> Along with the four Grubers I mentioned in another
post, I found four
> Jim Thompson reprints by Mysterious Press. Can
anyone tell me if any of
> these are any good: Kill-Off, Rip-Off, Golden Gizmo
and the
> autobiographical Bad Boy (although isn't he supposed
to have take great
> liberties with facts here?).
Bad Boy is great. Read it as if it were a novel. I think it's
a prequel to Roughneck. Kill-Off and Rip-Off are good--not
great--if you're a fan of Thompson. Golden Gizmo (along with
King Blood) is probably the worse novel Thompson ever wrote.
It's just plain bizarre. If Thompson ever was a junky, this
would have been the fruits of that period. It features a
talking dog. Need I say more? Maybe if you read it as some
kind of twisted Beat literature, it works at some level . .
.maybe.
Jeff V.
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