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It feels enormously wrong for me to say this novel didn't hold up to a re-read.
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This is a fantastic psychological study of an amoral youth. The dialogue was well written, the characters were drawn masterfully, the plot moved at a perfect pace.
I had high expectations for this book. I saw the movie many years ago, which I found entertaining. The book was of a similar vein, but I found that the plot to be slow-moving and Ripley to be a very lucky man to avoid getting caught for all of his dastardly deeds. I didn't realize that this book is the first in a series. I may try to pick up book 2 down the road, but I am in no hurry, unfortunately.
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Darkly comic and tense thriller. Tom Ripley is idling around New York and living off his wits, when he encounters a shipping magnate, Herbert Greenleaf, who asks Tom to go to Italy and persuade Herbert’s errant son, Dickie, to return to the US and join the family business. Tom has a taste for the high life, and soon finds himself envying Dickie’s life - to the extent that he begins to consider ways in which he can take it for himself…
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Patricia Highsmith's classic portrait of a psychopath is just as good today as it was when it was written. Ripley is a true psychopath - he can emulate the emotions he thinks people expect out of him, but it is exhausting. He has no empathy and his only true feelings regard the repercussions things such as murdering his only friend will have on his life. Whereas the movie version of Ripley is driven to misdeeds by passion, in the book he is cold, calculating, weighing the repercussions only to h
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