesting happens. After reading on, the real story begins, and then it is quite interesting. I think it is a very special story, because it is independent of time. This story could happen today, tomorrow or could have happened forty years ago.
Everyone who loves a mixture between crime and love story should read this novel.
The story is not very difficult to understand.
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Summary: Boring (at least in the beginning)
Review: I found the story very slow and boring (at least at the beginning,fortunately the end is a slightly better, else it would be very boring) is , the characters sometimes seemed to do simply nothing. The actions of the people are often not or only heavily comprehensibly, for example Mrs. de Winter. Why does she stay with Maxim after she found out his dark secret? In the movie it is more understandable. But I think the movie is much better than the book.
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Summary: not a very special book
Review: Rebecca was one of the worst book I've ever read. It was very boring and not very special for me. It may be good a book for readers who like romance and mysterious stories, but for those who like tension and action it's not the right one and not my taste. Sorry!!!
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