by Patricia Highsmith
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 ...
Robert Forester is depressed and the only thing that makes him feel better is to observe a young girl through her kitchen window at night. Robert stalking this woman is only the starting point of a novel, which in true Patricia Highsmith style is dark, twisted and deeply disturbing. As in other Hi...
"She had called him up to give him a piece of her mind, Robert supposed, and what surprised him more than anything was that she could be so voluble, so sure of herself, while addressing someone she considered a murderer. Weren’t people supposed to be afraid of murderers? If she really believed him a...
When a girl living in an isolated house spurns her fiancee for the peeping Tom that's been spying on her, things quickly circle the drain, lives destroyed in a maelstrom of hatred, jealousy, lies, and death...I read The Talented Mr. Ripley in the fairly recent past and have been on the lookout for m...
bookshelves: summer-2011, published-1962, mystery-thriller, noir Read from July 28 to August 03, 2011 ** spoiler alert ** (twit tw)Oooooooh - I lurve me some Highsmith and if the first episode tension keeps up throughout then a 5* it will be. Knuckle biting stuff......If this was Stripes, the fi...
(twit tw)Oooooooh - I lurve me some Highsmith and if the first episode tension keeps up throughout then a 5* it will be. Knuckle biting stuff......If this was Stripes, the film, then newly divorced, jobless, homeless, framed-up and shot-at Robert Forester would have joined the army and done the whol...
So here's a crime novel where the murderer is the least screwed up, most readily understood of all the main characters - the worrying folks with the more or less serious mental health problems are either victims or Ladies MacBeth.
It's hard for me to find a Highsmith I *don't* like. In her dark psychological thrillers, people act on their baser thoughts rather than ignoring them. The few innocent characters don't have the strength to avoid being pulled into the weird, claustrophobic orbit of the disturbed. You can describe al...
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