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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: RGMike on November 14, 2007, 07:54:50 AM

Title: RIP Ira Levin
Post by: RGMike on November 14, 2007, 07:54:50 AM

"Rosemary's Baby". "Stepford Wives". "Boys From Brazil".

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/books/14levin.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Title: Re: RIP Ira Levin
Post by: mshray on November 14, 2007, 08:34:46 AM

Quote from: "RGMike"

"Rosemary's Baby". "Stepford Wives". "Boys From Brazil".

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/books/14levin.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

not to mention "A Kiss Before Dying", one of Stephen King's favorites.  In writing about it in one of his non-fiction essays, King said it was the perfect book to foil those who read the ending first, because Levin sticks a totally unforeseen plot twist right in the middle of the story.