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The Killer Inside Me

Jim Thompson

3.82 · Rating details · 21,908 ratings · 1,435 reviews

Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers--the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between--as the nicest guy around. He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town, but nevertheless, he's the kind of officer you ...more

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Published March 13th 1991 by Vintage (first published March 13th 1952)

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Oct 25, 2015 Patrick rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-i-would-blurb

This book was recommended to me by someone who worked in the publishing industry, what's more, they liked my book, so I was pretty sure they had excellent taste. I bought it almost immediately, and was excited to give it a try.

That was almost exactly nine years ago. (This might give you a dim glimmer as to what my to-read shelf is like.)

A couple days ago, I was in-between books and looking over my shelves for something I could read before going to bed. I didn't want to start up another Pratchet ...more

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Jun 19, 2014 Shelby *trains flying monkeys* rated it really liked it

Shelves: serial-killer-dude, liburry-book, read-2015

Stephen King said about novelist Jim Thompson: “He was crazy. He went running into the American subconscious with a blowtorch in one hand and a pistol in the other, screaming his goddamn head off. No one else came close.”

I thought I would love this book, and I did somewhat. I feel kinda dirty after reading it though. Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is well..he is a fucker. He hides in plain sight. That calm deputy that draws no attention to himself, but deep inside his monster's lurk.

Told from the f ...more

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Aug 14, 2010 Dan Schwent rated it it was amazing

Shelves: birhday-2010, 2010, pants-shittingly-awesome, cool-covers, thompson, crime-and-mystery

Ever meet someone at a party and think they're pretty cool until they let something slip and you realize they may in fact be bat-shit psycho? That's how Lou Ford, the protagonist of The Killer Inside Me is. I also suspect that Jim Thompson may have been that way as well.

The Killer Inside Me is the story of Lou Ford, a small town sheriff who's a little slow and a little boring. Or he would have you believe. Lou Ford spends most of his time keeping the sickness inside him in check. Lou's a sociopa ...more

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Jul 31, 2012 Trudi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: noir-is-the-new-black, crime-mystery, heart-of-darkness, 2015, classics, pulpy-goodness, stephen-king-recommends, favorites, good-country-people

First of all, a warning: if you happen to pick up the edition I did that includes an introductory essay from Stephen King, make sure you read it after you finish the book. Goddamn it, either the entire principal of *spoiler* completely flies over this man's head, or he just loves being a bastard about these things. After 2014's Twitter controversy where he spoiled a major death for fans of HBO's Game of Thrones series, I'm pretty certain it's the latter.

It's not that he doesn't get it -- he jus ...more

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Feb 17, 2011 Stephen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: psychos, hardboiled-and-noir

HOWDY FOLKS…MY NAME IS LOU FORD AND I’M A MILD-MANNERED, DEPUTY SHERIFF IN A SMALL TEXAS TOWN...OH BTW...I’M ALSO A SADISTIC, DEEPLY DISTURBED, PSYCHOPATHIC KILLER....NICE TO MEET YOU!!

5.0 stars. A “one of a kind” reading experience that I can not recommend more highly for fans of noir crime fiction or psychological thrillers. Told in the first person by Lou Ford, who to all outward appearances is a thoughtful, considerate (if somewhat slow) Deputy Sheriff of Capital City, Texas, population ...more

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Jul 04, 2010 Kemper rated it it was amazing

Shelves: famous-books, noir, serial-killers, favorites, crime-mystery

Jim Thompson must have had noir in his veins instead of red blood cells. This dark first-person story has the reader inhabiting the mind of a killer in way that most authors can't even come close to matching. It's disturbing, chilling and one of the best pieces of crime fiction I’ve ever read.

