I also really liked the book. I gave it 5 stars on Goodreads, but was more like 4.75.
I also like you rubysmama did not know anything about it, only the title. I also did not know Daphne DuMaurier also wrote "The Birds" as a short story, and I watched the Hitchcock version of "The Birds" a few times when it was on TV when I was growing up.
I thought it went slowly at first with sooooo much of the 2nd Mrs DeWinter who was unnamed's thoughts but then I felt that that was the main part of the book, not a story where the plot takes over. I soon came to like that.
Her personality was almost painful to feel.
I thought it was effective that the main character was never named- and in the Author's Notes in the edition I read she said "simple: I could not think of one."
I never saw coming that Rebecca was not the body that had washed up. Or that Maxim may have killed her.
I did figure out that Favell and Rebecca were having an affair and that that's what Rebecca was up to in her cottage, with a lot of men.
I think they did love each other, 2nd Mrs. and Maxim in their own ways as the people they were and for the times. Not something I would want. I was glad at the end 2nd Mrs. got some guts, but was not to be at Manderley. But I was a little surprised she stayed with him after learning he shot her, but then where would she go? And she seemed to accept Maxim quickly after learning the truth.
I felt for Ben, and how he would have been treated in those times. And being referred to as "idiot" by the author and people throughout the book.
I was confused with the Epilogue that Maxim was being called Henry, and found in the Author's Note she thought Henry sounded dull, and DuMaurier changed it to "Maxim." But it's not changed in the Epilogue.
I'm glad the Epilogue was there to know where and how they wound up. Must have money from selling Manderley since it's to become a country club. And 2nd Mrs. saying they are content and that she has lost a lot of timidness, shyness with people.
In some ways I was thinking of Jane Eyre, one of my favorite books, but it's quite different in ways.
I enjoyed it and really glad I read it. I'm going to watch the Hitchcock version now.
I also like you rubysmama did not know anything about it, only the title. I also did not know Daphne DuMaurier also wrote "The Birds" as a short story, and I watched the Hitchcock version of "The Birds" a few times when it was on TV when I was growing up.
I thought it went slowly at first with sooooo much of the 2nd Mrs DeWinter who was unnamed's thoughts but then I felt that that was the main part of the book, not a story where the plot takes over. I soon came to like that.
Her personality was almost painful to feel.
I thought it was effective that the main character was never named- and in the Author's Notes in the edition I read she said "simple: I could not think of one."
I never saw coming that Rebecca was not the body that had washed up. Or that Maxim may have killed her.
I did figure out that Favell and Rebecca were having an affair and that that's what Rebecca was up to in her cottage, with a lot of men.
I think they did love each other, 2nd Mrs. and Maxim in their own ways as the people they were and for the times. Not something I would want. I was glad at the end 2nd Mrs. got some guts, but was not to be at Manderley. But I was a little surprised she stayed with him after learning he shot her, but then where would she go? And she seemed to accept Maxim quickly after learning the truth.
I felt for Ben, and how he would have been treated in those times. And being referred to as "idiot" by the author and people throughout the book.
I was confused with the Epilogue that Maxim was being called Henry, and found in the Author's Note she thought Henry sounded dull, and DuMaurier changed it to "Maxim." But it's not changed in the Epilogue.
I'm glad the Epilogue was there to know where and how they wound up. Must have money from selling Manderley since it's to become a country club. And 2nd Mrs. saying they are content and that she has lost a lot of timidness, shyness with people.
In some ways I was thinking of Jane Eyre, one of my favorite books, but it's quite different in ways.
I enjoyed it and really glad I read it. I'm going to watch the Hitchcock version now.