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Cropper's Cabin
For Tommy Carver, a short-tempered Okie sharecropper penned up in a sweltering cabin with a brutal father and a stepmother whose affection is anything but maternal, the question isn't when he'll explode, but who he'll take with him when he does. "My favorite crime novelist--often imitated but never duplicated."--Stephen King.
146 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1952
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Jim Thompson
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James Myers Thompson was a United States writer of novels, short stories and screenplays, largely in the hardboiled style of crime fiction.
Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by pulp fiction houses, from the late-1940s through mid-1950s. Despite some positive critical notice, notably by Anthony Boucher in the New York Times, he was little-recognized in his lifetime. Only after death did Thompson's literary stature grow, when in the late 1980s, several novels were re-published in the Black Lizard series of re-discovered crime fiction.
Thompson's writing culminated in a few of his best-regarded works: The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, A Hell of a Woman and Pop. 1280. In these works, Thompson turned the derided pulp genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and surrealism.
The writer R.V. Cassills has suggested that of all pulp fiction, Thompson's was the rawest and most harrowing; that neither Dashiell Hammett nor Raymond Chandler nor even Horace McCoy, author of the bleak They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, ever "wrote a book within miles of Thompson". Similarly, in the introduction to Now and on Earth, Stephen King says he most admires Thompson's work because "The guy was over the top. The guy was absolutely over the top. Big Jim didn't know the meaning of the word stop. There are three brave lets inherent in the forgoing: he let himself see everything, he let himself write it down, then he let himself publish it."
Thompson admired Fyodor Dostoevsky and was nicknamed "Dimestore Dostoevsky" by writer Geoffrey O'Brien. Film director Stephen Frears, who directed an adaptation of Thompson's The Grifters as 1990's The Grifters, also identified elements of Greek tragedy in his themes.
James Myers Thompson was a United States writer of novels, short stories and screenplays, largely in the hardboiled style of crime fiction.
Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by pulp fiction houses, from the late-1940s through mid-1950s. Despite some positive critical notice, notably by Anthony Boucher in the New York Times, he was little-recognized in his lifetime. Only after death did Thompson's literary stature grow, when in the late 1980s, several novels were re-published in the Black Lizard series of re-discovered crime fiction.
Thompson's writing culminated in a few of his best-regarded works: The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, A Hell of a Woman and Pop. 1280. In these works, Thompson turned the derided pulp genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and surrealism.
The writer R.V. Cassills has suggested that of all pulp fiction, Thompson's was the rawest and most harrowing; that neither Dashiell Hammett nor Raymond Chandler nor even Horace McCoy, author of the bleak They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, ever "wrote a book within miles of Thompson". Similarly, in the introduction to Now and on Earth, Stephen King says he most admires Thompson's work because "The guy was over the top. The guy was absolutely over the top. Big Jim didn't know the meaning of the word stop. There are three brave lets inherent in the forgoing: he let himself see everything, he let himself write it down, then he let himself publish it."
Thompson admired Fyodor Dostoevsky and was nicknamed "Dimestore Dostoevsky" by writer Geoffrey O'Brien. Film director Stephen Frears, who directed an adaptation of Thompson's The Grifters as 1990's The Grifters, also identified elements of Greek tragedy in his themes.
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August 10, 2024
"Cropper’s Cabin" is unlike anything else Thompson published. It is bereft of psychopathic deputies, lacking dirty, underhanded tricks, and doesn't detail a descent into the depths of hell. The protagonist Tommy Carver is not a conman or other shady dealer. This is a piece of country pulp like what Harry Whittington put out. Tommy grew up in a shareholder's shack in the Oklahoma countryside with his meanspirited stepfather and Tommy is busy romancing a rich man's daughter and causing all kinds of havoc at school. Thompson paints this bitter town with a broad brush, encompassing poverty, incest, race relations, legal affairs, and more. But there are few who can write country pulp this good or this believable. In many ways, it is a coming of age story as Tommy has to grow up and stand up to his father, to his girlfriend's father, and to the law, which it appears Tommy has run afoul of.
This is a fairly short book and very easy to read.
This is a fairly short book and very easy to read.
February 3, 2024
07/2018
From 1952. An intense novel. A saga of suffering, pain, beatings, twisted ankles and wrongful imprisonment.
From 1952. An intense novel. A saga of suffering, pain, beatings, twisted ankles and wrongful imprisonment.
