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If there is a character who has more self-loathing than Tom Ripley, I've yet to come across him or her. And what is it about the Mediterranean that inspires the most disturbing stories?
I knew this story from the movie, but I wanted to read it before I read any of the other Ripley volumes.
"They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom as a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood ...more
I knew this story from the movie, but I wanted to read it before I read any of the other Ripley volumes.
"They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom as a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood ...more
This was a book I'd have never picked up on my own, so thanks to Constant Reader for forcing my out of my beaten path. I enjoyed it. It was an easy read, altho occasionally I got lost in the twists and turns of plot. (One of the reasons I don't generally read mysteries. I find them mystifying.) Competently, if not gracefully, written. Highsmith's strength, as others have noted, was to make us root for a sleazeball.
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Loved every word of it. Can't wait to read the other Ripley novels.
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Mar 28, 2010
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This is my first Ripley book. I'll be sure to read another works of Patricia Highsmith. This might be the best narrative of a criminal's mind premeditating his murders.
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Suavely scary, this book draws the reader into Ripley's rapid downhill slide. One event leads inexorably to the next, until Ripley is so far beyond the pale that there's no way out for him. A wonderfully nuanced read for those who enjoy a little fright before bedtime.
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