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Originally Posted by ReadingManiac
Let me know if the other stories in the collection are up to scratch.
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I finished The Birds. Overall, I liked it. Daphne Du Maurier is a very good writer. My favorite stories were The Birds, The Apple Tree and Kiss Me Again, Stranger. They aren't really horror stories. Some of them aren't even traditional suspense stories. They are typically stories where something is slightly off.
Also, be aware that these aren't really short stores. Four of the stories clock in at about a hundred pages each.
The one thing I didn't like about her stories was likely a sign of the times they were written in. It was that British upper crust superiority. Referring to locals and servants as ignorant peasants with dumb looks on their faces. That was really only a problem on Monte Verita (which took me forever to read, because I didn't care for the protagonists) and The Little Photographer (which I liked in spite of it).
At any rate, I'd recommend the book and would read more from her.