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Ripley Reeks

Deze serie volgt het leven van een charismatische maar psychopathische oplichter die zijn leven opbouwt op leugens en identiteitsdiefstal. We zijn getuige van zijn gevaarlijke spel met het lot en zijn pogingen om aan de gerechtigheid te ontsnappen terwijl hij zich beweegt in de wereld van de rijken en gewetenlozen. De spanning neemt toe bij elke stap die hij zet, waardoor hij dieper in een morele afgrond wordt gedreven. Het is een boeiende verkenning van duistere psychologie en een spiegel van maatschappelijke illusies.

Ripley Under Water
The Boy who Followed Ripley
Ripley's Game
Ripley Under Ground
The Talented Mr. Ripley
De Standaard thriller - 1: Ripley, een man van talent

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  1. De Standaard thriller - 1: Ripley, een man van talent

    • 283bladzijden
    • 10 uur lezen

    Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal but grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante. A dark reworking of Henry James's The Ambassadors , The Talented Mr. Ripley —is up to his tricks in a 90s film and also Rene Clement's 60s film, "Purple Noon."

    De Standaard thriller - 1: Ripley, een man van talent1
    3,9

  2. The Talented Mr. Ripley

    • 254bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen

    Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal but grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante. A dark reworking of Henry James's The Ambassadors, The Talented Mr. Ripley is an unforgettable introduction to this debonair confidence man, whose talent for self-invention and calculated murder is chronicled in four subsequent novels.

    The Talented Mr. Ripley1
    3,6

  3. Ripley Under Ground

    The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. 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 Ground2
    3,8

  4. Ripley's Game

    • 256bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen

    O terceiro romance da série é um dos mais matizados em termos psicológicos - particularmente memorável pelo seu humor negro -, tendo sido aclamado pela crítica pela sua capacidade de manipular as regras do género.

    Ripley's Game3
    3,9

  5. The Boy who Followed Ripley

    • 335bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen

    Fearing that he was directly responsible for the death of his father, an American multimillionaire food magnate, sixteen-year-old Frank Pierson learns of a plot to kidnap him and enlists the aid of Tom Ripley, an American expatriate in Paris

    The Boy who Followed Ripley4
    3,6

  6. Ripley Under Water

    Remember Dickie Greenleaf? Tom Ripley killed him. The only thing is he keeps ringing Tom up. Enough to make even a cool cucumber like Ripley uneasy. This book immerses the reader in Tom's world at Belle Ombre with the lovely Heloise and the very shadowy world of art forgery and murder.

    Ripley Under Water5
    3,8

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