Ira Levin, R.I.P.

I only read Rosemary's Baby (when I was 20, maybe?), but I loved it. A perfect blend of 'literary' and 'trashy' prose and plot, plot, plot.

have read almost all of his books, i think, and his thing of doing the big reveal in the middle and letting the repurcusions echo for the whole of the second half never got old.

actually, i can't think of a bad one. Accompanying films almost universally good too.

* A Kiss Before Dying (1953)
* Rosemary's Baby (1967)
* This Perfect Day (1970)
* The Stepford Wives (1972)
* The Boys from Brazil (1976)
* Sliver (1991)
* Son of Rosemary (1997) (not read this)

I don't know who he is... wait, was he in Yo La Tengo?

i've read a couple and agree with Gooblar in regard to the perfect mix of lit and trash. RIP indeed. :-(

Hail Satan, and R.I.P.

I read Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives, both awesome.

Never read it, but the movie Death Trap was pretty killer too.

I read only The Boys from Brazil as a teen, fun junk.

Fact: Ira Levin lived on the 15th floor of the building I grew up in. I lived on the 7th floor. Very nice guy, actually.

what floor did Ruth Gordon live on?

I've read A Kiss Before Dying. Great popular literature, some excellent plot conceits. Wrote it when he was only 23 apparently, the bastard.

Click on the "From Novel to Film" image: 53 stills from The Stepford Wives, pretty much the film in miniature. Click through all of them quickly--there's a great (and mystifying) punchline towards the end.

http://mcmolo.blogspot.ca/2015/02/from-novel-to-film-pt-11-stepford-wives.html

Really having fun watching boys from brazil rn

(Easy morbs we're taking a whiskey topup break)

I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that was new to me and loved it as much in the past five years as The Stepford Wives.

Joanna’s final thought where she gives in to the gaslighting that’s been trying to suffocate her the whole story haunts me like almost nothing else. It breaks my heart every time.

Joanna went forward, toward Bobbie standing by the sink with the knife in her hand, so real-looking – skin, eyes, hair, hands, rising-falling aproned bosom – that she couldn’t be a robot, she simply couldn’t be, and that was all there was to it.

You've got to see the original film (remake is terrible).

I'd like to watch Deathtrap again, could be fun if it hasn't curdled.

xp I have! It’s on YouTube and nowhere else that I’ve seen