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The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

11 reviews

lynna_love's review

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

It was good, there where some things that didn’t play in its favor like it feels like a travel novel which would have been fantastic If I had been traveling while reading, which was not the case😭(and I don’t quite like travel novels). But anyways the most interesting thing about this novel is Tom Ripley and to what lenght he would go to live the live that he wanted, even if he had to kill. What disturb me was how easily he posed as the person he killed, it was just chilling, but very interesting to read. 

I just love how Patricia Highsmith wrote Tom. He is a complex character, he feels worthless being himself, but when he kills Dickie he finds an out and impersonates him so easily like he was waiting for that moment all his life. And  he is living the moment of his life being Dickie until he has to return to his original self which he loathes because returning to be the boring, uninteresting Tom Ripley is painful for him. He is just a brilliant character, and we could go on analyzing him for hours, that’s how intriguing he is.

But overall, it was a rather solid book with a brilliant main character, maybe to much movement for my liking, but pretty great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Homophobia

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, and Homophobia

stateofhailey's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Classism, Toxic friendship, Homophobia, and Misogyny

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Homophobia

Minor: Cancer and Ableism

poirot's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Alcohol

jay_hobday's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Murder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Grief, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Cancer, Mental illness, and Homophobia

elfcup's review

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia and Misogyny

jesshindes's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I've seen the film of The Talented Mr Ripley several times so reading the book was inevitably a bit of an exercise in comparison. There are plenty of differences between the two both plot and character-wise (Marge is very un-Gwyneth-like in the novel, for instance) but one thing that struck me was that Tom's sexuality is much more to the forefront in the novel. It's so clearly part of who he is, the way he sees other people, how his view of society and his place in it is formed. This is a good thing, I think, and another very good thing about the novel is just Highsmith's style. She's a pleasure to read. Tom's constant struggle with the contempt he feels for those around him is sad at points but it's mostly very entertaining. There are so many great lines and funny observations. She's also as great at suspense as you'd expect - even though I knew there were several more Ripley books in the series, I was stressed about the possibility of discovery throughout 😂 In summary a great read and I'll definitely look to consume more Ripley in future! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Misogyny

Moderate: Suicide

neali's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Murder, and Misogyny

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Toxic friendship

outsmartyourshelf's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Tom Ripley is perturbed to realise he is being followed one evening but fear not, it is merely the father of one of Tom's peripheral acquaintances, Richard 'Dickie' Greenleaf. Greenleaf Senior asks Tom if he can exert some influence on Dickie to return home from Italy, & Tom spots a chance to get away from his humdrum existence. On Greenleaf's dime, Tom makes his way to Mongibello where he finds Dickie and close friend, Marge on the beach. Everything starts off well & Tom is soon asked to move into Dickie's villa, but Tom most definitely does not like Marge but can't seem to shake her from Dickie's life & things eventually go horribly wrong. Tom decides that he could live Dickie's life better than Dickie ever could, so he kills him & assumes his identity, but can he stay ahead of the police?

I remember watching the film starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, & Gwyneth Paltrow years ago, so being able to picture the actors as the characters helped bring them to life. Tom seems to be a sociopath, his inner monologues & disregard for anyone he feels he cannot use is well-documented here. There are brief homophobic remarks & Tom seems ill at ease with his sexuality, but bearing in mind that Hollywood's leading gay men were still marrying women at this point, it seems likely that Tom would perhaps have trouble reconciling his sexuality. He seems almost asexual at times. 

I thought it was a great read and I have every intention of reading the rest of the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Homophobia and Misogyny

inkslate's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Murder

Moderate: Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Gore, and Terminal illness