Rosemary's Baby
Suppose you were an up-to-date young wife who moved into an old and elegant New York apartment house with a rather strange past. suppose that only after you became pregnant did you begin to suspect the building harbored a diabolically evil group of devil worshippers who had mastered the arts of...
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Suppose you were an up-to-date young wife who moved into an old and elegant New York apartment house with a rather strange past. suppose that only after you became pregnant did you begin to suspect the building harbored a diabolically evil group of devil worshippers who had mastered the arts of black magic and witchcraft. suppose that this satanic conspiracy set out to claim not only your husband but your baby.
Well, that's what happened to Rosemary... Or did it...?
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Format: paperback
ASIN: B000GDYXYA
Publish date: 1968
Publisher: Dell
Pages no: 218
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...
7 years ago
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