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You know what? I rather enjoy the Nicole Kidman movie, I never realised it was based on a book, so now I get to see the root material and how the film compares.
The film is a comedy, whereas I've been told this is more sci-fi.
My edition of Stepford Wives has an introduction by Chuck Palahniuk, which gives a very interesting overview of the story and how it relates to us now, in this era, though it is pretty full of spoilers, so if you're going in with no idea of the story, I'd skip it if I were you and read it afterwards. In itself, the introduction is an interesting essay on the state of the current media, and is a rather eye opening piece of text.
Now I've finished reading it all I can say is how fantastic it is. How utterly amazing, thought provoking, suspenseful, scary and completely modern and relevant to today, despite first being published in 1972, that's 42 years ago.
I'm going to be honest here, I read it in one sitting. It's not a long book, and that's what appealed to me, but it's brilliant. I just had to keep reading it.
This is way scarier than the 2004 film. I may have to compare the two at some point. The ending to the film is so different to the book.
Read it.