July 6, 2011
About as close as you’re gonna get to a literary version of a Russ Meyer movie like “Mudhoney” or “Common Law Cabin” with a strappin’ young hillbilly science scholar fightin’ off the pulchritudes of his half-breed girlfriend, steamy buxom foster maw or even the apple biting teacher with the biggest pair of blackboard erasers this side of the Loozyanna swamps. Just to keep the Russ vibe flowing there’s whips crackin’ and jeeps flyin’ through the next 158 pages. Maw even pleasures herself on Page 48, too much. Haji call your agent.
July 26, 2010
This is not a popular book among Thompson readers, probably because it's really, really not a crime novel and certainly not a thriller. But I thought it was brilliant. The plot is a little slow and unsatisfying, but the voice and the glimpses of Oklahoma life and race politics are magnificent. This is one of my favorite Thompson novels. But if you're looking for the "Jim Thompson Feeling," don't read it -- in terms of plot and worldview, it bears very little resemblance to his Romans Noir. The marketing and cover copy for the novel tend to paint it as a variation on The Killer Inside Me -- with the idea that the main character is a powderkeg waiting to blow. That's a total mischaracterization of this novel; it's not a crime novel; it's not a thriller; it's not a noir. It's a down-home poor-people American-tragedy sort of book with an extraordinarily uncharacteristic ending for Thompson. As such, it's a terrible choice if you're looking for a short nasty Thompson novel, but an invaluable glimpse into what sort of man Thompson really was.
I loved it.
I loved it.
August 30, 2025
This is an interesting novel from Jim Thompson, a long way from being at his best, and missing the grit that he is renowned for. While there is an unpleasant father, noticeably absent are psychopathic law officers, underhand swindling and dirty deals, and the steady descent into darkness of a key character. I think, if you didn’t know who had written it, Thompson would be way down the list of guesses.
Tommy Carver is an unremarkable high school student trying to graduate, who has grown up with a nasty stepfather in a sharecropper’s shack in backcountry Oklahoma. His attentions are on romance, though escaping the drudgery of everyday life is a close second.
Thompson depicts the town as a rundown mess, with racism, incest and corruption rife, but does so in not as much lurid detail as in his best work.
There happens a murder, for which murder Tommy is the chief suspect. He didn’t do it of course, but nobody believes him. With the stubbornness associated with a 19 year old, full of pride and determination, he takes a stand, though this soon appears to be foolhardy.
Any Thompson is good to read, and this is quick and straightforward, though I would have appreciated more darkness and depth. The main problem is that Tommy’s character doesn’t convince; had he been 15 years old, that could have worked better.
Tommy Carver is an unremarkable high school student trying to graduate, who has grown up with a nasty stepfather in a sharecropper’s shack in backcountry Oklahoma. His attentions are on romance, though escaping the drudgery of everyday life is a close second.
Thompson depicts the town as a rundown mess, with racism, incest and corruption rife, but does so in not as much lurid detail as in his best work.
There happens a murder, for which murder Tommy is the chief suspect. He didn’t do it of course, but nobody believes him. With the stubbornness associated with a 19 year old, full of pride and determination, he takes a stand, though this soon appears to be foolhardy.
Any Thompson is good to read, and this is quick and straightforward, though I would have appreciated more darkness and depth. The main problem is that Tommy’s character doesn’t convince; had he been 15 years old, that could have worked better.
July 18, 2023
Padri e Figli
Raramente Thompson mi lascia indifferente, e anche in questa storia 'minore' è riuscito ad acchiapparmi; è questione di umore, non c'è niente da fare, e di un certo modo di proporre le cose le situazioni i personaggi.
Lui ci riesce, ci gioca, li mescola e li tira sul tavolo che è una bellezza. Vincere o perdere è secondario.
Il protagonista, il ragazzo Tom Carver, accusato di un omicidio che non ha commesso, non è che compia chissà quali casini come altri protagonisti di Thompson. È un ragazzo con la testa sulle spalle, l'unica corda che lo tiene al palo è la situazione familiare, specialmente suo padre, uomo dal carattere difficile. Infatti sarà quest'ultimo a metterlo nei guai.
