He has his father's eyes...

[narfnitsirk]

It’s all in the perspective. We all know the plot of Rosemary’s Baby. Even if we didn’t know how it ends, we’d be picking up the book, and getting some context from the cover. The title of mine is printed in a menacing green font with a pair of red inhuman eyes (that look nothing like Adrian/Andrew’s at the end of the book). The tagline reads “

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Hmmm

[calieav]

"It’s so easy to read the book and think “She’s so stupid, how can she not see what’s going on?” I think, if this exact set of circumstances happened to any of us, we would behave just like Rosemary did."

Do you really think so? Perhaps its the age I'm at - or my history of relationships, but I like to think I would've left. (But then I work in theater - so I'm especially intolerant of self-obsessed actors.)

I do agree with you on the pace of the book - I too thought it was beautifully handled - a nice building of pace in an upward motion throughout.

Calie

From Scott

[anonymous]

I think it's all subjective to your upbringing. Rosemary was obviously raised to believe that she had to stay, that she needed to be someone's wife to be complete, and that putting up with crap like she did was normal. For the majority of us here, in 2010, the notion of putting up with that much emotional abuse is poppycock. That's right, I said poppycock.

I think this book works on so many levels, and is a testament to the time period. I also feel like Levin did a great job of creating characters that, while at times annoying, really speaks to the reader.

[anonymous]

Jared says:

This story is a tigtening wire around the spine. I still like to think that it might still have all been in her mind.

Rosemary's Baby

[anonymous]

I think the normalcy of Rosemary's everyday life and how Levin slowly weaves the horror of her situation into it, is what makes it a wonderful study in terror and as you've noted, tension building. I agree that the movie adaptation was pretty true to the story, even down to a lot of the dialogue. - Swea