Miriam's on Medical LeaveI am reading du Maurier's Rebecca and all I want to do is strangle the protagonist.
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Why the old-school horror of The Birds speaks to 21st-century anxieties | CBC Radio
Fears of technological overreach, environmental decline, and the violent rise of the irrational: our 21st-century anxieties were anticipated in an unlikely 20th-century horror metaphor. "The Birds" — a haunting 1953 short story by Daphne duMaurier, and the truly bizarre 1963 Alfred Hitchcock movie that it inspired.
Hari TulsidasDaphne du Maurier’s The Birds predicted an environmental crisis 70 years ago. The short story inspired Hitchcock’s film, depicting a violent bird attack on a Cornish farm. The story links the bird behaviour to the impact of technological developments after World War II. The story warns of the consequences of disrupting nature and ignoring its signs.
DrS@bookstodon Ok, I’m finished it now. I enjoyed it overall, there’s a lot to take in with it. The narrator irritated me, but the writing brought the house to life.
Maybe I should have left more time after reading Babel though as the descriptions of everyday English upper class life were pretty grating.
I’m reading Rebecca for the first time, and alternately enjoying it and hating it.
Trying to keep in mind it’s of its time, I’m reading it as a confident woman, not a young adult, and it’s clearly been hugely influential on many stories afterwards.
Everything’s building up to the finale now.
#CurrentlyReading Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.
I’m not often in the mood for a ‘classic’ but I’ve heard many people say it’s worth reading.
(Sorry to the other books I’m midway through).
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