[ SECRET POST #5018 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5018 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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02.
[Fleabag]


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03.
[The Princess Weiyoung]


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04. https://i.imgur.com/DRNtYh0.png
[OP warned for NSFW image]


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05.
[Ashes of Love]


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06.
[The essay: here
Mina de Malfois'livejournal: here]


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07.
[Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier]












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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think a lot of people make the same mistake I did the first time: they read Rebecca as a romance. It's not, it's a thriller. Once I removed my romance goggles, it became clear to me from the very first chapter.
Everything I hated about Rebecca the first time around I grew to appreciate the second time round once I understood the method to Du Maurier's "madness". Rebecca is a fantastic thriller with incredibly evocative prose, as long as I read it for what it is, not what I might want it to be.

[(Anonymous)]

That's interesting. Is this book really marketed as a romance in a lot of places? Because I first heard about it when it was an option on my eighth grade reading list, and it was labeled as a mystery. Which I don't think is quite accurate either, but that's what got me interested -- I was big into Agatha Christie at the time. But in the comment thread the other day someone described Rebecca as a gothic novel, and I think that's the most appropriate.

[(Anonymous)]

The late 70s mass-market paperback (which was still the most common one I saw back when I had to get a copy in high school in the 00s) described it as "romantic suspense" and had a very "romance novel" cover design of gold swooping letters overlaid on what I always thought was meant to be red satin bedsheets.
https://grabthelapels.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/rebecca.jpg

A lot of the older pulpy covers do a better job of playing up the thriller/suspense angle.
https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/2200xauto/public/r5.jpg