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Pros
Patricia highsmith paints a twisted picture and a noir feel that is quite compelling. Bronson pinchot does an amazing job narrating.
Guy haines meets charles bruno on a train. Bruno is obsessed with guy and threatens to turn him in if he doesn't. Both guy and bruno fall under the control of a mother.
The resolution has to come from guy’s own reckoning with what has happened and what he has done. Guy tells him that he is a successful architect, about his divorce and that his first wife cheated on him over and over again. He tells him he hates his f... Read More
Cons
There was very little drama, and hardly no * to speak of. Southern gothic bore.
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One needs their father murdered the other his wife and the lack of connection between the two seems to set the stage for the ea... Read More
The book was made into a movie by alfred hitchcock who however took some liberties with the plot
The sense of being trapped the overwhelming guilt and paranoia and the nightmarish psychosexual torment are so expertly realize... Read More
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Patricia novels are dark and usually end up being tragedies
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They are so disturbing that i need to stop reading them for a while until i settle down and have the nerve to keep reading
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The book was made into a movie by alfred hitchcock who however took some liberties with the plot
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Basically guy haines meets charles bruno on a train
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Bruno concocts the idea of him murdering haines’s estranged wife thus freeing haines to marry his current girlfriend anne without the messiness of a divorce and in return haines is to murder bruno’s father whom he despises
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Haines is repulsed at the idea and rejects it
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However shortly thereafter bruno carries out his portion of the plan murdering haines’s wife
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Bruno then harasses threatens and blackmails haines into murdering his father
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