Saturday, June 23, 2007

The talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith


I first read this book several years ago and re-read it last week. I like the whole Ripley series (there are five in all). They are all enjoyable reads because Tom Ripley is a brilliant, fascinating, and repulsive character all at the same time. The movie starring Matt Damon captured Ripley and the story quite well, but I vowed never to watch it again because the murder scenes were gruesome. But I will re-read the books.

1 comment:

Ruth said...

Interesting - I never knew there was a book series on this! I do agree that the movie with Matt Damon was really gruesome though =(