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Ripley: where to start reading
Adapts Ripliad by Patricia Highsmith. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
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After Limited Series, in the books you are
at The Talented Mr. Ripley.
through the end of the first novel.
The eight-episode limited series adapts the whole of the first novel. Creator Steven Zaillian described the season-length format as letting him stay faithful to the tone and subtleties of Highsmith's book. Four more Ripley novels follow it in the series.
Start reading at The Talented Mr. Ripley (the first novel)
Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
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Limited Series draws on this book. Read the full story:
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
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What the show changed here
- ChangedThe whole series is shot in black-and-white; the novel is, of course, unillustrated prose set in colour-drenched Italy.
- ChangedA private investigator tracks Tom down on Mr. Greenleaf's behalf; in the book Herbert Greenleaf approaches Tom himself at a bar.
- ChangedMarge and Dickie are engaged here; in the novel they aren't even an established couple, which shifts the dynamic.
- InventedReeves Minot, a fixer borrowed from later Ripley novels, appears; he isn't in this first book at all.
- ChangedFreddie is reworked from the book's red-haired, heavyset man and starts probing Tom almost at once.
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The Netflix limited series adapts the first Ripley novel across its eight episodes, in a faithful, black-and-white retelling.
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