The Talented Mr. Ripley

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Summary: Exciting and thrilling
Review: The talented Mr. Ripley" is the most thrilling, exciting and suspensing book I`ve ever read. It is full of tensions, and you expect many times something completely different to happen. It's written from the sight of Tom Ripley and so you see his thoughts and his feelings, and that's very interesting.On one side Tom is a genius, on the other side a schizophrenic weird man. The way he arranges everything about the murders is unique. Muriel & Daniela from Aarau

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Summary: personal review about the novel "Tom Ripley"
Review: This book impressionates us because in the story of Tom Ripley you can feel the tension growing more and more.And suddenly you get aware of that the author must have thought a lot about that story and its development.Very interesting is, that the caracters are changing during the story and that the locations aren't always the same. So you often get new experiences and because of the very exactly descriptions of the different places and the caracters you can identify yourself with the whole story, you go with the persons very attentif and you are seizing until the last pages. But sometimes the many descriptions get you bored a bit...

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Summary: great characters,unbelievable plot
Review: I did not see the movie, so I had no idea what to expect from the book. I heard it was a good suspense book....so I picked it up. You can definetly tell that it was written a while back and with a British flare,but I have to say that the suspense parts were rather predictable. I loved the characters,even the one's you weren't SUPPOSED to like and I think that was the best part about the book. You walk away feeling sorry for Tom and being totally annoyed with Dickie when it should be the other way around. In that aspect the writing was great. The suspense could use a boost but all in all it was a pretty interesting book. If you like Agatha Christie and some of the other authors of that time, you'll enjoy this book.

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Summary: very stupid novel
Review: This is a very stupid book it shows us how to be a criminal, it is dangerous for society, because you can learn to cheat carabinieri, polizia and guardia finanzia. The cheater is the hero in this book , like in the right life . Highsmith knows very well the laws and the systems of the country, so the book is very clever written. it is an outstanding thriller which has deservedly become a classic the book is very funny more funny than Peach Weber ( a local Swiss comedian), cleverer than Sherlock Holmes, more evil than joker and penguin but more beautiful than Verona Feldbusch more intellligent than Einstein and more thrillering than Hitchcock

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Summary: It's a great book.
Review: This is an absolutely new story; there was no writer who wrote a comparable story. A lot of people have seen the movie with the same subject, but we propose them to read the book too. The book is better and more interesting than the movie. In Patricia Highsmith's book the characters of the persons are very well discript. P.H. invented a creature who's very talented and who could reach a lot in the real life. Sylvain and Marco

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Summary: Creepy Mr. Ripley
Review: I was not prepared for this book. I liked the wayMs. Highsmith developed her characters. Mr. Ripley was extremelycreepy. He was entirely too capable of assuming someone else's identity. I didn't know what to think... It's not a difficult book to read, although I did find time to put it down to do other things.

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Summary: Read it right before the movie
Review: The book was EXCELLENT and extremely well-written..The movie was a wonderful interpretation of the book, and it is now one of my favorites!

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Summary: Order of Books in the Ripley Series
Review: Since I wrote a review of The Boy Who Followed Ripley, a couple of people have contacted me asking about the order of the five Ripley books. I had the same problem myself when I was first started reading the series, so I figured it might be useful for me to put the information here. The order is: (1) The Talented Mr. Ripley; (2) Ripley Under Ground; (3) Ripley's Game; (4) The Boy Who Followed Ripley; and (5) Ripley Under Water. It is a wonderful series of books and I highly recommend that people buy all five and read straight through. You won't be disappointed. My experience also suggests that you won't be disappointed if you read Patricia Highsmith's other novels. I've read three others now, and would recommend in particular The Tremor of Forgery and The Cry of the Owl. The latter especially keeps you rivetted to the text from the first page to the last.

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Summary: Strangely Compelling
Review: Having now finished all five in the Ripley series I can only wonder at the art of a writer who, without flashy prose or laboured description, can maintain such a fabulously amoral character for five novels. The writing is not necessarily deep or thought provoking but it is consistently entertaining. Having read one, you have to read them all!

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Summary: Excellent reading.
Review: After 40 years, Patricia Highsmith's novel remains fresh and suspenseful. However, some of the minor characters fall a little flat, including Dickie Greenleaf. Tom's dislike of Freddie Miles struck me as slightly unconvincing and I have to agree with the reader from Virginia that Anthony Minghella's screenplay is a minor improvement on the story.