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Jul 25, 2023 06:48PM
An oldie. I'm curious about what brought you to this one.
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Lisa wrote: "An oldie. I'm curious about what brought you to this one."Movies that used to repeatedly play on TV while I was growing up often have books connected to them - right? - and I guess it's one of those titles that have been floating around at the edges of my awareness for a long time. Never sat through the entire original movie and didn't bother with the remake either, yet the story was casually known to me. The same could likely be said of The Island of Doctor Moreau, for instance. Seeing how I don't read to be surprised so much as to be charmed, I'm enjoying Ira Levin's book, right now. It's solid writing. The novel had been sitting on my magic table for a good long while; that's a side table with small piles of upcoming reads and a couple of orchids. The Stepford Wives' turn finally came up! You've read it, right?
Charles wrote: "Lisa wrote: "An oldie. I'm curious about what brought you to this one."Movies that used to repeatedly play on TV while I was growing up often have books connected to them - right? - and I guess i..."
Yes, I read it so many years ago, as a teen in the late 1970's. This is one of those Book of the Month selections I purloined from my father's book shelf. I am wondering how it holds up in the current times and through adult eyes.,
Lisa wrote: "Yes, I read it so many years ago, as a teen in the late 1970's. This is one of those Book of the Month selections I purloined from my father's book shelf. I am wondering how it holds up in the current times and through adult eyes."It's fun to imagine the impression this might have made on a teenage mind at the time. I find there's often a clarity in writing when I pick up a book from that general era, and in that department Levin certainly doesn't disappoint; crisp, flowing prose and straightforward ideas are an absolute joy at the moment, for this reader. So you could say I'm enjoying the delivery as well as the grown-up fable. A tidy housewife still carries power as a marketing image, in this day and age, so we're not to the point where this would feel totally antiquated yet.
