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Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
I listened to Mia Farrow's audiobook narration and immediately fell in love with Rosemary Woodhouse. I like the movie, and it is very well made, but I personally would pick the book any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
I feel deeply for Rosemary in the book. I don't know what it would be like to go in blind, but for me with my knowledge, Rosemary becomes almost like a classic tragic hero, a MacBeth, or Hamlet, or one of those women saints who are only loved for their martyrdom. But unlike those characters Rosemary is, as she herself says, ordinary. She's another woman in NYC who us experimenting with feminism, atheism, and being a modern woman. She's simple and plain and ordinary in her wants and all the more beautiful for it.
I have a sort of obsession with second wave feminism and horror and the small acts of rebellion that women do
Rosemary almost always acquiesce to Guy's demands, but it is through a small act of rebellion when she only pretends to finish the drugged pudding, that ultimately allows her to grasp the ending.
I just love her. Movie-her is fine, but it's clear that Polankski is far more interested in the sinister plot (and Mia Farrow's nipples) than in beautiful ordinary Rosemary Woodhouse.
...this is also my go-to sleeping audiobook...and the one I return to when I just want to listen to a good story.
I feel deeply for Rosemary in the book. I don't know what it would be like to go in blind, but for me with my knowledge, Rosemary becomes almost like a classic tragic hero, a MacBeth, or Hamlet, or one of those women saints who are only loved for their martyrdom. But unlike those characters Rosemary is, as she herself says, ordinary. She's another woman in NYC who us experimenting with feminism, atheism, and being a modern woman. She's simple and plain and ordinary in her wants and all the more beautiful for it.
I have a sort of obsession with second wave feminism and horror and the small acts of rebellion that women do
Rosemary almost always acquiesce to Guy's demands, but it is through a small act of rebellion when she only pretends to finish the drugged pudding, that ultimately allows her to grasp the ending.
I just love her. Movie-her is fine, but it's clear that Polankski is far more interested in the sinister plot (and Mia Farrow's nipples) than in beautiful ordinary Rosemary Woodhouse.
...this is also my go-to sleeping audiobook...and the one I return to when I just want to listen to a good story.