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The Boys from Brazil
The Boys from Brazil | Ira Levin
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The classic thriller of Dr. Josef Mengeles nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project. Barry Koehler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the scheme and informs famed Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann, but before he can relay the evidence, Koehler is killed. Thus Ira Levin opens one of the strangest and most masterful novels of his career. Why has Mengele marked a number of harmless aging men for murder? What is the hidden link that binds them? What interest can they possibly hold for their killers: six former SS men dispatched from South America by the most wanted Nazi still alive, the notorious Angel of Death? One man alone must answer these questions and stop the killingsLiebermann, himself aging and thought by some to be losing his grip on reality. At the heart of The Boys from Brazil lies a frightening contemporary nightmare, chilling and all too possible.
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GidgetsTreasures75
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10-15-21: My 101st finished book of 2021! Holy crap-this book was good! Ira Levin, author of Rosemary‘s Baby, delivers a chilling book about the possibility of a second coming of Hitler through the use of children! I can‘t wait to find this movie. Riveting from start to finish. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👍🏼📖#️⃣1️⃣0️⃣1️⃣

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GidgetsTreasures75
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10-12-21: My new TBR pile! The tagged book is the cut off one at the top. 📚🎉💖

BittersweetBooks Great stack! 👍 2y
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bookandbedandtea
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Here Levin has given us another far-fetched plot he makes feel plausible. From hiding in Brazil the vile Dr Mengele has a plan to ensure the rise of a new Aryan faction. He sends a team of 6 killers thru-out the world to murder 94 ordinary 65 year old men. It takes our hero, and the reader, half the book to find out why these men were targeted then the race is on to foil the plot. A little dated but well done. The last chapter is chilling.

JoScho That mug! 😍 4y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 4y
bookandbedandtea @JoScho I love it! 🐝 Got it from zulily several months ago. 4y
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bookandbedandtea
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It's my last week of work- from- home 😭 so I took advantage of a few minutes of backyard reading 😊

Cathythoughts I have this on kindle ... I loved his other books. Look forward to your thoughts 4y
bookandbedandtea @Cathythoughts This is only my 2nd book by him (the other is Stepford Wives) and I loved them both. Both so impossibly plausible and ending on disturbing notes. I'll read more by him. 4y
Cathythoughts My favorite so far is 4y
bookandbedandtea @Cathythoughts I don't have that one but I'll put if on the list. I think he's going to end up being one of my favorite authors! 4y
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bookandbedandtea
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A quiet house, my second cuppa (mug purchased last weekend in Palm Springs 🧡), a new arrival for my TBR.... ah Saturday morning, I love you.

HeathHof Pretty pic! Love the Plants💚 5y
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Cinfhen
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Thank you so much to my wonderful friend @BarbaraBB who gifted this book to me. Written in 1972, in a time before cell phones, personal computers and other modern means of communication a rather old fashioned and sinister thriller. In similar bizarro vein of Stepford Wives, Levin imagines a plot to reinstate the Third Reich to world dominance. I quite enjoyed this #GenreBusting read. I‘d like to see the film- bet it‘s super kitschy!!!!

TrishB Not read the book - think I‘ve sen the film 😁 5y
vivastory I really enjoyed this one, especially as you mentioned the pre-digital investigative methods involved 5y
Blaire Interesting. I really liked stepford wives (way more than I expected). #stacked 5y
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Cinfhen It‘s a really quick read and a bit of a page turner @Blaire @TrishB it felt “dated”, right @vivastory ??! 5y
LeeRHarry I enjoyed this one too from memory, it‘s been a while 😊 5y
BarbaraBB I‘m with @LeeRHarry , I read it so long ago that it didn‘t feel outdated 😀. Glad you liked it! For more #genrebusting, move on to 5y
Cinfhen I think I will for #booked2019 @BarbaraBB thanks again😘😘😘this was a fun read 5y
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Cinfhen
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Thanks to @howjessreads and @SealedWithInk for the #FriYaYIntro tag❣️❣️❣️ 1. I‘ve been meaning to organize my summer clothes & winter clothes ~ it‘s finally getting cold 🥶2. Chanukah parties 🕎3. Anything with peppermint (why no candy cane emoji?) 4. Tagged book 5. Taking the lead from @SealedWithInk and tagging my 3 newest followers @Jennn56 @rgg @karenlovesbooks1

Reviewsbylola Genevieve was so thrilled that we got invited to a neighborhood Hanukkah party tonight. She and Flo even got the chance to both light candles on one of the menorahs! 5y
Cinfhen That‘s so fun!!! Did they serve doughnuts & latkes???? @Reviewsbylola 5y
Reviewsbylola They sure did! The latkes were fantastic. 5y
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Cinfhen
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Thank you to my dear friend @BarbaraBB who was so sweet to send me a book I wanted to read but was out of print!!! I‘m so grateful for all the fabulous friends I‘ve made on Litsy 🙏🏻🧡 #HappyFriendsGiving #MuchLove

