The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, Peter Straub
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Book Reviews of The Stepford Wives
Book Review: The Stepford Influence
Summary: 4 Stars
With The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin perhaps defines one particular style of horror or suspense fiction. Taking a normal situation and turning it upside down, eerily so, Levin blazed a trail for authors like Stephen King or Bentley Little. Levin presents readers with the town of Stepford, a remote suburb away from the grind of big-town living. Idyllic, inviting and almost utopian, Levin begins to introduce oddities, imperfections that lead both the protagonist and the reader to conclude that certain things aren't what they seem. And of course, they're not.After reading The Stepford Wives, I was immediately surprised at how much influence the novel obviously had on some more contemporary horror and suspense authors - Andrew Neiderman's Amnesia and Neighborhood Watch as well as Bentley Little's The Association owe a lot Levin's Stepford.
Book Review: A scary story
Summary: 4 Stars
I found this book very interesting. The Stepford Wives was the first book that I have read written by Ira Levin. He has really impressed me. Joanna, her husband and her two children move from the city in a small town, where the wives are all beautiful, nice and addicted to housework. Joanna is a modern, independent woman and she wants to motivate the other women to set up a women association. The story sounds so normal and the unbelievable coincidences are well integrate and you don't notice it so fast. But when you to notice what's going on, you understand the Joanna's fears and terror and you sympathize with her. The end is the only thing, that I didn't enjoy. It hasn't convinced me and I think it's very unbelievable. But you have to know that I enjoy a happy ending very much!I just can recommend it and you will not be disappointed.
Book Review: a special story
Summary: 4 Stars
At first I thought that the Stepford Wives was a boring book. I didn't like the story because it was a bad and unreal story. But after the first 30 pages I liked to read it. It was interesting and I always asked myself how it will end! For every Monday we had to read a few pages and I always read the pages very quickly and I liked to read on. I think it`s a simple story but the story is really thrilling. My favourite person of this book is Joanna because she know that something is wrong in Stepford and she try to find it out with the help of Bobby, her friend. At the end she know that she has become a robot herself. But she can't do anything against this horrible idea of the Men's Association. I like the whole book but I prefer stories with happy endings. So it's not the perfect novel for me. That's the reason for the four stars.Book Review: a strange story
Summary: 4 Stars
I have read the book "The Stepford Wives" in English at school. We had to read a few pages every week. At the beginning of the book, I thought: ?What a nonsense!" When I didn't have to read more, I stopped reading. But I did continue and I must say now I changed my opinion. After the first ten or twenty pages the story became very thrilling. The story is simple. Joanna Eberhart, including her husband and her two children move from a big city to Stepford, a little rural town. The women there are very strange and they are only interested in housework. But Joanna finds a friend, called Bobby, who is not interested in housework either. But then, Bobby has a second honeymoon with her husband, and when she returns she has changed like the other housewives, too. What happened?
Book Review: a strange story
Summary: 4 Stars
I have read the book "The Stepford Wives" in English at school. We had to read a few pages every week. At the beginning of the book, I thought: ?What a nonsense!" When I didn't have to read more, I stopped reading. But I did continue and I must say now I changed my opinion. After the first ten or twenty pages the story became very thrilling. The story is simple. Joanna Eberhart, including her husband and her two children move from a big city to Stepford, a little rural town. The women there are very strange and they are only interested in housework. But Joanna finds a friend, called Bobby, who is not interested in housework either. But then, Bobby has a second honeymoon with her husband, and when she returns she has changed like the other housewives, too. What happened?