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| Title | : | Rosemary's Baby (Rosemary's Baby #1) |
| Author | : | Ira Levin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 308 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 1997 by Signet (first published March 12th 1967) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Classics. Thriller. Mystery. Fantasy. Paranormal |
Ira Levin
Hardcover | Pages: 308 pages Rating: 4 | 105206 Users | 3498 Reviews
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”She opened her eyes and looked into yellow furnace-eyes, smelled sulphur and tannis root, felt wet breath on her mouth, heard lust-grunts and the breathing of onlookers.”Nightmare? Passionate dream? Real? How could it be real? It can’t possibly be real.
Rosemary Woodhouse wants a baby. She is married to an actor named Guy. They have recently broken another lease to take an apartment in the exclusive Bramford Building. Guy, who glibly uses his acting skills to spin stories, has no difficulty extracting them from the first lease to take the open apartment in the Bramford. After all, that is what Rosemary wants.
Whenever any of us look back on our lives, we can usually point to a specific moment in time when we made one decision that sent us down a pathway that led us, hopefully, only briefly, astray from the pursuit of happiness. None of us, or maybe I should say few of us, can see the future. We have to make our best guess, hopefully based on more logic than a hope of luck. The apartment at the Bramford had more Gothic overtones, detailed woodwork, and certainly a more interesting location than the other apartments the Woodhouses had looked at. Although smaller than some of the other places, having a hip apartment, especially to young pseudo-intellectuals, is much more important than a few extra square feet of space.
They should have kept the first lease on the other apartment.
I can’t help but think of Bram Stoker every time the Bramford name dances before my eyes on the pages of this book. Strange things have routinely happened in this apartment building. Unexplained, sometimes brutal, deaths have occurred too frequently to be ignored, especially if you are an inquisitive man, such as Rosemary’s dear friend Edward Hutchins. He, on further investigation, finds that there are far more sinister stories surrounding the history of that building than are known by the general public. He discourages Rosemary from continuing to live there, but she is a rational, modern woman who doesn’t believe that a building can have sinister connotations.
Polanski used the Dakota for the outside shots of the Bramwell building.
She might ignore the past and the warnings that come with it, but she does feel flutters of unease that are based more on what can easily be quantified as primordial superstition than on any real basis of fact. Coincidences do happen and can seem ominous or alarming to someone who is already hearing the tap tap tap of paranoia on the door of reason.
Their next door neighbors are Roman and Minnie Castevet, who seem to be a well meaning, overly friendly, almost smothering, older couple. They are delighted to hear the news when Rosemary is pregnant. They suggest a more fashionable obstetrician and even a different regimen of vitamin enriched drinks than what her previous doctor had recommended. Rosemary goes along because Guy is so insistent, but the longer it goes on, the more suspicious she becomes of everyone’s motives.
Run, Rosemary, run!
I’ve been wanting to read this book for years. I’ve put off watching the famous movie by Roman Polanski because I wanted to read the book first. The story has become such a classic icon that people know the bare bones of the story without ever having read the book or seen the movie. The pacing of the book is simply a superb example of a writer who knows how to build tension and unease. By the time Rosemary is approaching the bassinet to see her baby for the first time, I was biting my knuckles, and the hackles on the back of my neck were not only raised but vibrating. I know what she is going to see, but until I read the words, I can hold off fully realizing the implications.
I loved the fact that Rosemary is a reader. Two books that were mentioned that stand out were Flight of the Falcon by Daphne Du Maurier and The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. I love it when books are part of the lives of the characters I read about. I’m a huge fan of Du Maurier and plan to read Rosemary’s choice soon. I was even more impressed by her taking on Gibbon. I have six volumes of Gibbon staring me in the face every time I pick my next book to read. Yes, yes, I will read Gibbon. I must read Gibbon to call myself a reasonably educated man.
Rosemary’s Baby was published in 1967, the year of my birth, and has held up superbly, certainly much better than I have. It is a quick, flashy read that will give chills and thrills to all but the most jaded modern reader.
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| Original Title: | Rosemary's Baby |
| ISBN: | 0451194004 (ISBN13: 9780451194008) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Rosemary's Baby #1, Βιβλιοθήκη του Τρόμου #27 |
| Characters: | Rosemary Woodhouse, Guy Woodhouse, Minnie Castevet, Roman Castevet |
| Setting: | New York City, New York(United States) Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (1968) |
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Ratings: 4 From 105206 Users | 3498 ReviewsCriticize Regarding Books Rosemary's Baby (Rosemary's Baby #1)
Since I saw Roman Polansky 1968 film adaptation I knew that I had to read also the novel..After having read the book, I can say that Polansky has done a pretty good job in his film!!The film still remains one of my all time favorites..I have devoured the novel, and was hooked from the first page on!!The plot of the story is widely known, Satanists managed to lure and manipulate a young and fresh married couple for their sinister purposes..Witchcraft, Satanism, witches and the dark power they canThis is why I will never have children.
I would like to start of this review by posting a special NOTICE for folks who own this novel from THE STEPHEN KING HORROR LIBRARY and have not read the novel before. DO NOT read the forward by Stephen King until after you have read the novel. I love King. I love King's analysis and opinions on things. But this is the first time that I have read something written by Stephen King that made me want to punch the man in the face. I don't mean that literally of course, but it's the best way that I
The horror of this book is not the devil, nor his baby-demon. The horror of this book is represented by the corrupt, deranged mortals who surround Rosemary, all of them led by Guy, her husband. He sold his wife's body for success. He drugged her, stood there and watched his wife being rapped by the devil.He stood there and watched her conceive the devil's child... and getting tortured by the creature inside her for months. And he stood there and watched while Rosemary was being used as a cow to
Could anyone know when an actor was true and not acting? This review is going to contain some minor spoilers, because I just assumed that the majority of people has seen the movie anyway (like I did), or at least knows what the story is about.I must admit that, if I wouldn't know how the plot of Rosemary's Baby was going to progress, I would have stopped reading this book after the first few chapters. The tension is definitely slowly built in this one, maybe a little too slowly; but when it
Theres nothing to be afraid of, Rosemary; honest and truly there isnt. If you've seen the movie, you've basically read the book. I never realized what a faithful adaptation Polanski made, down to entire passages of dialogue and what clothes the characters wore. That said, both the book and the movie are fantastic.I have to give the movie the slight edge due to Mia Farrow's outstanding performance, but I had a great time reading this.
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