Rosemary's Baby
by:
Ira Levin (author)
Stephen King (contributor)
Described by Truman Capote as a "darkly brillian tale of modern deviltry... that induces the reader to believe the unbelievable," Rosemary's Baby was both a critical and a popular success when it first appeared in 1967. And in his introduction to this exclusive Stephen King Horror Library...
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Described by Truman Capote as a "darkly brillian tale of modern deviltry... that induces the reader to believe the unbelievable," Rosemary's Baby was both a critical and a popular success when it first appeared in 1967. And in his introduction to this exclusive Stephen King Horror Library edition, King discusses Levin's skill as "the Swiss watchmaker of the suspense novel," and expresses his utter admiration for the way the novel takes urban paranoia to the next level - sheer terror.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780965723176 (0965723178)
Publish date: 2003
Publisher: The Stephen King Horror Library
Pages no: 245
Edition language: English
Series: Rosemary's Baby (#1)
I have never watched the Mia Farrow movie adaption of this book, but I know that is a classic horror movie. Because of that I´m surprised that this book left me with lukewarm feelings. My main issue with this book was that the strong and intense second part of the novel was bogged down by the lame...
All they eat in this book is milk and meat and starch.Just as long as it needs to be, with a sense of spiraling claustrophobia and absurdity. I need to read more Ira Levin.
Die Sprache ist zwar etwas simpel, aber die Geschichte hat mich sehr gepackt. Ira Levin arbeitet über weite Strecken des Romans ganz großartig mit Suspense. Der Leser weiß (so er den Film nicht gesehen hat und noch nie was über das Buch gehört hat) bis zum letzten Kapitel nicht, ob all dieser Horror...
Rosemary's Baby is not very scary but it was pretty strange and I enjoyed it. Rosemary and her husband were really wanting to get into the Bramford apartment complex and right when they had signed a lease on another apartment it becomes available and Rosemary begs her husband Guy to get them out of ...
I think I remember some comments about how the movie was a campy style of horror. It left me completely unprepared for this read.This is horror alright. I'm unsettled while writing this, actually. I think it's that most of it is more or less plausible. You take away the supernatural bits, and it wou...
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