Rosemary's Baby

A Novel

mass market paperback, 218 pages

English language

Published Sept. 18, 1973 by Fawcett.

OCLC Number:
2533537

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3 stars (6 reviews)

She is a housewife—young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor—charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sun-filled apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is their dream home—a dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare. . . . Enter the chilling world of Ira Levin—where terror is as near as your new neighbors . . . and where evil wears the most innocent face of all. . . . --front flap

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Review of "Rosemary's Baby" on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

I've changed my rating twice while typing out this review... My first thought was that I wanted to like it more than I did. I mean, the beginning was slow and boring but once it got going, I couldn't stop listening. Yes, it's from the 60s so there were plenty of patting the nice, young woman on the head and the husband laying down the law, and racist descriptions, of course.

Rosemary ended up being much stronger than I figured she would be. Sort of. I mean, until the very end. I need to live with the story a bit more. I won't lie, I'm tempted to read the next book in the series.

I listened to the Audible version and the sound quality left a lot to be desired. Mia Farrow's acting and voices were good but it sounded like it was recorded a few decades ago. How about …

Review of "Rosemary's Baby" on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Ok, so I didn't totally hate this book, but i didn't love it either. I just finished it about 10 minutes or so ago, and I'm actually kind of mad at it. First of all, satanists and witches are not at all the same thing. Secondly, it's very predictable. I knew nothing of the plot of this book before reading it, and i've never seen the movie because i hate scary movies, and I guessed that the sweet old people next door were devil worshipers way before Rosemary thought of it. It is extremely well written though, so I'll give it that. Maybe I'll feel better about it later once vie had more time to digest this book. I cant wait to hear what the ladies at book club think.

Subjects

  • Horror stories.
  • Spirit possession -- Fiction.