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| AUTHOR: | Ira Levin |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Signet Book |
| ISBN: | 0451194004 |
| TYPE: | Fiction, Fiction - Horror, General, Horror - General |
| MEDIA: | Mass Market Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of Rosemary's Baby
A good plain tale. Horror stories are best when they creep up on you. It is not necessary to resort to gutwrenchingly gross images or so much as spin your head around. Horror is about primordial feelings and emotions. Shirley Jackson knew about this. Here, Ira Levin takes an age-old idea -- the mother pregnant through supernatural means -- and puts a modern spin on it. We are drawn in so subtly that we think we're reading a plain novel, but the hints are scattered all through. We come to understand the nature of Rosemary's pregnancy long before Rosemary begins to suspect that anything is untoward. And when she does learn the truth about her neighbours, she jumps to an understandable erroneous conclusion that ensures the coven's success. We are left to wonder: do they ever actually perform the ceremonies that Rosemary fears? Brilliant. Read this, see the movie (closely based on the book) and leave "Son of Rosemary" quite alone.
A pregnant woman discovers a satanic sacrifice plot
Rosemarys Baby is extremely easy to read and you will get through the book in no time at all. It is short, about 200 pages and is pretty much more of a novella than a full bloodied horror manuscript. None the less - it is still extremely satisfying and the size and depth of the story is particularly suitable for the subject matter at hand.
The plot revolves around the newly wed Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse who have moved into a huge apartment in a building known as the Bramford in New York. Rosemary wants children and Guy, an actor, wants to further his career. Hutch, a friend of Rosemary, tells her that the Bramford is a "danger zone" because of previous murders, suicides and diabolical deeds that have gone on there in the past. Sure enough many of these atrocities slowly begin to unveil themselves much to the dismay of Rosemary. Guy sees these events as just a coincidence and the elderly occupants who live in the Bramford seem to be all too innocent to be involved in plotting murders or faking suicides.
Eventually everything settles down and Rosemary gets pregnant during a nightmare that has her confused but she gradually calms down to prepare for her new born but not without the smothering attention of her neighbors who pop around twenty times a day to help her out. Rosemary casually begins to notice things in the Bramford or about its occupants in passing and slowly suspicion begins to develop in her mind that all may not be as it seems.
There is a classic mystery lurking behind the more horrific avenues found in this great story as Rosemary slowly unravels the unknown which seems to have a diabolical nature. Doctors hint that her pregnancy may be causing undue stress and the reader is left guessing right up until the last few pages as to if there is a plot to sacrifice her baby or if she is going mad in some sort of prenatal depression. The ending is a total shock to the uninformed reader!
Roman Polanski also directed the film version of this book. Both the film and book are excellent choices of entertainment.
Highly recommended original horror!
A chilling tale!
Ira Levin is the master of horror, conveying the dark side of ordinary everyday life in suspenseful and terrifying ways. With The Stepford Wives he took on the issue of feminism and created a pop culture phenomenon still relevant over 30 years later. Rosemary's Baby has to be one of his best novels, a dark and brooding suspense shocker about a housewife's descent into a dark world of satanic worship. To say any more would be to give away the suspense and shocks like only Levin could provide.
Rosemary is a brilliant heroine, real and emotional and it is so easy for the reader to relate. I found myself identifying with her and rooting for her to get through the madness her life takes on after moving into a popular apartment building with a history of evil. Levin slowly closes in on the horror, suffocating the reader as they try to unravel the mystery. The villians are more terrifying than any I have come across in literature because they are real people doing unreal things, which adds an effective creepiness to the story.
This is a terrific page-turner and one of the most twisted and disturbing novels I have ever read. I also like the movie, although I wish it had a darker tone like the book, but have not read the sequel, Son of Rosemary, which is supposed to be awful. It is such a short book, reading it won't take much time. This one is highly recommended.