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Bad Seed.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 812.52
EAN: 9780822200888
Edition: # 847
ISBN: 0822200880
Label: Dramatists Play Service
Manufacturer: Dramatists Play Service
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 84
Publication Date: 1956-06
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
Studio: Dramatists Play Service
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Editorial Review:What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? This is the question at the center of William March's classic thriller. After its initial publication in 1954, the book went on to become a million-copy bestseller, a wildly successful Broadway show, and a Warner Brothers film. The spine-tingling tale of little Rhoda Penmark had a tremendous impact on the thriller genre and generated a whole perdurable crop of creepy kids. Today, The Bad Seed remains a masterpiece of suspense that's as chilling, intelligent, and timely as ever before.
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Rating:  - sugar, spice and everything nice??
'The Bad Seed' is certainly a great horror story, made even more remarkable since it was written in the early 1950s when the world was thought to be a kinder, gentler place. In it we have a young mother at the end of her tether in dealing with her adolescent daughter. Her daughter is not all peaches and cream. She is a cold, emotionless psychopath. She doesn't recognize good from bad. All she knows is that when she wants something ... SHE GETS IT. Poor mother eventually comes to grips as to ... Read More
Rating: - THE BAD SEED!!!!!
FOR ALL OF US "OLDER" PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO REMEMBER THE MOVIE, THIS IS A GREAT COMPANION TO THE MOVIE. OF COURSE LIKE ALL BOOKS AND MOVIES MADE FROM BOOKS YOU HAVE YOUR OWN MENTAL INTRERPATATION OF EACH. ALL IN ALL, GREAT BOOK WORTH READING, BUT A BETTER MOVIE.
Rating:  - Still a Good Read
I imagine "The Bad Seed" was a truly shocking story back in the fifties when it first came out and it remains a chilling little tale that is well written and quite believable. The sad thing is that you can pick up a newspaper today and read more shocking stories about real childhood psychopaths.
I thought the characters were well developed and the story moved well. I watched the movie (1950's version) last night for the first time and though the movie got all the attention and is what ... Read More
Rating: - rhoda is FABULOUS - - period.
i got this book at noon the other day and finished it by eight that evening - - a page turner, gripping, gothic, yet campy and with a sense of irony about that campiness that endeared the book to me.
eloquently written, his language is engaging yet elegant, revealing and graphic, yet dark and mysterious, like sinister housewife gossip and whispered rumours.
if you root for the anti-hero (and believe me this book has one HELL of a little anti-hero to offer), this is definitely the book for ... Read More
Rating: - The murderous preteen has unfortunately become a banal headline
As with many authors and artists William March's work was rejected and he died a broken man. Publishers told him that The Bad Seed lacked verisimilitude. The truth is there have always been sociopathic children among us, but today the headline is all too common. I was inspired to read this classic after reading Dr. Robert D. Hares Without Conscience: The disturbing world of the psychopaths among us. Even though The Bad Seed is a work of fiction March had some really good insights that Dr. Hare quoted. ... Read More
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