**warning to all for the version with ISBN: 9781849015899* Don't read the introduction!!Great the Introduction of the book spoiled the whole book for me. They tell us exactly what happens and what the end is. Which is a shame, I never saw the movie or read the book and now I don't really feel like r...
The suburbs are creepy, man.I actually enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would. Levin's prose is very simple and the book is quite short (more a novella, really), making it an easy and quick read. There is still a lot of substance, though, and themes that stand up well -- it barely feels...
It first hit me on page 81, I was bored. So very, very bored. My main problem and probably the reason I'm so disappointed can be summed up this way, on the back of the book there is this a praise by Stephen King:"Every novel [Ira Levin] has ever written has been a marvel of plotting. He is the Swiss...
A good enough story, but I was glad that the book only had 151 pages. Levin did a good job as not to drag the plot along, what he easily could have done, with a story like this. Some parts I thought were made to be a movie, and that is one thing I didn’t like about the book. Some parts, especially...
Having already seen the movie starring Nicole Kidman, I knew the plot of the book already so I expected not to be surprised or disturbed. Boy, was I wrong! Being female and having felt various degrees of pressure to conform to a more stereotypical and traditional feminine role, this book spoke to th...
Ira Levin has a very atypical writing style - at least in this book. At first I thought I'd been unfortunate enough to find an edition that had been adapted from the screenplay, because the writing was so disjointed/simple at times, but no - this was how Levin intended for it to be written. I really...
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