How long does it take to read Ripley's Game?
Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith takes about 5 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Tom Ripley series
Previous: Ripley Under Ground Next: The Boy Who Followed Ripley
About 5 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1974. 282 pages, about 77,550 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime—forgery, extortion, serial murder—Ripley still finds his appetite unquenched and longs to get back in the game. In Ripley's Game, first published in 1974, Patricia Highsmith's classic chameleon relishes the opportunity to simultaneously repay an insult and help a friend commit a crime—and escape the doldrums of his idyllic retirement. This third novel in Highsmith's series is one of her most psychologically nuanced—particularly memorable for its dark, absurd humor—and was hailed by critics for its ability to manipulate the tropes of the genre. With the creation of Ripley, one of literature's most seductive sociopaths, Highsmith anticipated the likes of Norman Bates and Hannibal Lecter years before their appearance.
Subjects: Fiction, Criminals, Criminals in fiction, Tom Ripley (Fictitious character), Serial murderers, Psychopaths
