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2.0étoiles sur 5
Somersault, Avril 6 2004
!!Warning!!-expounding on spoilers in other reviews!!I hadn't realised that there was a sequel to Ira Levin's 60's masterpiece, so despite the bad reviews, I picked up a copy. Well, it's a short read. I started at 7 and ended at nine. Not to say it was enthralling, and not to say that you couldn't see a lot that was coming from about six miles away. Rosemary wakes up after 25-odd years in a coma, gets over that fact in about 5 minutes (feel free to dig out your copy of Stephen King's "Dead Zone" to refresh your memory about the diffculty that long-time coma victims have with physical therapy), meets up with bigger-than-Jesus Andy, who's group wants to get everone to light a candle at the same moment- Greenwich Mean Time on Midnight of the New Millenium. (Yes, I know, the new millenium started on Jan 1, 2001. send your letters to Ira.) It's very important to these people that everyone understands the time zone differences- god forbid that someone may <b>light the candle early</b>! You can see where this is going. In any case, there's a lot made about another anagram (that goes nowhere), the whereabouts of Rosemary's ex Guy (which goes nowhere), and Damie- er- Andy, having a bit more.... uh. <i>affection</i> for Rosemary than... well let's just say there isn't a Hallmark card for it. And it's reciprocated (which I wish went nowhere) Another reviewer gave away the ending, but personally, I think they were wrong. The last chapter isn't telling you that all that happened in the two books before was a dream, it's telling you that sometime even the prince of darkness keeps a promise. This book will have the curious effect that the color remake of "Psycho" had on me. You will immediately toss it aside and pick up the original. Too bad it makes his early works seem like a fluke.
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de Ira Levine
