Biography - Thompson, Jim (Myers) (1906-1977): An ...
 Author: --Sketch by Jane M. Kelly Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 9 Publication Date: 2002-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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King Blood
Over-the-top raunchy fun: In the edition that I read, the foreword, written by Elmore Leonard, states "This book is terrible". Or something along those lines. Elmore Leonard really hated this book and reviewed it only resentfully on the orders [... more]
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Roughneck
One of the most enjoyable Thompson reads available!: Roughneck pretty much takes up where Bad Boy left off. It was originally published in 1954. In Roughneck, as was the case with Bad Boy, we get a sort of creatively enhanced autobiography of the king of [... more]
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These Tips Were Made for Talking: Selling & Management ...
Author: Jim Thompson Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781598866995 ISBN: 1598866990 Number Of Pages: 114 Publication Date: 2006-12 [... more]
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Fireworks: The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson
Good Old Time Pulp!: This is a collection of Jim Thompson's early fiction and short stories. Anyone who has read any of Thompson's work will appreciate the stories in this book. After a while you even begin to see where some of his novels came from. The [... more]
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The Physics of Genesis
Author: Jim Thompson Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781414111605 ISBN: 1414111606 Number Of Pages: 216 Publication Date: 2008-09-10 [... more]
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Game Design: Principles, Practice, and Techniques - The ...
As well thought out as a AAA game: Recently I started to entertain the idea for a game prototype I had in mind, since I was a bit green on the process I wanted to find a book that will cover the basics and make it all crystal clear for me. Unfortunately [... more]
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The Nothing Man
Hard-boiled hilarity: This will surely draw some flak, but I prefer "The Nothing Man" to "The Killer Inside Me," the novel most people see as Thompson's best. "Killer" might be Thompson's literary masterpiece, but " [... more]
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The Getaway
Vivid Characters in an Odd Allegory.: True to its title, "The Getaway" tells a story of crooks fleeing a bank job, looking forward to freedom and the good life in Mexico. Doc McCoy is a career criminal, fresh out of a stint in prison. His wife, [... more]
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The Kill-Off
Solid: Sort of Thompson's version of the Peyton Place/small town soap opera stories that were popular in his day. Which means, of course, that it's pretty twisted. The book's structure is intriguing -- it's told in a series of monologues by the [... more]
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The Transgressors
Sub-par Thompson: Jim Thompson has written some exciting novels, but his canon also comprises quite a few second-tier books, including "The Transgressors." Tom Lord is bright man from a good family, who through a series of misfortunes is unable [... more]
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Savage Night
Great hard-boiled noir novel: Jim Thompson is one of America's great hardboiled/noir writers, and there will never be another writer like him. It's impossible, his background and experiences were just too varied. He wrote some terrific books, and this is [... more]
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