#134 in Thriller
The Boys from Brazil
- 280
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
- Film 1978 +1
- On screen
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Our view
“The Boys from Brazil” is a gripping Ira Levin thriller about a conspiracy with its roots in Nazi Germany. Some readers were hooked from start to finish and kept thinking about it afterwards; others found the middle slow, built on long conversations, and the final confrontation unsatisfying. At under three hundred pages, it is a compact novel for anyone who enjoys conspiracy thrillers.
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About the book
The Boys from Brazil is a 1976 thriller novel by American writer Ira Levin. It was made into a film of the same title that was released in 1978.
On screen
This book has 2 screen adaptations, all from 1978.
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 75 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 34% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 9 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 66 | 88% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Boys from Brazil?
It has 280 pages — shorter than 82% of the ranked books in Thriller.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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