Jim Thompson "The Killer Inside Me" (1952) ****1/2
The Killer Inside Me (1952) is my third and favorite Jim Thompson book so far. To steal the cover quote by Stanley Kubrick: "probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered." Thompson wrote the dialogue for Kubrick's The Killing and the screenplay for the director's Paths Of Glory.
I have not seen the 1976 film version of Killer, but I think the 2010 version is excellent and it is an incredibly accurate adaptation of the novel (literally every page is translated).
I have not seen the 1976 film version of Killer, but I think the 2010 version is excellent and it is an incredibly accurate adaptation of the novel (literally every page is translated).
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