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This book features the king of unlikable main characters, Tom Ripley. He's the kind of person I hope I never meet up with. He had a terrible childhood from which he emerged without a normal human conscience. In other words, he's a sociopath (at the very least.)
At the beginning of the book he's a hapless con man without any personal direction, floating through life looking for opportunities. Suddenly an opportunity appears before him in the form of the Greenleaf family. A wealthy man, Herbert Gr ...more
At the beginning of the book he's a hapless con man without any personal direction, floating through life looking for opportunities. Suddenly an opportunity appears before him in the form of the Greenleaf family. A wealthy man, Herbert Gr ...more