In the tradition of Crime and Punishment, this book concentrates more on the psychological impact of guilt on an otherwise healthy mind than on the murders. Charles is a disturbing yet believable villain, while Guy makes an interesting anti-hero. Few of the other characters are developed beyond two ...
Katzengeschichten (Cat Stories) is not an anthology that Highsmith herself created but one that her publisher, Diogenes, compiled posthumously. I'm not usually a fan of such compilations as they always seem like a "cash-grab" to me but I can also see how this compilation could be a perfect gift for ...
‘Oh, the hell with the money,’ Ed said. He was thinking what a disgusting city New York really was. You had to rub elbows, you did rub elbows with creeps like this one every day of the week, every time you rode a bus or a subway. They looked like ordinary people but they were creeps. This is the p...
Way better than A Game for the Living. The interaction with the police still comes across as odd and not quite right. Who lets a horde of neighbors into a crime scene to trample evidence, even back then? Nickie was a right piece of nasty work. And all the internal musings got tedious. You ...
As much as I love Patricia Highsmith, this novel wasn´t good and I fail to see what this story was supposed to tell me. The murder mystery was boring, the characters felt oddly out of place and I wasn´t at all interested in the main characters discussions about religion and sin. The whole book is ...
"Theodore thought he was as happy as anyone logically could be in an age when atomic bombs and annihilation hung over everybody's head, though the world 'logically' troubled him in this context. Could one be logically happy?" I don't know, but I do know that this A Game for the Living certainly di...
This was a buddy read with BrokenTune and Lillelara. Lelia is murdered. And no one really seems to care. Except Ramon, but all he seems to want to do is confess whether he did it or not. And that seems to stem mostly from his religious views and mild brain damage from a heavy beating he received...
I think I enjoyed this one exactly for the same reasons everyone disliked it: the characters were so messed up it was nerve-wreaking to read. I've likely commented many times before how I love those books that engage me enough for me to get emotional over the characters, even if it is rage enough ...
So I have been meaning to read this book forever. I obviously know about "Strangers on a Train" the movie version directed by Hitchcock. However, I have never read the source material. It's definitely a gem of a good idea that just fails with how Highsmith portrays the characters. It doesn't help th...
I managed to slog through about 11% of this book. It's really not very interesting. Two dull young men meet on a train and eventually began to complain about their mutual problems. One has a spouse who sleeps around and is now pregnant with someone else's child, but not much interested in giving a d...
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