Author Topic: RIP Ira Levin  (Read 1507 times)

RGMike

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RIP Ira Levin
« 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
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Re: RIP Ira Levin
« Reply #1 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.
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