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Rating:  -
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!
Rating:  -
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!
Rating: -
... 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. The plot is ridiculous; the characters are inconsistent and unconvincing, and the ending... what can I say?
[SPOILER ALERT]
Levin does that terrible thing that soap opera writers do when they can't figure out how to end a story: Everything (including the events of the first novel) turns out to be a dream. How rude! How pathetically rude. For an author, this is the literary equivalent of urinating on your readers. It completely violates the contract between author and reader.
So, Ira Levin, if you're reading this from the Great Beyond somewhere, "Shame on you."
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