Qui più che in altri romanzi dell'autore c'è una prima parte che, per quanto priva di veri e propri snodi narrativi, riesce a creare un'atmosfera sana e al tempo stesso malsana che mi ha ricordato il miglior Caldwell, quello di "Tobacco Road" e "Il piccolo campo", capace di far muovere le foglie anche senza vento.
Sarà questione di dialoghi, o forse di dialoghi in bocca ai personaggi giusti, o forse personaggi giusti in cerca di essere capiti, o forse... Be', insomma, avete capito, quando succede succede, non sto parlando di alta letteratura o ghirigori linguistici. Anzi, forse tutto il contrario, rendere semplici le cose semplici.
La seconda parte guadagna in avvenimenti ma perde un po' di intensità, diventa un meccanismo che vira verso un sentimento di vendetta, anche se non così scontato come può sembrare, o almeno non negli atteggiamenti di Tom.
Non è un capolavoro, me ne guardo bene da usare certi termini, e in fin dei conti chissenefrega, ma se vi piace l'autore, credo vi piacerà anche questo romanzo senza bisogno di strapparvi i capelli. Mica poco.
Raramente Thompson mi lascia indifferente, e anche in questa storia 'minore' è riuscito ad acchiapparmi; è questione di umore, non c'è niente da fare, e di un certo modo di proporre le cose le situazioni i personaggi.
Lui ci riesce, ci gioca, li mescola e li tira sul tavolo che è una bellezza. Vincere o perdere è secondario.
Il protagonista, il ragazzo Tom Carver, accusato di un omicidio che non ha commesso, non è che compia chissà quali casini come altri protagonisti di Thompson. È un ragazzo con la testa sulle spalle, l'unica corda che lo tiene al palo è la situazione familiare, specialmente suo padre, uomo dal carattere difficile. Infatti sarà quest'ultimo a metterlo nei guai.
Qui più che in altri romanzi dell'autore c'è una prima parte che, per quanto priva di veri e propri snodi narrativi, riesce a creare un'atmosfera sana e al tempo stesso malsana che mi ha ricordato il miglior Caldwell, quello di "Tobacco Road" e "Il piccolo campo", capace di far muovere le foglie anche senza vento.
Sarà questione di dialoghi, o forse di dialoghi in bocca ai personaggi giusti, o forse personaggi giusti in cerca di essere capiti, o forse... Be', insomma, avete capito, quando succede succede, non sto parlando di alta letteratura o ghirigori linguistici. Anzi, forse tutto il contrario, rendere semplici le cose semplici.
La seconda parte guadagna in avvenimenti ma perde un po' di intensità, diventa un meccanismo che vira verso un sentimento di vendetta, anche se non così scontato come può sembrare, o almeno non negli atteggiamenti di Tom.
Non è un capolavoro, me ne guardo bene da usare certi termini, e in fin dei conti chissenefrega, ma se vi piace l'autore, credo vi piacerà anche questo romanzo senza bisogno di strapparvi i capelli. Mica poco.
February 20, 2019
Tommy Carver 19 ans à peine, vit sous le joug d’un père raciste qui résout les problèmes à coup de ceinturon. Il endure cela au côté de sa belle-mère Mary, une femme au passé trouble qui n’a pas une once d’instinct maternel. Il est l’amant secret de Donna Ontime, fille du plus gros propriétaire terrien, Amérindien, qui s’entête à cultiver son coton plutôt que d’exploiter le pétrole qu’elle contienne. Le père de Tommy au bout du rouleau souhaiterait vendre son terrain de 10 acres perdu au milieu des milliers d’acres d’Ontime mais aucune société pétrolière ne voudra acheter si peu de terrain. Tommy est un élève brillant, ce qui ne l’empêche pas de trouver des problèmes à l’école.
J’ai beaucoup aimé ce roman qui sort des codes du roman policier et penche plutôt pour un roman noir rural, parce que l’Oklahoma y est grandement évoqué et les aperçus de la politique raciale sont juste excellents. L’auteur brosse un tableau assez précis de ce qu’on peu trouver comme pauvreté, racisme, sexe, communauté, famille, amour et haine. J’ai été bouleversé par l’histoire de Tommy, j’ai eu le sentiment qu’il devait grandir rapidement pour faire face à son propre père, au père de Donna ainsi qu’ à la loi. Certains passages sont très durs de ce qu’il peut endurer et je supporte toujours mal l’injustice. La première partie du roman est plutôt lente et elle est là pour planter le décor en nous faisant découvrir le quotidien imparfait de ce jeune homme. Puis un drame arrive qui fait prendre au roman un autre chemin sombre sur lequel nous allons découvrir un côté plus introspectif du personnage. Une lecture intense remplie de souffrance, de coups et de chevilles tordues, un côté tragique et touchant et une fin inattendue pour ne pas dire inespérée dans le genre noir que j’ai trouvé brillante et poétique. Je découvre cet auteur et je ne pense pas en rester là. Bonne lecture.
