The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith)

Member Name: hunkalovin

Product:	The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
Date:	18/08/00 (69 review reads)
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Advantages: Nice Cover, easily put down and picked up

Disadvantages: About a psychotic murderer

If you've seen the film, you'll love the book!!! I loved the film but expected to feel cheated by it once i'd read the book. How wrong coulkd one little man be?

Highsmith must be one of the best writers of our time. I am a slow reader at the best of times but i just couldn't put this book down (much to the taunts of my now ex-friends). Her characters are likeable and the story smooth. This all adds to the twisting plot and chilling insight into the mind of someonewho murders as a matter of course rather than for necessity or enjoyment.

Her writing is beautiful to read, with a sub text obvious enough to enjoy first time but which when read again provides more surprises (not least in an investigation of Ripley's sexuality).

What more is there to say? This book would interest and entertain a wide audience, but may loose its appeal to specialist readers, who prefer to read only a specisic genre.

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