Lou Ford is a small-town sheriff’s deputy in West Texas. He appears to be just a good natured, not-to-bright, good-ole-boy who usually speaks in a series of clichés to the point of annoying or boring whoeve ...more

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May 21, 2017 Dave Schaafsma rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: books-loved-2017, mystery-detective-thriller, fiction-20th-century

I had not before this read any work by Jim Thompson, though I knew his reputation as a dark and grisly noir novelist from the mid-twentieth century. I had seen The Grifters (which I loved), but never read the book on which it was based (but now will!). I had recently read a comics adaptation of The Killer Inside, and liked it, so committed to reading the original, which I really did basically love.

Well, “love” is perhaps a simplistic stretch of an assessment for my experience of a serial killer I had not before this read any work by Jim Thompson, though I knew his reputation as a dark and grisly noir novelist from the mid-twentieth century. I had seen The Grifters (which I loved), but never read the book on which it was based (but now will!). I had recently read a comics adaptation of The Killer Inside, and liked it, so committed to reading the original, which I really did basically love.

Well, “love” is perhaps a simplistic stretch of an assessment for my experience of a serial killer’s first person account. It reminds me a little bit of Lolita, or Satan, in Milton’s Paradise Lost; in all three of these works you have elegantly written depictions of articulate monsters who convince many others (including many readers!) they are charming and admirable in many ways.

The Killer Inside Me is the story of Lou Ford, a small town (Central City) deputy sheriff who appears to be straight-laced and on the surface unremarkable. He has girlfriends, he has other friends, he does good and responsible work, but he allows no one to get close. Lou grew up with a secret, though: He has a sickness that he wants to control. He’s articulate, he’s well read, but he’s also a sociopath who has killed many people, and no one suspects anything about him. So can he cure his own sickness? The route he takes to mental health, well, let’s just say he may have benefitted just a bit from some professional help instead of just going that self-help route. Mistakes were definitely made going down that road.

The book has some terrific writing, it is deservedly a classic of the genre, but there are some (I warn you) disturbing revelations in this book, which he details even as he talks about the weather and so on in a very calm fashion. He’s seemingly unaffected by what he does. For instance, he seems to care very much for a young man, Johnnie; Lou listens to him, he counsels him, but is finally willing to throw him under the bus (Okay, not literally but you get the point).

There’s some speculation by the narrator himself about what makes him tick, and we are naturally curious about all that. Why does he do it? Is it the result of some early shock? Is it the fact that his mother died when he was young? That he got a step-brother early on, or is it the loss of his step-brother from murder? Lou’s Dad had scores of books on religion and psychology around the house, and Lou read many of them; the presumption is that moral and psychological explanations were sought, once Dad decided Lou had a “problem,” but nowhere in this book is a satisfactory explanation given for Lou’s horrific behavior. He has almost no real insight into himself, which is one really chilling thing about him, of course. At one point Lou says, “There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living,” but he only hints just what it is that needs to be forgotten. He does terrible things and seems to forget them right away!

There's a fascinating exchange between Lou and his pragmatic lawyer about whether anyone can accurately be identified as evil. The lawyer says, "The name you give a thing depends on where you are standing. A weed is just a plant out of place." This kind of relativistic thinking is twisted by both of these guys to their own advantage.

At one point the oblivious monster Lou philosophizes to the young Johnnie: “’Yeah, Johnnie,’ I said, ‘it’s a screwed up, bitched up world, and I’m afraid it’s going to stay that way. And I’ll tell you why. Because no one, almost no one, sees anything wrong with it. They can’t see that things are screwed up, so they’re not worried about it.

We're living in a funny world, kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean?’”

You might wonder why a killer would write his own morbid story. So periodically he talks about the process of writing his (fictional) “memoir.” For instance:

“In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving out punctuation and running his words together and babble about stars flashing and sinking into a deep dreamless sea. And you can’t figure out whether the hero’s laying his girl or a cornerstone. I guess that kind of crap is supposed to be pretty deep stuff—a lot of the book reviewers eat it up, I notice. But the way I see it is, the writer is just too goddam lazy to do his job. And I’m not lazy, whatever else I am. I’ll tell you everything.”

