Nick: Shall I look for some gifs?Mish: No. No gifs.Nick: Why not?Mish: You'll just look for something shocking and bloody. I don't want to be grossed out by our review.Nick: Okay... you start, though. I need another drink.Mish: Isn't that your third?Nick: Are you counting my drinks, woman? Just star...
I did not like this book. Strange to have given it 4 stars then isn't it? The reason is simple it is a good book, a very good book with excellent writing, amazing characters and heart stopping tension. The problem for me was that I really didn't like spending all that time with the characters, espec...
What a creepy little book. Highsmith takes us into the head of Tom Ripley, and it is an unsettling ride. Tom is a sociopath (or is he?), but an anxious one. And inside his head, we are carried along as his crimes mount, one upon the other, and feel the tension as he skirts the edge of disaster and d...
This is the second time I have read this book. The first was in 2000, and was inspired by the 1999 film adaptation directed by Anthony Minghella. Sufficient time had elapsed for me to have forgotten most of the detail of both the book and the film. I think this resulted in me enjoying it even mor...
The story had plenty of suspense, but the writing style was so clinical it was hard to really get into it to any real degree. I don't think there was one character I liked, least of all the lead. The base idea is terrifying, but the execution of this book kept me from being able to like it more.
The Talented Mr. Ripley is not a book I would have picked up on my own for fear it would be too dark. However, I’ve been enjoying doing group reads a lot and this was the next book for the Constant Reader Group on Goodreads. The book tells the story of Ripley, a man sent to Europe to talk an acqua...
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