The Stepford Wives
3 journalers for this copy...
A genuinely creepy story. Well told, highly believable. The movie version was also well-done but reading the story is more satisfying.
Mailed to Inkognitoh on 11/18/02
Journal Entry 3 by inkognitoh from Port Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Monday, December 30, 2002
The Stepford Wives showed up on my doorstep just before Christmas, I do hope this is not a portent for the New Year heh heh. I feel quite silly now I realise it was written by the author of Rosemary's Baby (one of my alltime favourites). How could I have not known this? Sigh, I guess a girl can't really know everything heh. Thank again mammajamma for broadening my horizons and expanding my to be read pile.
Journal Entry 4 by inkognitoh from Port Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, February 20, 2003
I adore Ira Levin and his morbid fascination with the darker aspects of suburbia. This story was wonderfully told and differred from the movie and it's always refreshing to read the story the way it's meant to be told. For some reason Ira writes from the woman's perspective beautifully and I'd encourage you to read Rosemary's Baby if you enjoyed this book and hadn't done so already.
This book took a short break with a work colleague who hadn't read it and expressed an interested. She commented that she was 'disappointed with the ending' but liked the story overall. It's journey will continue now on to Edinburgh to a friend I used to work with who mentioned that she'd never read the book when I referred to her office as 'The Stepford Office'. I've explained that she's to register journal and release the book but we'll see if she carries through with it.
This book took a short break with a work colleague who hadn't read it and expressed an interested. She commented that she was 'disappointed with the ending' but liked the story overall. It's journey will continue now on to Edinburgh to a friend I used to work with who mentioned that she'd never read the book when I referred to her office as 'The Stepford Office'. I've explained that she's to register journal and release the book but we'll see if she carries through with it.
I don't know what to say really. I won't rave about it because I rarely rave about anything, but I did like it, and it made me want to rebel a little so I have cut off all of my hair.
And to you inkognitoh (don't think I don't know who you are), you doubted whether i would follow through. I am disturbed by your lack of faith.
I disagree with the writing from a woman's perspective thing, although it depends on what kind of woman you are I suppose. My office is the stepford office, by the way, as many peoples are, and I try to buck the system in a small way everyday by arguing with my boss and demanding more money and privileges.
But enough about me, back to the book. The suspense was well done, and it made me want to keep reading, but I did feel the end was a bit of an anticlimax. I wanted to know what happened. Too much was left to my less than fertile imagination.
It did make me think though, all these people who live lives like that, do they know and have they just accepted it, or do they just not think at all?
I love conspiracy theories, and sometimes i used to think that the contraceptive pill was designed by men to keep women tired and lethargic. My theory has yet to be disproved, and I suppose somewhere in my mind I think that all men want is a stepford wife. Sad but true.
It is a good book to read if you need an excuse to hate men any more than you already do.
And to you inkognitoh (don't think I don't know who you are), you doubted whether i would follow through. I am disturbed by your lack of faith.
I disagree with the writing from a woman's perspective thing, although it depends on what kind of woman you are I suppose. My office is the stepford office, by the way, as many peoples are, and I try to buck the system in a small way everyday by arguing with my boss and demanding more money and privileges.
But enough about me, back to the book. The suspense was well done, and it made me want to keep reading, but I did feel the end was a bit of an anticlimax. I wanted to know what happened. Too much was left to my less than fertile imagination.
It did make me think though, all these people who live lives like that, do they know and have they just accepted it, or do they just not think at all?
I love conspiracy theories, and sometimes i used to think that the contraceptive pill was designed by men to keep women tired and lethargic. My theory has yet to be disproved, and I suppose somewhere in my mind I think that all men want is a stepford wife. Sad but true.
It is a good book to read if you need an excuse to hate men any more than you already do.