Oh, and he does, I warn you. I do ver much recommend it, but it's disturbing in places at the same time being very well-written. It's a classic, surely, I'll say, one of the top ten noir classics ever. ...more

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Aug 21, 2012 Emily May rated it liked it

Shelves: 2012, mystery-thriller

I went into this with high expectations. I mean, who doesn't love a good psychopath? Especially one with a boat-load of issues who is in a position of authority and trust. Enter Lou Ford, small town sheriff and all-round good guy... or so his sweet and slightly slow disposition would have you think. But Lou has the sickness. Most of the time he manages to keep it hidden beneath a cheery and easy-going attitude, most of the time you would assume he is just your average Joe. Until every once in a ...more

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Mar 25, 2012 Lawyer rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: Anyone

Recommended to Lawyer by: Members of goodreads group Pulp Fiction

Shelves: crime, fathers-and-sons, fiction, good-and-evil, human-behavior, sex, killers, psychological-suspense, psychology, violence

The Killer Inside Me: Jim Thompson's classic Roman Noir

“Just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. As a child may be born without an arm, so one may be born without kindness or the potential of conscience. A man who loses

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Jan 25, 2015 Melki rated it really liked it

Recommended to Melki by: Cathy DuPont

Shelves: crime-fiction

"It's always lightest just before the dark..."

This is one terrific tale, though nasty as all get out.

Thompson seems to have serious Mommy issues, as all his women, be they whores or schoolmarms, are shrewish harpies. AND, he seems to believe that a good beating is the only foreplay a woman should ever need.

He is not alone in his cringe-worthy treatment of the ladies. It seems to be a common problem that has bugged the hell out of me in other books of this ilk and is probably the main reason ...more

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May 08, 2010 Lou rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mystery-thriller, noir

This was a humdinger of a story written through the eyes of a sheriff Lou Ford of a small, middle-of-nowhere west Texas town of Central City. Is he an easy-going, well-liked man and a respected citizen of the town, well known for his quiet, gentle nature? On the inside he has a dark-side he is a sociopathic killer who seems to think that life is ruled by any means necessary, full of both corny, small-town bonhomie and murderous psychosexual rage. He will not hesitate to eliminate his loved ones This was a humdinger of a story written through the eyes of a sheriff Lou Ford of a small, middle-of-nowhere west Texas town of Central City. Is he an easy-going, well-liked man and a respected citizen of the town, well known for his quiet, gentle nature? On the inside he has a dark-side he is a sociopathic killer who seems to think that life is ruled by any means necessary, full of both corny, small-town bonhomie and murderous psychosexual rage. He will not hesitate to eliminate his loved ones with brutal emotional dis-attachment. In the following discussion in the novel he is describing his perspective on life.

"You're a square Joe." "am I ?" i said."How do you know i am, Johnny? How can a man ever really know anything? Were living in a funny world, kid, a peculiar civilisation. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The bad people want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what i mean? If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in toilet paper industry. That's the way i understand it. That's about the size of some of the arguments i've heard."
"Theres a time of peace I said and a time of war. A time to sow and a time to reap. A time to live and a time to die"

Jim Thompson creates a main protagonist that you get to like, but at the same time he has a side to him we would all hate. Thompson tries to show us that the cliched perspective of 1950s America as a land of communal benevolence and white picket fences requires attention. Paper thin, with a cancerous presence under the skin from the actions of 'evil that men do.' It is a mark of Thompson's skill that our identification with Lou, encouraged by his first-person narration, is never quite frayed. While he seems at the same time to explain his reasons for his actions he does not quite understanding why he treads that path, he tries to understand himself in his story by digging out a quote out of a psychology textbook.

"The subject suffers from strong feelings of guilt... combined with a sense of frustration and persecution... which increase as he grows older; yet there are rarely if ever any surface signs of... disturbance. On the contrary, his behaviour appears to be entirely logical. He reasons soundly, even shrewdly. He is completely aware of what he does and why he does it..."

This was my first Thompson novel and made me dig out his other works I found them all to just as hard boiled and compelling. The movie adaptation recently was good but had some brutal images.