J’ai beaucoup aimé ce roman qui sort des codes du roman policier et penche plutôt pour un roman noir rural, parce que l’Oklahoma y est grandement évoqué et les aperçus de la politique raciale sont juste excellents. L’auteur brosse un tableau assez précis de ce qu’on peu trouver comme pauvreté, racisme, sexe, communauté, famille, amour et haine. J’ai été bouleversé par l’histoire de Tommy, j’ai eu le sentiment qu’il devait grandir rapidement pour faire face à son propre père, au père de Donna ainsi qu’ à la loi. Certains passages sont très durs de ce qu’il peut endurer et je supporte toujours mal l’injustice. La première partie du roman est plutôt lente et elle est là pour planter le décor en nous faisant découvrir le quotidien imparfait de ce jeune homme. Puis un drame arrive qui fait prendre au roman un autre chemin sombre sur lequel nous allons découvrir un côté plus introspectif du personnage. Une lecture intense remplie de souffrance, de coups et de chevilles tordues, un côté tragique et touchant et une fin inattendue pour ne pas dire inespérée dans le genre noir que j’ai trouvé brillante et poétique. Je découvre cet auteur et je ne pense pas en rester là. Bonne lecture.
September 10, 2020
In the foreword to Jim Thompson’s “The Killer Inside Me” Stephen King talks about the unevenness of Thompson’s oeuvre . In order to illustrate his point he references the brilliance of works like “Pop. 1280” and “The Killer Inside Me” and compares them to what he considers some of Thompson’s lesser efforts. Specifically, when discussing the “lesser” efforts King cites Croppers Cabin as the crappest of the crap.
Going into Cropper’s Cabin that’s all I knew. That King thought it was shit. The bar was set low...and maybe that low bar is falsely inflating my view of the book but I gotta be honest, I think old Steve-y K is wrong about this one. Croppers Cabin was great, a flawed but likable protagonist, a decent love story a beautifully written ending. It was exciting, evocative, immersive. I loved it. Not one of Thompson’s top five but still amazing!
Going into Cropper’s Cabin that’s all I knew. That King thought it was shit. The bar was set low...and maybe that low bar is falsely inflating my view of the book but I gotta be honest, I think old Steve-y K is wrong about this one. Croppers Cabin was great, a flawed but likable protagonist, a decent love story a beautifully written ending. It was exciting, evocative, immersive. I loved it. Not one of Thompson’s top five but still amazing!
October 21, 2014
This is my first Thompson book and I guess this particular story is not like his others but it was brilliant. A story that I thought was going to be a coming of age, against all odds type of story but turns into something very tragic, heartbreaking and disturbing. As uncomfortable as I was reading it, it ended the right way. What a relief!
September 30, 2015
The first half of this novel is such a great setup that it had me thinking that this might just be one of my favorite Thompson novels but the last half seriously deteriorated in a haze of lame dialogue and many pages of unexplained willful disobedience by the protagonist while he is serving a prison sentence. So after the rip-roaring start I ended up being disappointed.
October 31, 2015
Another time, another place, star crossed lovers, and no wasted words or time. An absolute masterpiece.
addendum. accidentally re-read. Felt ever so familiar for ten pages and when i realized, i finished it again.
addendum. accidentally re-read. Felt ever so familiar for ten pages and when i realized, i finished it again.
February 6, 2015
Not recommended to readers just getting started on on the work of Jim Thompson.
Everything bad you've read about this novel is understated.
Tawdry, tiresome, and predictable.
Everything bad you've read about this novel is understated.
Tawdry, tiresome, and predictable.
February 18, 2022
Sauver quelque chose? Mais, bon sang, comment un homme pourrait-il sauver quoi que ce soit quand il est incapable de se sauver lui-même?
