Interesting that Cathy, who loves reading, could not get into it at all. She said it was too slow. I loved Rebecca as a girl but I have read a debate on a blog recently about it, and how awful Max de Winter was, and how one just sort of accepted him in the "old days" but today, he would seem a bit of a -- I was going to say cad, but that's an old word -- swine? Makes me wonder whether the book really does endure in that timeless sense of, eg Steinbeck.
Interesting that Cathy, who loves reading, could not get into it at all. She said it was too slow.
ReplyDeleteI loved Rebecca as a girl but I have read a debate on a blog recently about it, and how awful Max de Winter was, and how one just sort of accepted him in the "old days" but today, he would seem a bit of a -- I was going to say cad, but that's an old word -- swine?
Makes me wonder whether the book really does endure in that timeless sense of, eg Steinbeck.