Rebecca in Pick-a-Shelf

Jun 15, 2010 Luann rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, classics, adult, 2010

Why do I find it so much harder to write a review for a book that I really loved than for a book I really didn't? I also have a harder time writing a review for a book that is very well known and has had a lot written about it over the years. What could I have to say that would in any way add to what others have said? Especially when I just keep wanting to say things like "I loved this book!" "It's awesome, amazing, mysterious, and frustrating!" "Everybody should read this book!" and "Why didn't ...more

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May 30, 2009 Sunflower rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-read-2009, historical-fiction

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Jul 22, 2010 Joanie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: own, audio-book, 2012, 1001-book-list, banned-challenged, classics

I have to idea why I waited so long to read (well listen) to this. Sooooo good.

I saw this movie back in junior high I think. My parents put us all through an Alfred Hitchcock phase, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, (hmm...maybe it was a Jimmy Stewart phase) and this one was included but I either fell asleep or just totally forgot the ending because I was totally surprised when I finished the book. Kind of a happy accident really since it made the book much more suspenseful than i ...more

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Feb 12, 2011 Joanna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011-read, 1001, rws-2010-winter, bookish-2011-winter

I listened to the first two-thirds of this as an audiobook, then cassette 9 of 11 on my library copy was broken, so I ended up reading the last 100 pages or so in print. But I'm sure my reading was colored by the narrator's voice from the audio cassette version that I'd been listening to.

A very creepy story. I sensed some of what was coming in the plot from the foreshadowing, but was still on the edge of my seat waiting to see it all unfold. Its unusual to read a book where the title character i ...more

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Jan 03, 2009 Nicole rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-book, 1001-list, classics, 2009

I didn't love Rebecca, in fact there was a lot about the story and the plot that I really hated; however, I have some much to say about it, and I think sometimes the fact that a book can inspire that speaks more to its credit to whether you liked it or not.

I hated the book and the characters for the first two thirds, and probably would have walked away from it had a not been listening in my car. My problem was largely with the narrator, who is so sniveling and spineless, that the author doesn't ...more

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Dec 02, 2010 Joanna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, unfinished, rws-2010-winter, bookish-2011-winter

The narrator for this book did an excellent job conveying the unnamed narrator's voice. I only listened to the first two-thirds; then cassette 9 of 11 of my library copy was broken, so I didn't hear the end of the book (I read it in print instead). A very enjoyable story. ...more

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Oct 17, 2008 Ashley rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, 2009

I would rather have it at a 3.5. The book was really good, but the language was a little hard and it took a little time to get into, but once you do it is worth it.

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