The Rip-Off

I was hesitant about reading The Rip Off because of everyone on here claiming how much it sucked. Well, after reading it I can definitely say it is only they who are doing the sucking. This book cracked me up! I had to do a fake cough several times to cover up my laughter. Thompson knows how to write......more

This is some way from being Thompson at his best, and it’s easy to say that’s down to the lack of violence, which is usually a feature of his work. But I think it’s deeper than that, the progression of the plot feels forced at times, there isn’t the smooth quickening pace of the narrative that one i......more

Great, great read. Dizzying sensuality, deceit, doom - and black humour. "It is one of fate's saddest pranks to imbue the least sexually appetizing of us with the hugest sexual appetites." Laughter in the dark.......more

Makes sense that the Year of Jim Thompson coincided with the Year of our Lord 2020 because both have been mostly duds. His lesser works are just bad. This might not have been as painful as The Golden Gizmo or The Alcoholics but it's an uninspired Double Indemnity knockoff that Thompson wrote near t......more

For me, reading Jim Thompson's books is like having dessert. He fulfills my need to eat up crime stories. This one is about a rich, sexy woman who enters into Britt Rainstar's life. As things begin to take a bad turn in Britt's life, he tries to get out of her clutches before he himself gets murdere......more