2010 Reading #92: Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
Books 71-80.
Books 81-90.
91. Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 by Duane Schultz.
92. Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith. Since the events of the first book, Tom Ripley (called "Tome" by his French wife, Heloise, and their live-in housekeeper) has settled into a fairly comfortable life of domesticity, occasional fraud, and mundane courier intrigue. It's the fraud, in the form of a forgery operation built around a painter whom only the principals (including Ripley) know is dead, that precipitates a crisis here, although the particular way in which things fall apart suggests that it's really Tom's boredom that pushes him into that old familiar mix of murder and subterfuge. Initially the violence is about as unremarkable as tea, and only slightly more spontaneous, but things get very messy (and gruesome) in the end, while never quite managing to push Tom out of the reader's sympathy.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
Books 71-80.
Books 81-90.
91. Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 by Duane Schultz.
92. Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith. Since the events of the first book, Tom Ripley (called "Tome" by his French wife, Heloise, and their live-in housekeeper) has settled into a fairly comfortable life of domesticity, occasional fraud, and mundane courier intrigue. It's the fraud, in the form of a forgery operation built around a painter whom only the principals (including Ripley) know is dead, that precipitates a crisis here, although the particular way in which things fall apart suggests that it's really Tom's boredom that pushes him into that old familiar mix of murder and subterfuge. Initially the violence is about as unremarkable as tea, and only slightly more spontaneous, but things get very messy (and gruesome) in the end, while never quite managing to push Tom out of the reader's sympathy.