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    Jamaica Inn

    Written by Daphne Du Maurier

    Narrated by Tony Britton

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    About this audiobook

    "A fine romantic tale...rich in suspense and surprise." --New York Times Book Review

    On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls -- and tempted to love a man she dares not trust.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateAug 19, 2014
    ISBN9781478956297
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    Jamaica Inn
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    Daphne Du Maurier

    Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989) has been called one of the great shapers of popular culture and the modern imagination. Among her more famous works are The Scapegoat, Jamaica Inn, Rebecca, and the short story "The Birds," all of which were subsequently made into films—the latter three directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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    • 1/5
      I've just finished reading this book and I have to say I have rather mixed feelings about it.

      (For what it's worth, I decided to chase it down here at the Brooklyn Public Library after I'd seen both versions of "Straw Dogs." I was simply curious to know something about a story that had gotten so much directorial/cinematic attention.)

      My overall reaction? I think that Sam Pekinpah's original version (with Dustin Hoffman and Susan George) was better than Rod Lurie's version (with Alexander Skarsgård and Kate Bosworth), and that both film versions were better than Gordon Williams's book.

      Obviously, it takes a good story (or at least a well-written script) -- just for starters -- to make a good movie. And Gordon Williams's story is not without its virtues.

      But I, for one, struggled continually with a little thing called 'pronominal reference' -- i. e., I just didn't know exactly who was the author of a particular action much of the time, and consequently had to go back and re-read -- sometimes, paragraphs at a time -- to figure it out. This, to my way of thinking, is not star-quality story-telling.

      I also couldn't authenticate a lot of the dialect he uses for the principal antagonists in this story. It's a British vernacular I've not only never heard, but also can't imagine.

      All of the above notwithstanding, the story is an entertaining one. I would simply suggest that you skip the book and see Sam Peckinpah's film version of "Straw Dogs."

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    • 2/5
      Sam Peckinpah is quoted on the blurb saying "this book makes you want to drown in your own puke", which is obviously what he drew from it to go on to make his viscerally disturbing exploitation flick. But it seems almost as if he was reading a different book to the one I read. The violence in the novel isn't gratuitous and the motivation of the villagers becoming a mob is credible. The pacifism/liberalism of the protagonist isn't handled particularly convincingly. Also, the moral compass and sexual politics of the novel are clumsy and suspect, but the plotting is tight and the action unremitting.

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