Velvetfur Oh wow, that's so cool! 5y
Cathythoughts Nice one 👍🏻I loved Stepford Wives (edited) 5y
erzascarletbookgasm I have not read this. 5y
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Kalalalatja Wonderful! 💕 5y
TrishB Cool 👍🏻 5y
BarbaraBB That one has arrived pretty fast. I hope you‘ll like it, it is super scary! 😘 5y
Cinfhen Really?? Super scary?? @BarbaraBB 😬will it work for any of #pop19 categories??? 5y
BarbaraBB @Cinfhen I think it works for Based on a True Story 5y
Cinfhen I‘ll go through the list xx @barbarabb 5y
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Caroline2
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Well chuffed with these beauties! 😍 I loved Rosemary‘s Baby & Stepford Wives so I cant wait to read The boys from Brazil!! 👏🏻

MaleficentBookDragon I am jealous. He is one of my favorite authors and I 💚💜💙 Rosemary's Baby. 6y
Caroline2 @MaleficentBookDragon it‘s such a good book isn‘t it! ? I ordered them from eBay, (c8 for all 3! ?? 6y
Betty Also try (edited) 6y
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AmyG He is wonderful. I am a huge Rosemary‘s Baby fan, too. 6y
RadicalReader @Caroline2 I too enjoyed Rosemary‘s Baby the movie is also marvelous as well if you haven‘t seen it I highly recommend it Library could have it or possibly inter library loan the gem for you. Never read the stepford wives yet but has an interesting title always found creepy books to be good and creepy. 6y
GripLitGrl Awesome books👍 6y
Caroline2 @Betty oh thanks for the suggestion...stacked!! 😆 6y
Caroline2 @AmyG me too!! 😃 6y
Caroline2 @RadicalReader oh yeah I love the film! I watched it both times I was pregnant!! 🤰 just to freak out my husband really!! 😆 Stepford is a great little book, v creepy and weird in a totally different way but it‘s stuck with me! I‘d highly recommend it! 👍🏻 6y
BarbaraBB The Boys from Brazil is in its own way just as scary as Rosemary‘s Baby. I loved it! 6y
RadicalReader @Caroline2 I can imagine how creepy and fun experience that would be to be able to creep someone out while you‘re pregnant and watching a creepy thriller horror movie about a pregnant woman 6y
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Wilkie
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Imagine finding out your son is a clone of Hitler....#Theboyismine #natureornurture #heatofjuly

BarbaraBB This was such a scary book, so real, I‘ll never forget it! 6y
vivastory I really loved this one 6y
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erzascarletbookgasm
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I‘ve only read Rosemary‘s Baby and watched The Stepford Wives‘ adaptation. Have not read this, a story about a Nazi-hunter's pursuit of Dr Josef Mengele (the German SS officer and physician who earned the epithet "Angel of Death" from his gruesome medical experiments in Auschwitz). Seems like a gripping read and watch.
#aprella #brazil

Cinfhen I‘m all over this!!! Thanks for posting!!!! 6y
Reviewsbylola I‘ve never heard of this. I will have to check it out!! 6y
emilyhaldi Looks interesting! I haven‘t heard of this one either. 6y
Mdargusch I had forgotten all about this story. I think it sounds fascinating and I‘m stacking! Thanks for jogging my memory! 6y
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Libby1
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My other 4 selections from my 5 for Q9 charity shop!

Delighted.
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Delighted.
Delighted.

Libby1 I know, right, @tpixie ? 😍 7y
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I have gotten really burned out by WWII/ Nazi novels lately, so I almost didn't read this. I am truly glad I did, because this was I interesting and fast paced and a little scary.

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vivastory
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A bizarre and elaborate plot to restore the Third Reich is hatched by Josef Mengele & other Nazi war criminals. Famed Nazi hunter, Yakov Liebermann, begins investigating their plan. Set in the 70s, the time consuming research, transportation challenges & limited communications sets this apart from a contemporary thriller; however it is the gradual case building & the accompanying frustrations & satisfactions that makes this a great read.

zsuzsanna_reads The movie is good too. 7y
vivastory @zsuzsanna_reads There's really a movie? You just made my day! 7y
zsuzsanna_reads It's fairly old. My husband knew it and bought the DVD ages ago. http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0077269/ 7y
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zsuzsanna_reads It has a great cast and a weird plot (as you know) 7y
vivastory @zsuzsanna_reads Just requested from the library. Thanks! 7y
ValerieAndBooks Now that I finished The Stepford Wives I want to read Ira Levin's other books. I did read my parents ' copy of Rosemary's Baby when I was about 8 and still remember some of it 😱. I think that one would wait until Halloween time for a re-read. 7y
vivastory @ValerieAndBooks This was the first Levin I've ever read. I will definitely be reading more, "Kiss Before Dying" & "Rosemary's Baby" for sure 7y
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GidgetsTreasures75
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10-1-16: Found an old copy of this at a used bookstore inside the Winter Park, Florida library!!

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