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  <title><![CDATA[The Stepford Wives]]></title>
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  <default_description>The internationally bestselling novel by the author of &lt;i&gt;A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil,&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Rosemary's Baby&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;center&gt;With an Introduction by Peter Straub&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, &lt;i&gt;The Stepford Wives&lt;/i&gt; is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.&lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1972</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ira Levin]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can handle watching or reading just about any level of horror... so what was it about this tiny little novella that I read in an hour that truly chilled me? First, I have never seen the movies... so I had no real preconceived notions other than having seen the commercials. Something about being a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34937776">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[*** This book is extremely short - I finished it in maybe 3 hours? So if you have 3 hours to kill and enjoyed the original then you might want to pick this up...<br/><br/>I haven't watched the original movie, made in 1975, in years, however I did go watch the new one (with Nicole Kidman and Matthe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68478706">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very cautionary tale for women who aspire to be housewives and quit at thinking for themselves. It made me think about how it is hard and how it hurts to think. Before I was comfortable just rotting gently away in my crummy house, going to work, and let myself be emasculated by those who might lov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67136483">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.<br/><br/>It is interesting to watc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52461673">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You could go ahead and add half a star to my rating. (I wish we had half-star ratings...)<br/><br/>This book is slight and easy to read, so just about anyone could finish it in a couple of hours, and I recommend anyone remotely interested in the story pick it up.<br/><br/>That &quot;everyone kno...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76181861">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56668725">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was really strange, but had a good story line.  I still have some unanswered questions about the end, but with the help of Jayde on the bus ride to the baseball game, I think we figured out most of the issues of the end.  This book was in the horror section, and i really don't see why it w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56668725">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More than twenty years ago when I was in high school, I read The Boys From Brazil, Rosemary's Baby and This Perfect Day. I really enjoyed Ira Levin's Writing style and I've always wanted to read The Stepford Wives.<br/><br/>I read the book in 2 sittings and I liked it very much. I admit, the endin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45008772">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ira Levin is the best - bottom line.  For me, he provides exemplary stories of total and utter betrayal.  Husbands do the most awful things to their wives in Levin's world.  The Stepford Wives is a bit like Rosemary's Baby in the that regard, but the characters in Stepford somehow feel a bit more re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76296878">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those disturbing &quot;what if&quot; novels. What if a man, who supports his wife's desire to be independent, could change that? What if he has the opportunity to turn her into a big breasted, vacuous automaton who only cares about housekeeping, raising children and keeping him sexual...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73374367">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a bad read - thank god Nicole Kidman wasn't in the book version.]]></body>
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    <review id="73141946">
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    <body><![CDATA[Joanne moves to Stepford with her family and starts to notice that all the women are really into their housework.  This is a great quick read.  It isn't too serious and is rather short.  It does have interesting social issues and holds similar themes of his previous novel Rosemary's Baby.  Both Rose...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73141946">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great story, great concept, and a real interesting piece of science fiction.  This story was intrumental in moving me toward a bit of an attitude of feminism.  Though it is fiction, if you look long enough and with an open mind, you can see some of the truth to this fiction in our daily lives, even ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69663843">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great story, great concept, and a real interesting piece of science fiction.  This story was intrumental in moving me toward a bit of an attitude of feminism.  Though it is fiction, if you look long enough and with an open mind, you can see some of the truth to this fiction in our daily lives, even ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65648353">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44814518">
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    <body><![CDATA[Lightning-fast read, had me racing through the last pages to find out what happens even though at this point in culture there's not a person alive who doesn't know the secret behind the Stepford wives' unwavering dedication to grocery shopping and laundry. Here's a spoiler: SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE! ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44814518">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I had to edit my review after re-reading it again. This is a book that definitely deserves to be re-read even if you don't usually re-read books. There's so much little stuff going on at the sides that you don't quite catch the first time through. Like the name of a road. It's very casually mention...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54269823">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read it primarily to find out what the term Stepford wife meant.  I should've just googled it. The book was about life in the 50s when men wanted their wives to be robots who cooked, cleaned, kept a perfect house and made sure they looked their best at all times. I didn't care for the writing styl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42947536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When the new movie came out, I was interested in reading the book. (As it turns out, the 2005? movie sucked, and I borrowed the original 1970's version from the library and wasn't too fond of that either.) The book (of course) turned out to be better, and subtler and more sublime than anything you c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36416811">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kürzlich verstarb Ira Levin, nur wenige Tage vorher hatte ich dieses Buch erworben, dass ich seit dem Anschauen des Filmes (Version von 2004) haben wollte. In Gedenken an Levin habe ich es auch gleich gelesen (was bei mir ja eher selten ist, weil ich sonst immer Bücher lese, die schon eine Weile r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9613303">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was expecting to be really frightened by this book.  After talking with my mother about her reactions to the book and the original movie (I believe it came out in the 50s or 60s), I was expecting this book to send chills down my spine and really freak me out.  Either I have been desensitized by al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4268091">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[First off, I just want to say I think it's funny that the version of this book that doesn't have Nicole Kidman on the cover rates a 4.25 on Goodreads, while the NK version (identical save for the cover) rates a 2.75.<br/><br/>Me, I'm pretty much in the middle.<br/><br/>Right now I'm reading one ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/450413">more...</a>]]></body>
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