The Birds and Other Stories

I bought a copy of this book for myself and liked the author’s style. My copy went in my guest room library. Which I keep for guests and they are allowed to take a book from if they enjoyed reading it or are in the process of reading it when they leave.I decided to send a copy to my friend and she said she was up until the wee hours reading several of the stories.

I bought this for a friend of mine for Christmas and she loves it! She is a HUGE fan of Hitchcock's "The Birds" and I really wanted to get her something related to it. Knowing it was based on a short story - it was a no-brainer! Excellent cover art. She has promised to loan it to me after she's read all of the other stories. I'm eager. In fact, I need to remind her!!!

I have enjoyed Daphne du Maurier's other works and am a huge fan of Hitchcock's movie The Birds so when I found out that the story is based on du Maurier's short story I had to get the book.Be prepared the movie is NOTHING like the book - well, there are lots of birds in both stories but there the resemblance ends. I liked the story as much as I liked the movie. As I mentioned both are very different one is set in the Cornish countryside and one is set on the California Coast. Both are dark but I think the story is darker for what it doesn't have - there is so much that is left to the reader's imagination. My favorite story is probably Monte Verità.These stories showcase why du Maurier should be considered a horror writer. She does a terrific job of making the average appear/could be/possibly horrific.

really good short stories, great to ad to a DM collection

This is an excellent audiobook contains two short stories by Daphne du Maurier. They are both great stories. "The Birds" is the basis for the Hitchcock movie of the same name. I had never heard of "Don't Look Now". If anything I liked it more than "The Birds". These are the first two works by Daphne du Maurier that I have read. I have been meaning to read some of her work for some time. I have a novel "Rebecca" that I intend to read in the near future.Both of the readings of these audiobooks are very professionally done. The narrators added emphasis and emotion and added to my simultaneous reading. I was completely pleased and have purchased another series of short stories based on these two stories.The short story "The Birds" was identical to my Kindle copy. The reason I mention this is that I found in my study that there may be another version of "The Birds" with a more graphic ending. If there is, I have yet to come across it. Thank You....

Very good author I picked this up because I wanted to see where Hitchcock got his inspiration for The Birds film. The story is of course nothing like the movie, but you're in for a treat with this collection of short stories. I couldn't help but laugh at The Apple Tree story the way these stories are written it's hard to put down and you actually learn some valuable lessons from them as well! I highly recommend this book!

Daphne Du Maurier writes subtle, brilliant short stories. Her descriptions are so realistic you have a sense ofbeing there in the story. I loved that the first story The Birds was the inspiration of Alfred Hitchcock’spopular movie of the same name. Enjoying the other short stories that provide a sense of being there, as in the story Monte Verita, involving friends whose greatest enjoyment comes from mountain climbing.

This edition is far superior to NYRB w selecteds by McGrath. It has one of DdMs best stories, "The Apple Tree," in which a likeable widower finds that the gnarled tree in his yard has taken on the sagging and great martyr complex of his unlamented wife. He must chop down the tree ! (At what cost?)Another, "The Little Photographer." Dangerous fun. A beautiful & bored wife whose marriage, after 2 tots, lacks passion, indulges in a squash w a disabled younger man who takes the "romance" seriously. When he threatens to tell All to her husby, what's the poor darling to do? Murder ! She'll forever be haunted x the Lost Moment.Why do dimwit editors always include DdMs worst story, "Monte Verita" ?A married woman cannot resist the "call" of a mysterious cult where women are promised agelessness. She vanishes into a mountain. What happens there ? I have no idea but all the dames soon have short boyish hair cuts. Hey, James Hilton, I am reminded of your Tibetan paradise, which I hated, in the Valley of the Blue Moon. This DdM is d'Embarrassment.Jealousy, revenge, hidden desires dominate the startling and, at times, horrific DdM stories that carry the chilled helplessness of life.