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Ripley Under Ground
- A Virago Modern Classic
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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Summary
The second novel in Highsmith's hugely influential, groundbreaking Ripley series.
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES
'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'The sequence of novels allows Highsmith to create a frightening sense of momentum' GUARDIAN
Tom Ripley is now the owner of a beautiful estate in France, a wealthy art collector and married to an heiress. The Buckmaster Gallery is staging an exhibition by the celebrated artist, Derwatt, but an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of course, and he wants to talk to Derwatt - but Derwatt, inconveniently, is dead.
Ripley needs the perfect solution to keep his role in the fraud a secret and his reputation clean, but not everyone's nerves are as steady as his. Especially when it comes to murder.
Ripley Under Ground is an ingenious novel of masks and identity, illusion and reality, and is followed by Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water.
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- I ain't givin' you no name
- 07-08-24
More of an amuse bouche than a main meal
The second Ripley book finds him some 5 years after the events of his debut, now rich, married and amusing himself with dabblings in the art world.
What starts as a con of fraud and impersonation spirals into familiar murderous territory. This is not a book filled with the lively glitz of the Greenleafs, instead it's populated by depressives and a network of people that support and assist Ripley with his dark dealings.
It's not as spectacular as the first book, but it's nice to drop in on Thomas Ripley.
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- Heisenberg
- 15-07-19
Hooked on Highsmith
Another excellent volume in the Ripley series. Quite a different novel to the first in the series, but again wonderfully enjoyable and very well narrated. I have already downloaded volume three "Ripley's game".
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- Emily W.
- 13-05-24
Great book and great narrator
Love this book, was very excited for it after listening to the first book in the series. The narrator is great too!
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- Shaun
- 23-06-18
Disappointing sequel...
There is nothing worse than not wanting to finish a book, but I was always hoping this would get better, unfortunately it never did.
unbelievable plot and unconvincing characters made this such a disappointment after what was such a fantastic first book in the series.
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- Paul g.
- 28-02-21
Plot full of holes
It is rumoured that Pat spent most of her waking hours drunk, to one degree or another . This book seems to confirm a muddled disjointed approach to plot and story line with plot holes so big you could drive a bus through them , some of it is brilliant , some of it terrible , a real disappointment. I have seen all the films , this is the first of the TR books I have read , the screen writers must have had to work very hard editing the 2 best known books made into movies to make sense of them .
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- Fiona Cole
- 12-12-22
Not as good as the first story
Good but not great. Enjoyable but not so as to want to repeat the pleasure
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let down from the first book
what a let down from the first book. the storyline doesn't really go anywhere, very dragged out. very disappointed that it had a different person reading
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- Marie
- 12-12-21
Not Patricia Highsmith’s Best
It could be because I had such high expectations, but I was rather disappointed with this book. I loved The Talented Mr Ripley, but this was not in the same league, either in the story or the narrator. It did not have a lot of tension and I could see where it was going more or less all the time. The narrator, whilst competent and very good at accents, did not evoke the character of Ripley as David Menkin did so brilliantly in The Talented Mr Ripley. I have enjoyed several other books on Audible by Patricia Highsmith. This one, whilst not bad, was the least enjoyable.
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-05-23
Good but a bit far fetched
I really enjoyed this book and finding out what happens to Thomas Ripley after the first book. It is entertaining but the storyline gets more and more far fetched as it goes along. The part in Salzburg is especially bizarre. It is still worth listening too though and I’m looking forward to the next book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 31-05-24
Much weaker than The Talented Mr Ripley
In the first book, you really get a peak inside the workings of Ripley’s strange brain. In the second the introspection is gone. It’s all action but not in a good way. Bizarre impersonations (again), crisscrossing across Europe, an absolutely bizarre sequence in Salzburg and two (three?) more deaths - it’s just too much
Also Tom has become very assured and confident - which detracts from his character imo
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