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I just got this book, so I will probably start reading it early in March. It's pretty short. :-)
Need to check my libraries for this one.
Linda wrote: "Need to check my libraries for this one."Hopefully they have it. Fingers crossed.
Stephen King's favorite crime novelist is Jim Thompson. Director Stanley Kubrick called his 1952 classic The Killer Inside Me, “probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered.”
I've never read anything by him before. I started this and I'm immediately swept up by the story. It's intense.
This story was ...what the.... what the.. lolI liked it but man I needed to get out of that mans HEAD
Alissa wrote: "This story was ...what the.... what the.. lolI liked it but man I needed to get out of that mans HEAD"
Yes. I needed a scalding hot shower after reading this, what a trip!
Just finished it....what a sick mind. Having the book written from his point of view was very powerful, but .... yuck! I need a puppy and a hug now.
Ioana wrote: "Just finished it....what a sick mind. Having the book written from his point of view was very powerful, but .... yuck! I need a puppy and a hug now."Yes! I agree! It's one of those books I'm glad I read, and also glad it wasn't longer!
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're happy to have keeping your streets safe. The sort of man you might even wish your daughter would end up with someday.
But behind the platitudes and glad-handing lurks a monster the likes of which few have seen. An urge that has already claimed multiple lives, and cost Lou his brother Mike, a self-sacrificing construction worker who fell to his death on the job in what was anything but an accident. A murder that Lou is determined to avenge--and if innocent people have to die in the process, well, that's perfectly all right with him.
In The Killer Inside Me, Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel that will forever be known as the master performance of one of the greatest crime novelists of all time.