I'm not sure why Du Maurier is held in such high regard. I was never hooked like I am with horror writers waiting in expectation for the next story. For some reason, I guess because none of the stories were really gripping, it took me a long time to finish the entire book. I hated the ending.ĭu Maurier's writing style and the stories' vocabulary and metaphor seemed somewhat dumbed down to appeal to a larger audience than a more literary style would have appealed to. Monte Verita was really long and just average as a story goes. Once you figured out the schtick (and you will, quickly) it was just boring and overlong. Blue Lenses, one of Du Maurier's more celebrated stories, I thought was pretty weak. Split Second and Kiss Me Again, Stranger were both very good with the latter having a great twist at the end. The plot is so hackneyed I knew what the ending would be when the "mysterious" ship appeared. I liked the more ambiguous ending better. I thought that The Birds was better, more menacing, than the Hitchcock film of the same name. Don't Look Now and The Birds were pretty good but having seen the films many times certainly took much away some of the suspense. I wasn't overly impressed with this collection of stories.
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