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    <body><![CDATA[I remember buying this when Black Lizard first came out and the cover was laminated with an amazing cover by Nancy McGregor showing an insane Marilyn Monroe leering right at you in a darkened office. That cover pulled $3.95 out of my pocket in record time. Since it was my last $3.95 I had to go down...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53135919">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another twisty thriller from Jim Thompson with a marvelous downbeat ending.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Frank Dillon, il nous ressemble bien, au fond, à vous comme à moi. <br/><br/>Sauf qu'il est un peu plus fou, et que ça le tracasse. <br/><br/>Et que là où vous et moi, nous nous contentons d'oublier d'écrire à notre vieille grand-mère pour le Nouvel An, lui, il va plus loin dans le crime...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67468006">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In recent months, I seem to have stumbled into the project of reading in publication order the collected works the pulp noir greats.  Thus, since beginning to read noir in an orderly way, I've read the first two novels of Charles Williams, the first three of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep" title="The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler">Raymond Chandler</a>, the first six or seven ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19439919">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A masterpiece of cheap lives, small-town desperation, and absent morals. The last few pages, in which the protagonist has a mental breakdown, is written in alternating lines of conflicting consciousness: its among the most evocative, frightening, and beautiful prose I've read. The protagonist, a sle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27482450">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Its like watching Cops on television, you know what is going to happen, but you cannot stop looking, or in this case reading. Simple pleasure at its best.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked every Jim Thompson book I ever read. Pop. 1280 was probably the favorite]]></body>
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    <review id="58620005">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 02 23:23:53 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book reminded me a lot of charles williams' the hot spot. i like the characterization of the creep narrator very much but the story isn't much, and there isn't much to keep one's interest. i like the last couple of pages quite a lot though: the overlapping left me bemused and wondering about th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58620005">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wicked title with an equally twisted plot, love this book to death.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is really good]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Neil]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[The definition of Noir. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the typical Jim Thompson first-person crime story. In short the Anti-Hero takes a wrong turn and then a series of wrong turns -- talking it out to the audience. The story is not short of surprise or suspense. It's not Thompson's best work either. The prose is incredible, it is so tight that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36090641">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pulpy, seedy goodness. Great use of the first person narrative format, which is always fun, and really gets you inside the dark mind of Dillon, our morally questionable hero, and his take on dirty small-town Texas characters, which are a delightful part of this book. Can't wait to read more Jim Thom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53846716">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep" title="The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler">Raymond Chandler</a>, you'll probably like Jim Thompson's LA crime fiction. I've heard his best is actually The Killer Inside Me, but I haven't read it yet. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is really the only book from Jim Thompson that I wouldn't really recommend. Yes, the kind of incest thing is weird, but it was more than that that put me off. I suppose the main character wasn't bad enough or slick enough. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite noir novel. Like David Goodis, Thompson is too depressing for  many people, but I've always found his books riveting. This is his best work, up there with The Killer Inside Me and Pop. 1280.]]></body>
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