Nothing scares me like sociopaths, archetypal Others who can’t connect to human emotions — or humans — like the rest of us, but look like us. Tom Ripley is a great sociopath, perhaps one of the earliest drawn on the novel’s page. A risqué book in the ‘50s, in ‘08 it’s a lot of fun.
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Book: 7/52