Also on my webpage @http://more2read.com/review/the-killer-inside-me-by-jim-thompson/ ...more

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Feb 04, 2012 knig rated it it was amazing

Recommended to knig by: Steve Kendall

Shelves: 2012, favourites

When Boris Vian hoaxed his way into the roman noir scene in 1958 with ‘I spit on your graves’, he was giving Jim Thompson a nod.

This book is riveting. It springs on the back of Chandler and Hammet who were by then moulding the no-nonsense, cynical, take no prisoner ‘Has- Been’ into limelight situations, but whereas these pioneer anti-heroes seem to preserve a modicum of decency, their successors, guided by the likes of Patricia Highsmith, Vian and Thompson seem to surgically remove that modicum, ...more

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Sep 27, 2009 notgettingenough rated it it was amazing

Shelves: modern-lit

This was my orginal thoughts with which I was never satisfied:

Until I saw this my gut feeling was that it would be impossible to take Jim Thompson to the screen, but I stand corrected. Fabulous movie which precisely captures the spirit of Thompson’s writing. I first suggested seeing this to a male who refused on the grounds that ‘horrible things happened to women’ and they do, but I have no idea why this would be interpreted as being about ‘male hate’ ‘misogeny’. Like most people, I guess, my re ...more

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Aug 05, 2018 Tim rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-crime, reviewed, horror, 1950s

"A weed is a plant out of place."

Indulge me for a moment; before I talk about the book’s contents, let me talk about the physical book. The cover of my edition is a plain tan-ish color, with just the title, the author, a few small pictures of sheriff stars, revolvers and bottles lined in a row and then a quote of praise that takes up about a third of the cover. The quote is as follows:

“Probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountere ...more

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Jul 29, 2020 Carol rated it it was amazing

Shelves: library-overdrive, classics, kindle, dark, read-2020, ebook, horror, crime-noir, stephen-king-recommends

WARNING #1 - The Stephen King foreward has major spoilers. (read after)

WARNING #2 - "Hitchhikers* may be escaped lunatics."

Let's begin with a Stephen King quote: "THE KILLER INSIDE ME is an American classic, no less, a novel that deserves space on the same shelf as Moby-Dick, Huckleberry Finn, The Sun Also Rises, and As I Lay Dying. Thompson's other books are either good or almost great, but all of them pale before the horrifying, mesmerizing story of Lou Ford, that smiling good ol' Texas boy wh

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Dec 05, 2016 Nancy Oakes rated it it was amazing

Shelves: crime-fiction-america, crime-fiction

The Killer Inside Me is one of those novels that needs no introduction at all -- it is and will always be a classic of American noir fiction, it's been made into two movies (1976 and 2010), and chances are that if you haven't read the novel you've at least seen the film. Or, if you're really fainthearted, you've experienced neither, since both book and movie are dark, disturbing, and well past the point of unsettling. It's also one of those books that has been studied left and right, inside and ...more

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Oct 19, 2013 Mara rated it really liked it

Shelves: recommended-to-me, 2014-reads, criminal-minds, black-lizard

I've read what some may consider to be a creepy number of non-fiction books on sociopathy (The Sociopath Next Door, Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work, The Mask of Sanity). All of them attempt to offer insight into the heads of these individuals among us who exist without conscience, and adeptly "play human." Many of them (especially The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker - which rumor has it Oprah recommended) try to aid the average, non-so ...more

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Feb 14, 2014 Mike (the Paladin) rated it really liked it

Shelves: thriller

This is a slightly tricky book to rate and review. I want to give at least a minor warning as I think some readers will find the book to some extent disturbing. that said it's considered a classic of it's type and I can see why. The writing could be called masterful.

This novel was written in 1952. Other than a few terms that are obsolete the story holds up well and in no way really feels dated. I mean yeah we have older cars, limited phone availability and a '50s society but it doesn't "jump out ...more

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Aug 03, 2017 jv poore rated it really liked it

Shelves: crime, mental-health, suspense, library-book, horror, mystery

I read this because I saw that Stephen King recommended it. Any thoughts I have would simply be superfluous.