March 7, 2020
The year of Jim Thompson continues with what is by far the best book of his I’ve read this calendar year. It may be a cut below his truly greatest works like Pop. 1280 and The Grifters but it’s really darn good.
I once heard Jason Concepcion of The Ringer fame compliment Quentin Tarantino by saying that the director “democratizes pop culture.” In other words, he takes B-movie stuff like gangster films and martial arts tales and turns them into high art.
Thompson can perhaps be thought of in the same way: he turns the dime store novel into something psychologically horrifying. What started as what appeared to be an Oedipus tale in rural Oklahoma morphed into something else, something far grander, that by the last page, I had my mouth open. And it’s because of two reasons…
1. Thompson plied his manual labor trade in the fields of Texas and Oklahoma. He knows the sparse, unforgiving landscape well and you feel it in his books.
2. Thompson’s ability to delve into the human psyche to identify our base impulses, unfulfilled desires, and unchecked rage…I’ve just never read anyone like him. Apologies to Stephen King, whose books I enjoy, but Thompson writes horror. Not spooky monsters and ghost houses. Rather Thompson understands the scariest monster of all: our inner selves when trapped in a bad environment.
I’ve read some of Thompson’s semi-autobiographical work; it’s clear that paternal angst is prevalent throughout. Thompson never forgave his father for the man’s financial misdeeds that apparently cost his family a fortune. He retells Oedipus many times in his books yet I keep reading because while the story is familiar, the approach is always fresh and scary.
This is a great book to check out if want to get into Thompson’s work, though I don’t recommend him to many.
I once heard Jason Concepcion of The Ringer fame compliment Quentin Tarantino by saying that the director “democratizes pop culture.” In other words, he takes B-movie stuff like gangster films and martial arts tales and turns them into high art.
Thompson can perhaps be thought of in the same way: he turns the dime store novel into something psychologically horrifying. What started as what appeared to be an Oedipus tale in rural Oklahoma morphed into something else, something far grander, that by the last page, I had my mouth open. And it’s because of two reasons…
1. Thompson plied his manual labor trade in the fields of Texas and Oklahoma. He knows the sparse, unforgiving landscape well and you feel it in his books.
2. Thompson’s ability to delve into the human psyche to identify our base impulses, unfulfilled desires, and unchecked rage…I’ve just never read anyone like him. Apologies to Stephen King, whose books I enjoy, but Thompson writes horror. Not spooky monsters and ghost houses. Rather Thompson understands the scariest monster of all: our inner selves when trapped in a bad environment.
I’ve read some of Thompson’s semi-autobiographical work; it’s clear that paternal angst is prevalent throughout. Thompson never forgave his father for the man’s financial misdeeds that apparently cost his family a fortune. He retells Oedipus many times in his books yet I keep reading because while the story is familiar, the approach is always fresh and scary.
This is a great book to check out if want to get into Thompson’s work, though I don’t recommend him to many.
September 25, 2025
It's been a long while since I've found myself *emerging* from a book. The morning got away from me and suddenly it's lunchtime and I'm sitting forward, blinking my eyes, slowly setting the book down on the arm of the chair, feeling like I just came from some other place - which I did - and attempting to reacclimate myself to the 'real' world. To use a cliché: I got lost in the story. Which does not - for any appreciable length of time - happen all that often, and is, truthfully, about the best recommendation I can give. Cropper's Cabin is a crime novel set in rural Oklahoma. It's the human aspect - the psychology - that makes this book so compelling. It's author - Jim Thompson - like the fast talking lawyer Mr. Kossmyer in the story - "knows people." Their dark side, at least. The people in Mr. Thompson's books are oftentimes as base and venal as they come. A cozy mystery this is not. But if you like compelling fiction you should read it for sure.
April 12, 2019
I labelled this book "historical" because I didn't know where to file it on my shelves, it's certainly not a police novel(la), even if there's a murder and a man goes to jail. By all means, this is noir, even if the ending is different than I expected.
This is the first Jim Thompson book I ever read - I was advised not to start with it, but it was just there so I read it anyway. And I did right because if I would not have picked it "normally" (I decided to read every suspense/mystery/thriller book that my library buys this year - it's hard to keep up !), I finally enjoyed it very much.
The context was interesting, the Indian question was viewed under an angle I'm not familiar with, I really wanted this angry young man to get out of this life, but I didn't see how it could be managed and feared the worst for him. The ending surprised me (and relieved me).
