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Best books to learn Jim Thompson, in order
The darkest shelf in American crime writing — first-person narrators who are charming, plausible and monstrous, written for paperback originals at enormous speed. The order below is for survivability rather than chronology: there is no point starting where the bleakness is unrelieved.
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Jim Thompson books in order: where to start with the pulp psychopaths
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- How should I approach learning jim thompson?
- The darkest shelf in American crime writing — first-person narrators who are charming, plausible and monstrous, written for paperback originals at enormous speed. The order below is for survivability rather than chronology: there is no point starting where the bleakness is unrelieved.
- What's a good book to start jim thompson with?
- A strong starting point is The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson. The ordered reading paths above show exactly where it fits and what to read next.