Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780451194725
ISBN number: 0451194721
Label: Onyx
Manufacturer: Onyx
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: September 01, 1998
Publishing house: Onyx
Sale Popularity Level: 134829
Studio: Onyx
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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....
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"Son of Rosemary", Ira Levin's 1999 follow-up to the wonderful "Rosemary's Baby", was not as horrible as I expected but was much worse than I hoped. Gone is the subtle nuances and shadowy tension of the original novel. Instead, Levin who attempts to re-create the mysterious intensions of his characters and fails, pushes forth an unbelievable plot with characters lacking any sort of common sense.
The major problem with "Son of Rosemary" is that Ira Levin introduces a scenario that is so unbelievable in such a quick fashion that the story has no chance of credibility right from the beginning. Rosemary who wakes from a thirty-three year coma finds her son has grown into a charismatic international celebrity leading a group called God's Children (GC). With the new millennium approaching, the GC has organized a worldwide show of solidarity with Rosemary's son Andy as the messiah. The implausibility of the world rallying around a pseudo spiritual leader like Andy with everyone wearing "I love Andy" buttons and watching GC specials on TV was laughable. Of course with no back story this premise is thrust upon the reader in a few pages and seems so manufactured that the novel never recovers.
Another issue is that Rosemary does not resemble the character we were concerned about so many years ago. After thirty-three years in a coma Rosemary accepts her son's new role so quickly that she is doing press conferences, interviews, attending staff meetings and producing television spots for the GC. Huh? What happened to Guy? What happened to her friends? What happened to the father of Andy? For a woman absent from the world for so long and the mother of the son of the devil, she sure doesn't have any problems assimilating herself into her new life. She does worry shallowly about Andy's intentions, but is just as pleased to overlook a myriad of susceptible behavior by her son and those around him.
The ending that has so enraged many readers was in fact quite clever and the only redeeming portion of the novel. The reader needs to recognize what is actually happening instead of just accepting Rosemary's explanation. I found the ending (really there are two endings) good and creative but not good enough to rescue the implausibility of the rest of the novel.
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I was so happy when I accidentally came across this book. I LOVED both the original book and the movie with John Cassavetes and Mia Farrow, so I was thrilled to find out that a sequel had been written so many years later.
I wish I had never seen this book. After I finished reading it, I felt so angry. How dare anyone -- let alone the original author -- totally tear down the ENTIRE plot of the original story, which was so perfectly written and filmed.
I promptly threw this book in the trash, where it belongs. I couldn't even bring myself to sell it. I wouldn't want any fan to experience the extreme disappointment and anger that I did.
Appalling!
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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 confusing, and there was absolutely no suspense. The only slightly compelling aspect of the plot was Andy's moral uncertainty, being half human and half devil, torn between the destructive grand schemes of his father, and the love and innocence of his mother. However, the ending didn't deliver and I felt let down that I had gotten through the whole of this substandard novel only to encounter an even more disappointing conclusion. Mind you, it's a quick read, but it doesn't leave its reader anything to dwell on or savor.
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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 writing career.
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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 a dream, and the Bram is now the Dakota, which was black, which is now pink? Huh? Musings of a senile old man, if you ask me. So, it never happened? This kind of reminds me of the way they ended "St. Elsewhere" as a dream in an autistic child's snowglobe. Another WTF moment. Please, send this awful story back to whence it came-the depths of hell!
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