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Heavenly; Rebecca is one of my all time favorite novels.
Skye wrote: "Heavenly; Rebecca is one of my all time favorite novels."It's one I keep meaning to read.
Nice list Nell! Rebecca has been on my TBR forever. I've been meaning to read it for a long time too. Heard great things about it!
thats a great list :) I especially like a certain justice by PD James absolutly classic :)
Rebecca is truly a beautifully written thriller with a touch of Gothicism and something else.
Great list. Afraid I haven't read hardly any of them (so I'll be adding some to my wishlist). Gotta agree with all the praise Rebecca has been getting. It's one of my favourite books. It's just really well written and the atmosphere in it is amazing. Great read.
I agree that it's the writing that elevates Rebecca. And I think Du Maurier creates powerful psychological suspense.Great books on your list, Nell! I've read only three of them, and I'd like to read the rest.
Skye wrote: ""Last night I dreamt of Manderly...""Such a memorable line. The whole books is just fantastic. Terrific read. (and the film is pretty great as well, though not in the same league as the book)
I read the novel several times and saw the film many times; Her name is never revealed: the narrator; amazing.
Joan Fontaine and Judith??? and Sir Laurence Olivier!!!Wow
Now I have to read the book AND watch the movie - in that order. I'm sure I can find the film somewhere.
Me too. I need to look for the physical copy of the book first!
They are SO good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Judith Anderson ----mind blower
Both are definitely worth the time. The actors were all really well cast - it's rare when they fit with how I imagined the characters, but they were just great in their roles.
Yes, I really agree, and the same with Jane Eyre and Joan Fontaine and Orson Wells, as well as Wuthering Heights with Tim Dalton
I agree with Jane Eyre, but I've never seen that version of Wuthering heights.Only ever seen the one with Sir Laurence Olivier. Love Timothy Dalton as an actor though.
Oh, Sir Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon were simply unnatural in the original movie: Cathy and Heathcliff are wild by nature; PLEASE rent the one with Tim Dalton--it is positively AMAZING; gasp; he is so very very good in ther role.
Read my first book for this challenge, Endless Night by Agatha Christie. It's been a long time since I read a Christie. No one writes like Dame Agatha - 5 stars!
My review is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Fatal Winter by G.M. Malliet - excellent traditional mystery. Heir to Agatha. Here's my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Tree of Death by Marcia Muller - pub 1983Very good mystery set in Southern California. MC is the curator of a Mexican Art museum who becomes the prime suspect when the director is found dead. Classic locked room mystery - several suspects and motives but how did s/he get in and out of the locked museum?
Rebecca and Beast in View are both fantastic. I've got some others of yours on my TBR shelf awaiting my attention. Excellent challenge.
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Looking forward to reading some classic mysteries.
1914-1924
The Wisdom of Father Brown by G K Chesterton (1914)
1925-1934
Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham (1931)
1935-1944
Poirot Loses a Client by Agatha Christie (1937) 5/02/15
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
1945-1954
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey (1948) 7/10/15
1955-1964
Beast in View by Margaret Millar (1955)
1965-1974
Endless Night by Agatha Christie (1967) 10/23/14
1975-1984
The Night She Died by Dorothy Simpson (1981) 1/18/15
The Tree of Death by Marcia Muller (1983) 3/29/16
1985-1994
Real Murders by Charlaine Harris (1992) 3/12/15
Death of a Snob by M.C. Beaton (1988) 11/29/15
1995-2004
A Bicycle Built For Murder by Kate Kingsbury (2001) 3/01/15
2005-2014
A Fatal Winter by G.M. Malliet (2012) 2/17/15
This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash (2014) 8/08/15