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Stu (Stu) Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.182.89
| Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 04:34 pm: | |
Just heard that there's going to be a new film version of Jim Thompson's novel out next year starring Casey Affleck and Jesscia Alba. |
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Stephen Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw
Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1
| Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 04:47 pm: | |
That's one I'll be reading before I watch any film version - on Ramsey's recommendation as part of my "inside the mind of a killer" season. I recently picked up a copy of Thompson's 'The Getaway'. The Peckinpah film version is arguably my favourite Steve McQueen movie. |
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Stu (Stu) Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.182.89
| Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 04:52 pm: | |
TKIM was the first Thompson novel I ever read. Still not read The Getaway though despite having seen both film versions. |
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Stephen Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw
Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1
| Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 05:09 pm: | |
I'm a bit embarrassed in that I'd never even heard of Jim Thompson before Ramsey's recommendation. The literary equivalent of Alfred Hitchcock I gather... ... !!! |
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Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 05:24 pm: | |
More like Hitchcock on good drugs, I'd say. Thompson's my favourite crime writer - exceptional stuff. |
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.83.10
| Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 06:49 pm: | |
Thompson's stuff is superb - I read a couple of omnibuses of his work many years back, and have a lot of his stuff as published by Black Lizard. |
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Stu (Stu) Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.178.40
| Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 08:10 pm: | |
>>More like Hitchcock on good drugs, I'd say. Bad drugs, surely? I'm way behind on Thompson's stuff. Read a few of his novels back in the '90s but need to catch up. |
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Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106
| Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 09:23 pm: | |
Nah, only good drugs produce that kind of athletic, muscular weirdness. :-) |
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Stu (Stu) Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.178.40
| Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 09:39 pm: | |
Yes, obviously only good drugs would give you sado-masochistic paranoid delusions along with homicidal tendencies. And only you would describe that stuff in such positive terms as "athletic, muscular" making it sound all healthy and wholesome. You sick freak.![](http://www.knibbworld.com/campbelldiscuss/clipart/crazy.gif) |
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.83.10
| Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 11:06 pm: | |
You guys need to read the fiction of John Franklin Bardin and Dorothy B. Hughes to say the least. Absolutely stunning crime stuff. |
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.83.10
| Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 11:07 pm: | |
That is, of course, if you've not read 'em yet - no offence meant! |
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Alexicon (Alexicon) Username: Alexicon
Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 88.106.34.157
| Posted on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 03:01 am: | |
Ahem...Ladies and gents,it's also time to get onto the pathological works of Tess Gerritsen.Last year,I bought 7 of her novels in one go. Smitten,I guess. |
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Stu (Stu) Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.188.51
| Posted on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 06:02 pm: | |
Mick, funny enough I was just googling Dorothy B Hughes last night. Oo-er, missus etc. Alexicon, got a Gerritsen on the TBR. Dunno when I'll get round to it. |
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Alexicon (Alexicon) Username: Alexicon
Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 88.106.97.195
| Posted on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 03:08 am: | |
Good on you,Stu. Gerritsen rocks forensically. |
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Stephen Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw
Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.0.106.15
| Posted on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 03:34 am: | |
Also recently picked up a copy of Dashiell Hammett's debut novel 'Red Harvest' (1929). After enjoying 'The Maltese Falcon' so much I'm really looking forward to this one and thankfully know nothing whatsoever about it, except... "In 'Red Harvest', Hammett achieved a poetry of violence." Sounds good to me! |
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Stu (Stu) Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.191.101
| Posted on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 06:25 pm: | |
Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon are also on my TBR list and have been for ages. It always takes me ages to get round to reading things. |