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The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (Paperback)

by Patricia Highsmith (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Books; 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Ed edition (Nov 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 067974567X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679745679
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.2 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Can Ripley Be Successfully Emulated by Others?, 13 Nov 2004
By Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Paperback)
The Boy Who Followed Ripley will either be your favorite Ripley book or it will be a large disappointment.

If you have not read any Ripley books, I suggest that you start with The Talented Mr. Ripley instead.

Those who will be disappointed by this book will be people who wanted a book just like one of the first three in the series. Those who will be very pleased are those who want to think through the implications of Ripley's character and who he is becoming. I have graded the book as an average of the two likely reactions.

We see a new side of Ripley in this book. He takes a troubled American teen under his wing and mentors him in the way that a friendly uncle or much older brother might. In the process, Ripley reveals more of himself to the boy than to anyone else. Ripley also ends up musing and seeing his own marriage and history in a new light as he understands the boy's problems.

I'm sorry that I cannot go into the story in more detail. To do so would simply spoil the plot development for you.

If you like character development with long stretches of little plot development, this book will be a lot of fun. If you crave the constant action of The Talented Mr. Ripley, this book will drag slowly in long sections for you.

Unless you are ambivalent about the Tom Ripley character, I do suggest that you read the book . . . even if it won't be your favorite.

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3.0 out of 5 stars the man without conscience, 17 April 2001
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This review is from: The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Paperback)
As good as 'Ripley Under Ground', and better than 'Ripley's Game'. Nowhere near as good as Highsmith's real classics - 'Strangers on a Train', 'Carol', or 'The Cry of the Owl', all of which are required reading. However, this is still an interesting read for fans of Thomas Ripley, and reawakens some themes from the original 'Talented Mr . . .' It's the icy coldness of Highsmith's 1950s prose that intrigues me, but this novel appeals in a different way, as we see Ripley thaw and unfreeze as 'the boy's' hero-worship of him hits home. Tom begins to relive his attraction to and his own obsessive response to the murder of Dickie Greenleaf. . . Hooray to Vintage for reprinting Highsmith's back catalogue - and hopefully we won't have to wait too long for 'Ripley Under Water'.
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5.0 out of 5 stars very dark, very subtle, 8 Feb 2002
This review is from: The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Paperback)
The Ripley books have become a minor compulsion for me (WHEN will they re-print Ripley Under Water?). Highsmith's prose is clipped neatly as ever and although there is less physical action in this book, there is a lot more going on psychologically. This is not to the work's detriment - Highsmith's style is better suited to subtle proddings of psyches than it is to 'crash!kerpow!' comic book storylines.

I think that the darker undertones of the boy's relationship with Tom are set off starkly agaisnt the ordinariness of every day life that goes on around them. The precise nature of their mutual attraction is simply never set out starkly ...

I think that Highsmith may have used this book to add yet more depth and character to her anti-hero - strangely though the more she tells us about him, the more enigmatic he becomes.

A very subtle, excellent work.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A surprising and haunting book
The five Ripley books are comparable to Updike's "Rabbit" novels: whilst Updike charted the life of an American everyman, Highsmith showed the development of an entirely amoral... Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2006 by Chandler

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the others
Having read all the Ripley books, and Strangers on a Train, I would say this is the least interesting and slowest paced of them all. Read more
Published on 19 Nov 2004 by N. Stafford

4.0 out of 5 stars It's a shame that there are only 5 Ripley novels
Ripley is a highly compelling character, he is like Hannibal Lectar minus the eating people and glib look at me I'm so super intelligent pretentious comments... Read more
Published on 10 Aug 2004

1.0 out of 5 stars Very poor. This book never catches alight.
I had read the first three Highsmith novels featuring Tom Ripley and enjoyed every single page so I was very much looking forward to reading "The Boy Who Followed... Read more
Published on 3 May 2001 by A. Phillips

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