Sonny,
All of his books are worth reading and I don't say that about every
writer, but I would recommend all of Thompson, Chandler, Hammett,
Goodis and Charles Williams to anyone interested in hardboiled crime
fiction. I might even throw in Westlake, though I myself haven't read
everything of his so I can't say.
Jeff
On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:08 PM, sonny wrote:
> i appreciate everyone's feedback and recommendations re: jim
> thompson and look forward to reading much more of his work.
>
> --- On Wed, 2/17/10, davezeltserman <Dave.Zeltserman@gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: davezeltserman <Dave.Zeltserman@gmail.com>
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: the getaway/jim thompson
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 11:45 AM
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> Sonny, you should check out Fireworks: Lost Writings of Jim
> Thompson. It has the novella, This World, then the Fireworks, which
> is one of Thompson's most psychotic works as one of one of his most
> interesting ones, and it also contains a collection of his short
> stories, some of which are excellent. One of them "Forever After"
> is maybe 2000 words, but I think it is about as perfect a crime
> short story as you can find. What he accomplishes in those short
> number of pages is remarkable.
>
> Dave
>
> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, sonny <sforstater@...> wrote:
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>> wow. there i was, having read up to the last chapter and last
>> night i began it. all of a sudden i'm reading borges! i'm
>> wondering if i'm really tired or is this really a big change,
>> especially first 4 pages, before anyone (doc) is even mentioned
>> again.
>>
>> apparently this is not that outrageous for thompson (i've only
>> read 'killer inside me' and 'pop 1280'). the whole book was good,
>> but what an ending. which thompson should i read next?
>>
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