Every step flows perfectly logically from the previous, and then, suddenly, our hero is in deep water.

Which was good. On a recent episode with Meagan Abbott, Drew and Christopher discussed Deep Water. Published Don't they realize that you're a pillar of the community? He came up but very slowly. Once again, Highsmith encourages us to side with an outwardly respectable man who secretly harbours psychopathic tendencies. He looked for ropes, ladders and water wings but all in vain.

Once he took courage, the fear vanished. I went to Patricia Highsmith is a master of suspense.

And if someone does start snooping around, well, it's just darn annoying, really.

Adhering to the site’s name, I’ve made a practice of only listing books that I’d rate three stars or more ... that is, Good Reads. Which was good.

Yeah, I should have known: I didn't love GONE GIRL, therefore, I am not surprised that I didn't love DEEP WATER.I need to make a confession before I start my review. As with many of Highsmith's characters everyone has their faults (some more obvious than others), but we still root for the anti-hero whose mind we so eagerly inhabit through her excellent writing. Highsmith's characters unhurriedly attend to the minutiae of their lives. But the writer was determined to conquer his terror.

Confucius Say: "A relationship is the opportunity to do something you hate with someone you love." In this story, Douglas talks about his fear of water and how he finally overcomes it with strong will power, courage, hard work, and firm determination. Thanks to the Tournament of Books, I discovered the great podcast So Many Damned Books. July 17th 2003

The terror that he had experienced in the pool never left him. This is the best book about a fucked-up marriage I've read so far. 3.5 stars.An outwardly calm husband starts dropping hints that he's murdered one of his cheating wife's lovers. Twelve-year-old Julie supervises an important dive for her father’s scuba-diving business, but she soon learns that when you play against Mother Nature it is for keeps. How dare they accuse you?

Highsmith loves to turn a murder story on it's ear by getting you inside the mind of a man pushed to that limit and the next thing you know, you're sweating it out, worrying who saw you, wondering if any clues are going to give you away. Very often it seems that nothing is happening in her books; and yet, as the pages turn, the reader becomes more and more tense, wondering when precisely the axe will fall--for it certainly will fall. This being a Patricia Highsmith novel, we're mostly inside the head of the patient, rational - and quite possibly murderous - husband. Once he took courage, the fear vanished. And in accomplished Highsmith style, it becomes an increasingly unsettling place to be. Don't they realize that you're a pillar of the community? Slow-building dread in suburbia, this one made me think of George and Martha from Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The story of Vic and Melinda Van Allen, living in their small town with their daughter Trixie is one of how these tucked-away places can harbour unknown secrets, and how the people who inhabit them can lead double lives. She is supreme when it comes to creating psychopaths who pass unnoticed among us.Deep Water is another top-notch novel from Patricia Highsmith, up there with the best of the Ripleys for me. In this story, Douglas talks about his fear of water and how he finally overcomes it with strong will power, courage, hard work, and firm determination. This one didn’t quite hit three for me ... more of 2.75 ... but, I’ll round upward.I’ve been back and forth on this one so many times regarding whether I should post it or not. Author of the famous Tom Ripley series, beginning with the classic The Talented Mr. Ripley, Highsmith is an expert at crafting psychopaths, sociopaths and on-the-edge characters who often get away with their dastardly deeds.

So fearful is the fear of fear! Hopefully, someone will develop this into a film.It is subtle, and builds beautifully. Whenever he was in water the terror returned. Here that something is dancing, or not dancing.Try reading Highsmith and not start to feel like killing a man is the most obvious solution to a problem....as if he had it coming, and you are so smart that no one will even know you did it. First-rate Highsmith -- as good as the best of the Ripley novels. Deep Water Summary In English William 0. It was brought back into print in the US in 2003 by W. W. Norton & Company. He conquered it at last. It has the same kind of quivering bite that people found fascinating in Gone Girl, and to a lesser extent in the Girl on the Train only with more restraint and refinement than the books aforementioned.

This is the first time I have re-read a Patricia Highsmith. By the end Patricia Highsmith is a master of suspense. Deep Water is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith, first published in 1957 by Harper & Brothers.

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