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    <body><![CDATA[ Two and a half years ago I read The Mysterious Mr. Ripley, an omnibus containing the first three Tom Ripley novels by Patricia Highsmith. Ripley Under Water is the fifth and final book in the series coming just four years before Highsmith's death in 1995.<br/><br/>When Tom Ripley was first introd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5667749">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Possibly the best of Highsmith's Ripley novels, Ripley under Water is immensely enjoyable. This novel demonstrates her unique ability to draw out the tension and suspense in her stories to incredible levels. In this story, Ripley is finally up against someone as inexplicable and ruthless as himsel. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37160145">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Patricia Highsmith, as I have noted before, writes a intriguing set of novels using Tom Ripley as the antihero. Ripley Under the Water is a good example of her craft. Tom and his French wife Heloise, live quietly near a small French village. The only thing one might consider unusual about the house ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38000080">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  Late Highsmith, still at the top of her game. She cannily creates an air of nearly unbearable suspense by never allowing us to know any more than Ripley knows at any point, so Ripley's paranoia becomes our paranoia. Very effective.<br/>  Has there ever been a creepier protagonist in literature th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4921524">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A couple are hounding charming killer Tom Ripley at his home in France, dredging up unsavoury things from his past. Tom tries to stop them.<br/><br/>It sounds like it would be an exciting read, but what follows is one of the most ungripping thrillers I've come across. The story just plods along wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51233736">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I took this book on the plane with em and it was perfect for that.  Atmospheric yet entertaining.  While some of the brutality of the earlier works is missing.  It is interesting to see Rilpey trying to cope with an obsessed fan as it were.  It kin-of makes me wish for an arch nemesis as it were, so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52292175">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i'm pretty sad to not have any more ripley books to look forward to. sure, the last two entries in the series don't match the first three, but he's such a great character and his world is so weird. anyway, <em>ripley under water</em> is probably the most unusual entry in the series. it wisely abandons the at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34738996">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[just finished the Ripliad and the four stars are for all the books. how can you cheer so strongly  for an obsessive compulsive, repressed charlatan killer? by writing suspense as well as highsmith. evry phone call he gets makes you want to leave the room, every clue she lets you see him leave, and a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73381529">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been putting off reading the last of The Riplaid for awhile, but finally got around to it. I'll miss Ripley and Belle Ombre, miss the way Highsmith puts you unabashedly on the side of a monster. Miss the way that Ripley sails through life unperturbed by what he has to do to sustain it's comfort...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40622548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I am still fascinated by Ripley he is becoming a little too domesticated.  And the plot wore a little thin, depending mostly on elements from Ripley's criminal past.  Still I love Patricia Highsmith's crisp prose and matter of fact style.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tom Ripley.<br/><br/>Protagonist?<br/>Anti-hero?<br/>yes.<br/><br/>Sociopath?<br/>Criminal?<br/>yes.<br/><br/>Genius?<br/>Artist?<br/>yes.<br/><br/>Finished?<br/>No more?<br/>yes.<br/><br/>Really?<br/>Truly?<br/>yes.<br/><br/>Boo.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The final book in the series, this is one of the better ones.  I place it second best in the series.  Love the antihero!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as strong as most of the others, but still a good ride.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tom Ripley is perhaps my favorite psychopath. Even though he is frighteningly amoral, I still find myself somehow rooting for him as he murders his “best friend”, engages in art forgery (and commits murder to cover it up), plays with the lives of others (and murders some of them of course) simpl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30420690">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 15 13:47:19 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this one. It was much better than <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160472.The_Boy_Who_Followed_Ripley" title="The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith">The Boy who Followed Ripley</a>, and I think it stayed true to the Ripley character Highsmith has developed over the course of these novels. I only wish there were more!<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43160448">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38020499">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 18 01:51:07 -0800 2008</date_added>
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  <read_count>once was already too much :(</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Very disappointing final 5th volume of the Tom Ripley series.<br/>Don't waste your time with this one.<br/>I read it for completeness, but it was a waste of time.<br/>Also the North African location did not interest me at all. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38020499]]></url>
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    <review id="1052826">
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  <date_added>Sat May 05 16:51:16 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 16 18:58:12 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can never get the final image from this book out of my head. The couple.  .  . drowning the words &quot;Ripley&quot; rising out the water. sends chills down my spine. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1052826]]></url>
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    <review id="5808216">
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    <name><![CDATA[Steve-O]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Takes a little while to get going, but once it does, it's gripping, as per usual for Highsmith. Recommended beach / poolside reading.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5808216]]></url>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Ripley stories - very sharp. It's strange how you are on his side even though you know what he's done.]]></body>
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    <user id="882658">
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 07 06:47:27 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Have read many of this series.  I find this one particularly sinister. ]]></body>
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