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Title: This Sweet Sickness by Patricia Highsmith ISBN: 0-393-32367-6 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth reading
Comment: This is an quite interesting story about a man's desperate love for a girl that is out of his reach. It also contains some psychological aspects which give an even more thrilling touch to the novel. Patricia Highsmith perfects the art of transporting the reader into a dangerous, double-edged world of crime and lies. It's absolutely worth reading.
Rating: 4
Summary: when too much love is BAD thing...
Comment: This Sweet Sickness is a short yet accomplished work by Patricia Highsmith which chronicles the life of a young man obsessed with a former (and now married) girlfriend. He is completely delusional in thinking their relationship lives on, and his mental state degrades rapidly with rather disturbing (and violent) consequences. As usual, Patricia Highsmith unveils the 'sickness' of her main character very slowly. This allows the reader to really judge matters from the main character's perspective, regardless of his/her mental state.
The only negative aspect with This Sweet Sickness is how the police force are viewed, in general, as incompetent in solving a murder (..I won't say who is killed, nor divulge whom the killer is). Other Highsmith novels portray the police as cold yet extremely capable. This mistreatment of the police force almost turned me off from This Sweet Sickness completely. However all is forgiven with the novel's ending, which is truly beyond belief (let's just say the main character's mental state is completely shattered). It is perhaps one of the most memorable endings to any novel I have read.
So This Sweet Sickness is a worthy read overall.
Rating: 4
Summary: excellent case study of madness love obsession
Comment: again, another wonderful patricia highsmith book, she is a genius at the understatement in writing. her books are slow to getinto, its true but once you are there you are there, right inside the characters minds and the twisty plots and the ever so slightly change of reality she proposes. an excellent little french movie of the same name, starring gerard depardu is a good follow up to the story. and read mr ripley the ultimate psycopath and ever so nice man.
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Title: A Dog's Ransom by Patricia Highsmith ISBN: 0393323366 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith ISBN: 0393321975 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith ISBN: 0393324559 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith ISBN: 0393322440 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Beautiful Shadow : A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson ISBN: 1582341982 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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