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by: Ira Levin
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451194725
ISBN: 0451194721
Label: Onyx
Manufacturer: Onyx
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: September 01, 1998
Publisher: Onyx
Sales Rank: 386882
Studio: Onyx
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Product Description:
International bestselling author Ira Levin returns to the horror of his 1967 ground-breaking novel Rosemary's Baby with this terrifying sequel set at the dawn of the Millennium! Thirty-three years ago, Rosemary gave birth to the Devil's child while under the control of an evil, satanic cult. Now the year is 1999, and humanity dreads the approaching 21st Century, desperately in search of a savior for this troubled world. In New York City, Rosemary's son Andy is believed to be that savior. But is he the force of good his followers accept him to be? Or is he his father's son? Rosemary and Andy will be reunited in a battle of good versus evil which will decide the fate of the world and of humanity....
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Mediocre at best
Written thirty years after the hugely successful Rosemary's Baby, this sequel is not the wonderfully creepy book the that its predecessor was. Rosemary wakes from a coma just before the dawn of the new millennium to find her son Andy a worldwide phenomenon spreading his message of peace, unity, and love. But of course, only he and Rosemary know his true heritage and Rosemary seeks to discover if there are ulterior motives to his altruistic plan.
The writing was choppy, sometimes ... Read More
Rating:  - Why Zero Stars Should Be an Option
Place this one at the top of the list of sequels that never should have been written. The plot is ridiculous and the writing abysmal, coming nowhere near the brilliance of the original book, which Levin ultimately dismisses with an unexpected plot twist that leaves the reader dumbfounded and angry. Furthermore, his failure to reveal the anagram of ROAST MULES, which he continually touts as a key element of the story, is frustrating and inexcusable. What a tragic way to end what was an otherwise noteworthy ... Read More
Rating: - Son of Ira
This book should never have been written-shame on Ira Levin. Was he senile when he wrote it or just hard up for money? I kept on reading, hoping for the same tension that kept me on the edge of my seat when I read the original. I was sadly disappointed. And when the climax finally came(Joe nobody is Satan?-why?)it seemed lame. Adrian(Andrew) is nailed to the wall? Talk about your cliches. And I found the whole "Strawberry fields" thing preposterous(poor John Lennon). Then the ending, when it was all ... Read More
Rating: - Save Yourself -- It's Too Late for Me..
... because I was foolish enough to ignore the bad reviews on this page, and read the book anyway.
I've tried to understand what would motivate Levin to write crap like this, and the only answer I can come up with is that he wanted to cash in on all the "end of the world" millenialism that was floating around in 1997. His previous authorship of _Rosemary's_Baby_ gave him a ready audience for a sequel. Clearly this was a money-making opportunity too good to pass up.
The book is pathetic. ... Read More
Rating: - Unpublishably Bad, Stinkier than tannis, and what can only be a Final Joke
Besides the ridiculous dialogue, unbelievable reactions to situations (e.g. a mother's nonchalant reaction to when her son wants to have sex with her, etc., etc.), and flat, lifeless characters (all of them), what annoyed me most about this book was the utterly sloppy writing. Some sentences just didn't make any sense; they appear in a paragraph, but don't make any sense in that paragraph. It's as if Ira Levin was making some random notes, threw them together, and then forgot he was trying to write a novel. Appallingly ... Read More
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