"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again..."

[MotorCityMan]

Wow, just finished reading the book Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. I have always loved the Alfred Hitchcock movie and decided to read the book.
Loved it.

** SPOILER ALERT **
** DO NOT READ IF YOU DON"T KNOW THE PLOT **


The coolest thing about the book, as opposed to the movie, is that Maxim actually killed his first wife Rebecca and ends up getting away with it. The movie, due to the production code, had to change it where Rebecca falls and hits her head and Maxim doesn't actually kill her.

The other thing I love with the book and the movie is that the second Mrs. DeWinter's name is never revealed.

[GCP]

1. I love Daphne Du Maurier's books

My favourite is 'The House on the Strand'. From wikipedia:
The narrator, Dick Young, has been offered the use of Kilmarth, the house of his biophysicist friend Magnus Lane, in Cornwall. He also agrees to act as a guinea-pig for a drug Magnus has developed.
On taking it for the first time, he finds that it enables him to enter into the landscape around him as it was during the early 14th century. He becomes drawn into the lives of the people he sees there, particularly Lady Isolda Carminowe, and he is soon addicted to the experience.
Within the landscape Dick is compelled to follow Roger, steward to Sir Henry Champernoune, Lord of the Manor. Roger hides his enduring love for Isolda until the day he dies, and Dick comes to share this love.
More here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_on_the_Strand.

It's a great read.

Also, she wrote the short story, 'Don't Look Now', on which the movie set in Venice with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, was based.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069995/

[Still Blue in PDX]

4. The House on the Strand is my favorite, as well.

The first book and the best of this type that I've ever read, and I've read a lot!

Thanks for posting! After exhausting the offerings on Netflix that interest me I decided last night that I need to start reading again (I quit when I started needing the dreaded Reading Glasses). Daphne du Maurier will be my jumping back in point.

[lunatica]

2. I loved that book too

[TuxedoKat]

3. I read Rebecca

and some of her other books (My Cousin Rachel) years ago and enjoyed them. Time for a reread -- thanks!

[sarge43]

5. I've always thought a story from Rebecca's point of view would be interesting

Was she a total psychopath or did she have a reason(s) for her actions?

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. I have read Rebecca several times over the years

I love that book

[raccoon]

7. "Rebecca" was a good book and I enjoyed it a lot. However, I had to wonder about the

intelligence of the second Mrs. de Winter. If he killed the first wife, one day he might get p.o. and kill her too.

It's always easier to do anything after the first time you've done it.

[cyberswede]

8. Awsome book!

I also read the book after seeing the movie (it's one of those movies I watch every time it's on tv); the book is great. I'll have to try some other DuMaurier stuff now, after reading this thread.

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. Jamaica Inn

is her second best book IMO