The Boy Who Followed Ripley
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Average rating3.4
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Ratings5
Average rating3.4
Tom Ripley meets a young American runaway who has a dark secret that he is desperate to hide. Soon this unlikely pair is drawn into the seamy underworld of Berlin and a shocking kidnapping. In this masterful thriller, Highsmith shatters our perceptions of her most famous creation by letting us glimpse a more compassionate side of this amoral charmer.
"Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing."
—Frank Rich, New York Times Magazine
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Much like Ripley #2 and #3, The Boy Who Followed Ripley pales in comparison to the original. Unfortunately, it also pales in comparison to the second and third. While those were decent mystery stories in their own right, The Boy Who Followed Ripley is tedious at times, cartoonish in others, and the character of Tom feels stale and lacking dimension. Tom is unusually trusting, stupid, and both feeling and unfeeling in bizarre situations. The ending felt thoughtless, and I was frustrated the untapped potential that the plot had. I'll be finishing the fifth book since I've made it this far, but I don't feel too optimistic about it.
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5 primary booksRipley is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 1955 with contributions by Patricia Highsmith.
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