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    <body><![CDATA[Thompson puts the pulp-crime hatchet away and writes a &quot;Peyton Place&quot; style soap opera about a rich gossip who crushes her neighbors in the safety of her sick bed. Everybody harbors plans to snuff her, but who carries it out? Is it the slutty big band singer, the kept gigolo handyman husba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37175658">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Though probably not Mr. Thompson's most entertaining novel, it's one of his most intriguing I've read to date. He uses multi-viewpoints to sketch in the different characters at a decrepit New Jersey beach resort. Each character gets to speak in a chapter. There's a murder mystery in the banal small ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76092267">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found a huge stack of Jim Thompson's crime noir novels at my favorite used bookstore and I grabbed a handful. In Thompson's world women are dangerous, everyone has a secret agenda, and somebody is going to die. I equate these to literary crack, after you get into to one of Jim Thompson's books it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47506499">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Remember that left turn toward crazy that Thompson took in &quot;Savage Night?&quot; Well, he puts a brick on the gas pedal and doesn't slow down till he hits the town square. And yet it is all so plausible...I cried for the abused, the misunderstood and the hopeless who live in the dark town of Tho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44696329">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Better than a whodunit.  It's a whozgunnadoit?  We all know someone will knock off the gossipy old lady.  Which of the multiple narrators will finally do the deed?  Nastily noire.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Small-town paranoia; the flames of hell transposed to the chills of a coastal New England town; a silent veneer of mutual guilt and complicity in immorality and desperation: the characters in The Kill-Off are the masterminds of their own downfall. Incest, drug abuse, family lies, betrayals, failed r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28825843">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am reading a collection of Thompson's more well known novels titled, HARDCORE.  Having only read THE KILLER INSIDE ME, I was still unaware of Thompson's overall style but prepared for the inevitable abhorrent violence and unlikable characters.  This novel is completely different, and the multiple ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38148166">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Jim Thompson because his books seem so artificial, if that makes sense. They are all like, &quot;HELLO YOU ARE READING A GRITTY, RAW, HARD-BOILED CRIME NOVEL THAT I, JIM THOMPSON, HAVE WRITTEN.&quot; Sometimes that's a bad thing, but he seems to get away with it.]]></body>
    
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