I just wonder, why does she have to have big boobs? Usually really skinny women do not have them unless they get surgery. Kind of shallow. ( )

For me, this book can be summed up by a quote in The Moviegoer by Walker Percy: "But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere." So cool to read a work of fiction that talks about places I see around campus and can recognize. ( )

"Schreie in der Nacht" is the German version of the book "Sleeping with the Enemy." A film by the same name came out which starred Julia Roberts. This book was published after the movie became popular in Germany under the name "Der Feind in meinem Bett"; and that's Julia Roberts you see on its cover.
The German translation follows the English version of the book very closely. It's the story of a woman who, after being mentally and physically abused by an obsessive husband, decides to take her life back into her own hands by running away from him. She creates a new identy for herself and moves to a town in the Midwest.
The book has a lot of suspense, and an ingenious plot. I loved the story, but what made it really special
was the fact that the town she disappeared into is right next to my own, and I loved reading about a (fictional) person in my (real) town. ( )

THIS will teach me about reading popular books from an airport rack. ( )

After seeing the movie years ago, I stumbled on a copy of the book on a Sale Table and decided to see if the novel measured up. Despite knowing how the book was treated cinematically, I was still caught up in the story and have to disagree strongly with the previous review. Often the tale of a survivor of domestic abuse is best told from a very internalized perspective. The details in the movie seem overdramatic after reading the novel. Fear and terror are so much more believable in a first person narrative. The neighbor-suitor is much more complex than I remember him from the film and I thought Price did an excellent job at hinting at the thin line between love and obsession with every one of the male characters. Recommended as an early example of the fiction of domestic violence. ( )