false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172885268m/228296.jpg 228296 36 When published in 1967, <I>Rosemary's Baby</I> was one of the first contemporary horror novels to become a national bestseller. Ira Levin's second novel (he went on to write such fine thrillers as <I>A Kiss Before Dying</I>, <I>The Stepford Wives</I>, and <I>The Boys from Brazil</I>), <I>Rosemary's Baby</I>, remains perhaps his best work. The author's mainstream "this is how it really happened" style undeniably also made the novel his most widely imitated. The plot line is deceptively simple: What if you were a happily married young woman, living in New York, and one day you awoke to find yourself pregnant? And what if your loving husband had--apparently--sold your soul to Satan? And now you were beginning to believe that your unborn child was, in reality, the son of Satan? Levin subtly makes it all totally plausible, unless of course, dear Rosemary--or the reader--can no longer distinguish fantasy from reality! A wonderfully chilling novel, it was later faithfully transformed into an equally unnerving motion picture. In 1997, a sequel was spawned, <I>Son of Rosemary</I>. <I>--Stanley Wiater</I> 883024 1967 Rosemary's Baby total:2323|5:531|4:880|3:694|2:181|1:37| 2323 8656 2960 202 4 5 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 08 06:11:46 -0700 2007 Tue May 08 11:07:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 3 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 07:42:27 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 07:53:50 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 13:01:33 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 13:08:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 22 02:46:20 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 22 02:47:21 -0800 2007 A Kiss Before Dying, The Stepford Wives, and The Boys from Brazil), Rosemary's Baby, remains perhaps his best ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 17:24:32 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 12:27:18 -0700 2008 If you have managed to live this long without knowing how this book ends, read no further. Major spoilers are on the way!

This first 90% of this book is masterful. Ira Levin does a brilliant job, via a limited-omniscient narrative POV, of creating a feeling of paranoid claustrophobia as...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Tue Jan 13 15:06:53 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 15:08:58 -0800 2009 3 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Mon Jan 26 19:11:01 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 19:13:54 -0800 2009 4 1 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 07:00:23 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 11:02:20 -0700 2009 And as for Guy; I hate him w/a passion & hope he burns in hell. :)]]> 3 0 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 11:34:49 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 11:34:49 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 14:33:35 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 14:37:57 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 19 12:38:27 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 16:37:12 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 12:38:27 -0800 2009
A quick read... barely 200 pages it was packed full of goodness just like the movie. Ok goodness isn't the word obviously. I'l like to think in this modern world the modern mom would have a different ending. Because I know if I were Rosemary the outcome of this book would have b...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sun Mar 29 11:54:30 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 12:01:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Dec 05 16:35:10 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 16:36:40 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 02 16:08:33 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 16 11:19:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 12:47:37 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 12:50:27 -0800 2008
the gave more of a back brief, as usual, and that help understand the characters alot better. i was surprised to see that the film followed the ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 22 08:06:43 -0800 2008 Sat Sep 26 08:07:56 -0700 2009
Rosemary desperately wants a baby and Guy is busy with his career as a rising actor. Guy is not very ...more...]]> 4 0 false true Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 11:38:35 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 06:56:54 -0700 2008
So, The Thorn Birds was a "beach book" in the sense that you could take it with you on vacation and it would make a good weeklong read, clocking in at about 700 dense pages. You could carry it down to the beach every da...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jun 14 10:22:44 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 15 13:45:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 08:39:10 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 12:10:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 19 12:51:00 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 19 12:56:21 -0800 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=228296