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    <body><![CDATA[Jim Thompson wrote about a lot of sociopaths, but the narrator of &quot;Pop. 1280&quot; is the tops--a cold-blooded sheriff who represents himself as a dumb, aw-shucks good old boy to his townspeople, to the reader, and to himself, even as he plots and does horrible things. By the time you get to th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1983144">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nobody wrote crazy like Jim Thompson, and this is one of his best. A big oaf with shit for brains who happens to be the town sheriff gets walked on by every creep and low-life in town. He settles the score by taking advantage of everyone under-estimating him as the Village Idiot even though he's got...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32572219">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thompson has a gift for making an audience underestimate his characters - the simpler they seem, the more trouble they're probably cooking up . Needless to say, this book is all poker faces until Nick Corey unloads double-ought into the guts of some very deserving townsfolk. These murders go to the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11049481">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Shérif de Pottsville, village de 1 275 âmes, Nick Corey a tout pour être heureux : <br/><br/>un logement de fonction, <br/><br/>une maîtresse <br/><br/>et surtout un travail qui ne l'accable pas trop car il évite de se mêler des affaires des autres. <br/><br/><br/>Bien sûr, cette rou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67468059">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard to describe this book. Crime? Western? Satire? Most definitely comedy. Pop. 1280 is hilarious. Jim Thompson's main characters aren't what you might call heroes, but I was somewhat fond of Sheriff Nick Corey. He's a not-so-dumb good-guy loser.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend gave me this book. I was expecting more murder than comical cowboy existentialism. Nick Corey's a do-nothing philosophical sheriff running for re-election. When it gets dark it's very dark. About as sentimental as a choking cactus.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was browsing I stumbled into <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.crimetime.co.uk/features/jimthompson.php">this.</a><br/><br/>After I read that I wanted to start reading Thompson. I started with Pop. 1280 because it has the highest rating here in Goodreads, compared with the other Thompson's books.<br/>I thought chapters 1 - 4 were amateurish, though there are some part...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71755398">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished &quot;Pop. 1280&quot; and I find myself perplexed by the whole thing. I get that Nick Corey isn't as dumb as he leads on.  In fact he is quite the opposite.  And to a degree he delivers his &quot;brand&quot; brand of justice to the people he determines need it.  But then he is just m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33181666">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Incompetent small town sheriff becomes competent at murder, goes a bit mad somewhere along the way. Smarter than he acts, and with a strong appetite for women and food that remains undiminished by conscience, he manipulates the worst in others to in order to retain his cushy job. By the end of the t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11091654">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I start feeling sorry for people…and the way it eventually works out is it’d be a lot better if I hadn’t felt sorry for them. Better for them, I mean. And I guess that’s natural enough, you know? Because when you’re sorry for someone, you want to help them, and when it sinks in on you that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55873619">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am currently reading this book. So far the main character Nick is having problems with these two pimps. As the sheriff he shouldn't be getting crap from some low down pimps. Nick turns to a friend (a sheriff of another county) for advice. His friend tells him &quot;whatever they do to hurt you, do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75603558">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The coupling of passive aggression with psychotic aggression is fun, but it isn't fun enough to drive even a slim novel. Thompson would have needed to throw something else in to really win me over. However, after <em>Wise Blood</em> and <em>Heart is a Lonely Hunter</em>, I needed a take on small-town southern living ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67271924">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What can i say about this? Thompson is a master from one story to the next his style changes so dramatically and this book is as crazy as the characters in it. It wraps you up in the &quot;is he stupid or crazy&quot; Nick Corey and the insane turn of events and spiralling out of control story. But i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80851468">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sick man, Jim Thompson. Or at least sick mind. Still, great writer. Lots of Thompson's novels have been made into movies -- mostly so-so movies -- including The Getaway and The Grifters. This one was adapted by French filmmakers and set in West Africa. It's called Coup de Torchon and, if you ask me,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39475505">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I was reading this, I wanted to make a spider-web chart of how all the characters relate to one another. I didn't, though. At present, I really wish that either of my DVD players worked so I could watch &quot;Coup de Torchon&quot; and take it back to the library. Who wants to watch this with m...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best from one of the best pulp fiction writers ever. <br/>It is a equal parts pulp fiction and black comedy. <br/>He portrays himself as bumbling small town sheriff but<br/>Nick Corey has an almost Machiavellian grip over the people in his life.<br/>Much better than french movie adapt...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pop. 1280 shocked me with its subtle skill. The narrator is cleverly imagined and expertly brought to life. I'd never read Thompson before but he really showed me something in this short, fast book. Clever is the word that keeps repeating itself to me. Thompson is a true pro.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No one gets the fair treatment in this book, and everyone has a secret and a gun or lead pipe.  This one is a classic- Jim Thompson should be given more credit in the pantheon of Americana.  It was hard to read but harder to put down.]]></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 b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19441465">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great work of pulp fiction by the master, Jim Thompson.  This is set in a small rural Texas town and centers around lazy, care-free sheriff who avoids all conflicts and confrontations to the point of absurdity - that is until he meets a new lover.  The foreground story is interesting, funny,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1274995">more...</a>]]></body>
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