This is the first Jim Thompson book I ever read - I was advised not to start with it, but it was just there so I read it anyway. And I did right because if I would not have picked it "normally" (I decided to read every suspense/mystery/thriller book that my library buys this year - it's hard to keep up !), I finally enjoyed it very much.
The context was interesting, the Indian question was viewed under an angle I'm not familiar with, I really wanted this angry young man to get out of this life, but I didn't see how it could be managed and feared the worst for him. The ending surprised me (and relieved me).
February 24, 2025
A wrongfully accused thriller, a melodrama, and a Southern Fried Wuthering Heights. Tom Carver and Pa come to a head over "the self" where Heathcliff and Hindley Earnshaw fell out over "the other". In fact, it is the white men who take on the role of the "other". Jim Thompson takes advantage of a niche historical circumstance to invert antebellum power dynamics. Poor, white sharecroppers occupying the lowest caste is a scandalous premise for '52, and while the protagonist shatters an awfully contrived glass ceiling, the racial component mostly distracts from real economic concerns. The man suspected of the crime might have less to say than the culprit. One's mindset is quite literally immaterial. The war with the self is vanity.
September 21, 2020
Wows again to Jim Thompson. This is among the best of what I've read of his (maybe 6 or 7 books at this point?). He not only puts us in the mind of deranged individuals, he forces us to sympathize with them and see them as victims to their own impulses and the societal or familial circumstances that contributed to them. This is the beauty of his work, this shift of perspective. Cropper's cabin isn't really action packed and the protagonist is not all that bad, but you can feel the weight of his dilemmas closing in on him and get a sense for what breaking bad might entail or feel like. Anyway, great quick read. Fantastic colorful writing per usual.
January 19, 2018
Another great book by Jim Thompson. Tom Carver does everything he can to ruin his own life. His father and teachers treat him like he is smart. But he does very little to support this. Very dramatic. One thing stands out in my mind: a lawyer is featured in this at the second half of the story and all the dialogue coming out of his mouth is just great, reminds me of Bob Odenkirk channelling Saul.
October 3, 2022
Even when Thompson aint that good, he's still great. I could swear no two books of his are the same and this one aint any different. This here's a real unique story, and I couldnt tell you what was going to happen just by the way things were going. You just can't predict what story Thompson will tell. There's something to be said for the many lives Thompson lived, and it always pours over into his stories and characters to make something of a damn interesting read. And thats just what this is.
December 21, 2024
My Nasty Family - lol
No one likes poverty and squalor more than I do, but I like a half-decent story to go along with it.
Tom Carver is one unlucky S.O.B. and that's it. That's the whole story.
No ending at all.
JT had a real hard time with endings - at least in these books.
At least the "My Nasty Family" theme is here, and that beats "My Kooky Family" by a long way. The latter is a fatal flaw and I won't put up with it at all.
No one likes poverty and squalor more than I do, but I like a half-decent story to go along with it.
Tom Carver is one unlucky S.O.B. and that's it. That's the whole story.
No ending at all.
JT had a real hard time with endings - at least in these books.
At least the "My Nasty Family" theme is here, and that beats "My Kooky Family" by a long way. The latter is a fatal flaw and I won't put up with it at all.
January 25, 2020
I’m a Thompson fan but this one was pretty much just white trash noir. Like most of his it’s very politically incorrect in this day and age but just not much happening or worthwhile (i.e. whacked out) characters to keep a readers interest. Meh
November 27, 2022
I'm probably a bit generous giving this one three stars. Two and a half more like.
Lacks the edge of his other novels. Some good parts here and there, but at the end it all comes off as a bit pointless.
Lacks the edge of his other novels. Some good parts here and there, but at the end it all comes off as a bit pointless.
March 3, 2019
A pesar de tener varios fallos argumentales me alucina cómo ambienta Thompson estas novelas más rurales.
October 27, 2019
A happy ending in a Jim Thompson book??????????
January 20, 2020
Bella storia ma assolutamente non tra le migliori di Thompson
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January 5, 2021
I think I got this from Charlie Sanders when he moved to LA.
April 8, 2022
This book starts off bleak and gets bleaker. It's a good one, though not one of Thompson's best. I wrote a longer review at https://adiamond.me/2022/04/croppers-....
December 6, 2022
Beverly Hillbillies
noir.
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