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    <body><![CDATA[Jim Thompson was a great writer by most standards and an iffy one at best by a couple others (lesser considerations, these, but impossible to ignore). While I don't think that P. K. Dick's writing is as bad as commentators like Jonathan Lethem have suggested, there may be some grounds for comparing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41514700">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More than just a running from the law and the evil criminals, too type-book, but a surreal analogy of how much crap a married couple can endure. And speaking of crap, the capper is when they're reduced to hiding out under a ton of horse manure for hours. Yeah, sometimes marriage feels a lot like tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30743438">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A journey through the twists and turns of a bank heist gone wrong and a relationship that might go wrong too.  This novel starts off as almost a standard crime drama but then takes a turn into the noir side.  The relationship between Doc and Carol McCoy forces the reader to examine the relationship ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45705373">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[3.4 stars for sure. i was confused by the ending, the last 15 pages in el rey, as if this part were written before the rest of the book and made to fit to jibe with the rest. it was a disappointing climax, anti-climatic. however, up until then it was a face paced bare knuckle brawl of a crim novel a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61751753">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <review id="19521361">
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    <body><![CDATA[A desperate-criminals-on-the-run novel, with Doc McCoy and his wife Carol being particularly violent although strangely likeable bank robbers.  As is so often the case with criminal masterminds, Doc’s carefully thought-out and brilliantly planned getaway becomes a series of mistakes, bungles, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19521361">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the better Jim Thompson noirs I've read. It's a twisty chase novel with the expected double-crosses, close calls, and violent clashes. Then toward the end, the story veers into something else but in an intriguing way. Doc McCoy, the bank robber, is a nice guy psychopath. I've read and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75659730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Given he falls into genres of which I read a lot, I'm gobsmacked to have discovered Jim Thompson only recently. Why is reading so motivated by fashion? If there is something that should be above fashion, or outside it, why would this not be it?<br/><br/>Of course, it could just be a case of trying...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72631535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More like 3.5 stars.  A very solid, entertaining crime novel that was clearly pushing the envelope in 1958. The Getaway is a very quick read and is a good place to start if you're new to Thompson. His work has held up well partly b/c he forgoes the snappy lingo that makes so many classic crime novel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44579532">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I must have read this book at least 20 years ago, and it was the first Thompson book I'd read. It still haunts me. Of course my caveat is that I love basically everything Jim Thompson wrote, but The Getaway stands out in my mind as particularly unnerving. It's dark irony, mercilesss distrust, and ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24537563">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've seen both movie versions - I prefer Steve McQueen - but I'd never read the Jim Thompson novel. This is a quick read, and the movies stick close to the original. It's hard not to see McQueen and McGraw in the two characters.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I said about another Thompson book:<br/><br/>I walked away from the book with a great sense of depression.  Thompson's characters are so unrelentingly selfish, nihilistic, lacking in any authentic humanity, lost, bugs in a bowl, trying to climb out, that the reading experience can be exhausting...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19203487">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Exciting story, well paced and well written. Except the last chapter, which kind of seemed pointless. Anyway, I would still recommend it for a good bank heist story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good. Completely different from the movies...except for Sally Struthers character (she totally nailed the role). And classic Jim Thompson ending.]]></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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    <body><![CDATA[Now I must see the Sam Peckinpah movie based on this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another Thompson thriller. Really enjoyed it.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A pedal-down bank heist and escape book full of clever turns, unscrupulous thieves and blood blood blood.  I read <em>The Grifters</em> years ago and loved it for it's wheels-within-wheels scheming.  Here, you get the same density of design plus the best pursuit/escape I may have ever read.  The tension neve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30188054">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <review id="71718785">
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    <body><![CDATA[The Alec Baldwin movie was better.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[disturbing - in an awesome way.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Man... I loves me some classic 1950s pulp fiction. Jim Thompson is one of the better writers of this genre. Despite that this book is all over the map, starting with a straightforward bank heist that the main characters Doc McCoy and his wife -- definitely not 'good guys' -- have to escape from, end...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30937080">more...</a>]]></body>
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