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Jul 28, 2018 Malum rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mystery-and-crime

4.5 stars.
Imagine if Mayberry's Sheriff Andy Taylor was secretly a serial killer and you will have a good idea of what you are getting into with this novel.
This one is hard for me to rate. Just going by how I felt when reading it, I felt it was a solid 4. I really enjoyed it, although I felt it started slowing down just a touch near the end (although the ending itself was fantastic). I have to give it extra points, though, because Thompson's craft is absolutely incredible. He totally nails the ...more

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Jan 07, 2012 Toby rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: lit, black-as-night, favourites

Possibly even better than Pop. 1280, but essentially it's the same conceit - first person, unreliable narrator, manipulating his readers in to feeling sorry for him whilst going about his immoral business, in this case lots of cold blooded murder.

Fascinating and dark, Thompson grabs you with his tale of good ol' boy Lou Ford and you don't want to be let go, even when the house is burning up around you. Ford is more intelligent than everyone around him, but he has a dark secret in his past and a ...more

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Oct 27, 2014 Brandon rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, 2014, noir

The threat of violence in the small Texas town profiled in Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me is so low that the patrolling sheriff, Lou Ford, doesn't even need to carry a gun. Lou doesn't worry because hell, who’s more dangerous in Central City than good ol’ Lou himself? While he speaks in clichés and exudes a friendly demeanour, Lou’s true nature exists behind this social mask; a chilling homicidal maniac who could kill at any moment.

This was my first Jim Thompson and although the brutality o ...more

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Dec 07, 2018 Tom Mathews rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: group-reads, mystery-crime-thriller, read-in-2018, not-for-the-squeamish

I wasn't too sure about this book at the first as it seemed to be a bit slow but it wasn't long before it picked up the pace in a big way and didn't slow down until the end. Jim Thompson has an amazing talent for making the most loathsome characters seem likable. I couldn't help but be engaged and I couldn't figure out how I wanted it to end.

My thanks to the folks at the Pulp Fiction group for introducing this and many other fine books.

I highly recommend this book. ...more

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Feb 13, 2014 Paul rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: Readers of Pulp Fiction/ Hard Case Crime novels

Recommended to Paul by: In introduction for a Richard Stark novel

Shelves: crime-thrillers, pulp-fiction

'The Killer Inside Me' by Jim Thompson

This is my first experience of a Jim Thompson novel & if this is typical of his work, it won't be my last.
I first came across Thompson whilst reading an introduction in one of Richard Stark's novels, who Stark cites as one of his influences & if you've read any of the 'Parker' novels you will notice a similar style to Thompson.
Thompson himself admired Fyodor Dostoyevsky & critic/author Geoffrey O'Bren called Thompson the '"Dime-store Dostoyevsky." Whils 'The Killer Inside Me' by Jim Thompson

This is my first experience of a Jim Thompson novel & if this is typical of his work, it won't be my last.
I first came across Thompson whilst reading an introduction in one of Richard Stark's novels, who Stark cites as one of his influences & if you've read any of the 'Parker' novels you will notice a similar style to Thompson.
Thompson himself admired Fyodor Dostoyevsky & critic/author Geoffrey O'Bren called Thompson the '"Dime-store Dostoyevsky." Whilst comparison with Dostoyevsky may be a 'long bow to draw' there is no doubt they share some common attributes. Both draw vivid & vibrant characters. Both authentically portray their respective eras in their use of language, social conditions & cultural attitudes & prejudices. What i love about Thompsons writing is that, of course, they were written in the era he sets his stories in. That touch of authenticity cannot be matched by modern writers, i don't believe.
'The Killer Inside Me' is told in the first person by Sheriff's Deputy Lou Ford, who to his fellow townspeople seems a likable, amiable, but somewhat dimwitted individual. This carefully cultivated facade masks a monster totally devoid of empathy for his fellow man or any 'normal' emotions we associate with what it is to be a human being.
As a teenager, Ford assaults a young girl & is caught by his older step brother, who for some inexplicable reason takes the blame & is sent to prison. Upon his release, his brother gets a job in construction & is killed on the job in mysterious circumstances. Ford blames the company's owner, Chester Conway, for his brother's death & takes his revenge by killing Conway's son.
Throughout this tale, Ford justifies his killing of Conway (& other's) by claiming (to himself) that his victim's deaths were unavoidable & somehow self defense. At one point though, during one of his many internal dialogues, he concedes he kills, because he likes it. That Deputy Lou Ford is a psychopath, there can be no doubt. You would expect Ford to have a head full of writhing serpents. But far from being the dimwit his fellow townsfolk think him to be, he is extremely intelligent. His every act is carefully considered & ruthlessly executed.
Things start to unravel for Ford when he realizes there may be one witness who can bring his carefully constructed 'house of cards' crashing down. But even staring defeat in the face, he manages, ever the manipulator, to…

