tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2387430046438799729.post7491246615319769196..comments2023-10-17T02:51:23.442-07:00Comments on TAGIMPORT: Jim Thompson - Bad Boy - Click Headline for link to 50 Crime Writers you should readMrGoodson2http://www.blogger.com/profile/02329640961760572269noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2387430046438799729.post-7590011028444765892011-02-10T17:19:02.728-08:002011-02-10T17:19:02.728-08:00Ellis, you are the Bad Boy.Love the writing. Sound...Ellis, you <i>are</i> the Bad Boy.<br><br>Love the writing. Sounds great. You are the master connoisseur of the hard-boiled genre. Have to check this out.Davis Chinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168954208679712542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2387430046438799729.post-38117314216335853272011-02-10T19:43:45.484-08:002011-02-10T19:43:45.484-08:00The headline link is the place I got my first inkl...The headline link is the place I got my first inkling I wanted to read Thompson. The reason to read him is that other writers envy him. He's a favorite of Stephen King and Harlan Ellison and Stanley Kubrick...etc.<br><br>Just read the KILL OFF. 14, 20 page chapters. Each chapter the first person viewpoint of a different character in a small NY coastal town.<br>Crazy display of characterization ability that goes way beyond being gimmicky.<br>Check it out Marty. That link includes your favorite guy, Walter Mosely.MrGoodson2http://www.blogger.com/profile/02329640961760572269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2387430046438799729.post-58996077480613858942011-02-10T19:43:45.483-08:002011-02-10T19:43:45.483-08:00m Thompson 1906-1977There was no more brutal and b...m Thompson 1906-1977<br>There was no more brutal and brilliant exponent of old-style pulp than the “Dime Store Dostoevsky” – Jim Thompson. Thompson churned out more than 30 novels in the course of his drunken, borderline criminal life.<br><br>Pop. 1280 and The Killer Inside Me are both narrated by murderously unhinged small-town lawmen, who mask their moral vacuity with goofy homespun wisdom. The Grifters shows the noose tightening nastily on small-time cons. The Getaway follows a viperous Bonnie-and- Clyde-style pair of robbers on the run, pitching them finally into a chilling hell of their own making.<br><br>Thompson’s novels are set, largely, in a world where there are no good guys. Dark as hell, his books are all the darker for being funny. SL<br><br>Read: The Getaway (1959)MrGoodson2http://www.blogger.com/profile/02329640961760572269noreply@blogger.com