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Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith****

4 March 2017

Reading dates: 04 February – 02 March 2017 Although still not the best in the series, Ripley Under Water is better conceived than the previous book. Ripley was bound to…


The boy who followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith**

9 February 2017

…fiction than the actual primary source, which is a shame, as I still adore Ripley’s deviousness, self-preserving decision making and ruthlessness. The boy who followed Ripley is against those qualities….


The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith****

30 August 2015

Reading dates: 05 – 31 August 2015 As I was finishing the edit of my new book Make Me Yours, I came across the chapter that discusses Tom Ripley, so…


Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith ***

30 December 2016

Reading dates: 19—24 December 2016 I liked ‘Ripley’s Game’ less that any of the others so far but the reason is simple: Tom Ripley shares his protagonist role with someone…


Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith ****

29 December 2016

…with plenty of what makes Highsmith’s writing come alive: the details of the murders themselves, Ripley’s worry, his high life, the cities he travels too. It is a perfect holiday…


About the Author by John Colapinto ***

11 September 2023

…read like ventriloquism or puppeteering. Cal Cunningham is not Kinbote, Ripley, Herman Herman or Humbert Humbert. He is clumsy at best although there is once scene, of a boat trip,…


Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles ****

9 August 2024

…The narrator reminded me of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley (whom I love so much) and of Nabokov’s Hermann Karlovich in his delusion. Like all my favourite books, it finished with a…


The Switch by Joseph Finder *

2 April 2018

…not the pursuer (see the Ripley novels) but The Switch completely misses this opportunity. Tanner is in limbo land as to his place in the book and so the novel…


Kill your friends by John Niven***

30 January 2016

…John Self, a little Tom Ripley, a little Patrick Bateman. The work of the character is so internal, though, I am not sure if making it into a film would…


Worth Dying For by Lee Child ***

10 October 2022

…more to Ripley … There is no police and the baddies, terrible man beings as they are, have power only as a statement, it is not felt at all in…