If you like a great psychological thriller in the very best tradition of the Pulp Fiction/ Hard Case Crime genre, i urge you to read this. I give this 5 out of 5 stars.

Good reading! ...more

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Oct 06, 2019 Ashley Daviau rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I’ve wanted to read this book for ages and I’m so glad I finally did. I mean, you know a book is going to be good when the foreword is written by Stephen King! I was instantly sucked in right from the beginning, the twisted mind of our main character just absolutely fascinated me. The way the author uses first person narration is what makes this book so great, you really get into Ward’s mind and it’s a dark and terrifying place to be. And I adored every single second of it. This book is dark and ...more

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Aug 04, 2019 Mario rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: own, own-read

“In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving out punctuation and running his words together and babble about stars flashing and sinking into a deep dreamless sea. And you can’t figure out whether the hero’s laying his girl or a cornerstone. I guess that kind of crap is supposed to be pretty deep stuff—a lot of the book reviewers eat it up, I notice. But the way I see it is, the writer is just too goddam lazy to do his job. And I ...more

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Jan 25, 2018 Mindi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

The Killer Inside Me is unlike any other book I've read. Published in 1952, it's a pulpy crime noir novel with a twist. The protagonist is no hard boiled detective hot on the trail of a killer, but rather the killer himself. Lou Ford is the Deputy Sheriff of a small town in Texas, and he's also a sociopathic murderer. And the reader gets to be inside his head for 229 pages. That's a very uncomfortable place to be. (Mild spoilers ahead, so if you want to go into this book knowing very little, sto ...more

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Jul 16, 2019 Carla Remy rated it liked it

From 1952.
I read this once before, and I didn't like it. I now know that a certain amount of his plots sink into non literal hell. Consciousness taken over by extreme insanity. I'm still not sure how I feel about this as a way to end a book. This one definitely has the precedent of insanity in his past, so I guess that matches up with the end. ...more

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Feb 22, 2021 Cphe rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: boxall-2021, 2021, dark-very-dark, murder

Dark, twisted and violent tale. Set in a small town in Texas Lou Ford is a Deputy Sheriff. Only trouble is good old Lou isn't quite right for the position he holds......
From the Boxall 1000 list. Would have rated it higher but the ending was a let down for this reader. ...more

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Jul 25, 2007 Nathan rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: crime and horror fans, lovers of great writing

Jim Thompson worked on oil rigs in his youth. It's filthy, dangerous, deeply hair-raising work, all to get at something that's as precious as it is polluted. Reading his novels is surprisingly similar. His whiskey-soaked misogyny will make your skin crawl, but his ability to plumb the darkest corners of the human soul, with both skill and sympathy, is unmatched in literature.

This is the best Thompson book I've read by far, and one of the best books I've ever read for sheer narrative skill. His p ...more

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Jim Thompson

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James Myers Thompson was a United States writer of novels, short stories and screenplays, largely in the hardboiled style of crime fiction.

Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by pulp fiction houses, from the lat ...more