Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas.The worst thing most people can say against him is that he's a little slow and a little boring.But, then, most people don't know about the sickness --the sickness that almost got Lou put away when he was younger.The sickness that is about to surface again.
An underground classic since its publication in 1952, The Killer Inside Me is the book that made Jim Thompson's name synonymous with the roman noir .
James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906, Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory - April 7, 1977, Los Angeles, California) 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. A number of Thompson's books became popular films, including The Getaway and The Grifters.
The writer R.V. Cassill 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".[1] 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."[2]
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[3] in his themes.
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说实话,这本书绝对不是那种能让你在海滩上轻松阅读的消遣读物。它需要你投入全部的注意力,甚至在合上书本之后,你还需要时间来“消化”它所带来的冲击。我最欣赏的是作者对于叙事视角的掌控,那种第一人称的叙述,让读者完全沉浸在主角的意识流中,我们被迫以一种非道德的、纯粹观察者的角度去看待发生的一切。这种叙事手法带来的疏离感,反而加剧了故事的真实性和恐怖感,因为我们无法轻易地跳脱出来批判,只能跟随他一起深入黑暗。这种体验是罕见的,它挑战了我们对“正常”与“异常”的固有认知。它不仅仅是一个关于犯罪的故事,更是一次对人类本能的深度挖掘,读完后,你会对自己的人性产生一些新的、或许不太舒服的思考。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直让人屏息凝神,作者对人物内心世界的刻画入木三分,那种潜藏在日常表象之下的暗流涌动,被描绘得淋漓尽致。我特别喜欢那种逐步揭开真相的过程,每翻过一页,都感觉自己像是被拽入了一个更加幽深的迷宫。主角的思维方式,那种冷静到近乎病态的逻辑,以及在关键时刻展现出的果决与残忍,都让人不寒而栗,却又忍不住想知道他下一步会做出什么。文字的密度很高,没有一句是多余的废话,每个场景的设置都充满了象征意义,细思极恐。我读完后劲很大,甚至在现实生活中,都会不自觉地审视周围的人,怀疑那些完美表象下是否也藏着同样的阴影。这本书的魅力就在于,它没有给我们廉价的道德审判,而是强迫我们直面人性的复杂与幽暗,探讨“恶”是如何在最意想不到的地方滋生成长的。
评分我很少读到如此具有“质感”的小说,仿佛每一个段落都有其独特的触感。它不像许多同类作品那样依赖外部的刺激来推动情节,而是完全依赖于内部逻辑的自我驱动。主角的动机,虽然在常人看来是不可理喻的,但从他自己的逻辑体系出发,却是完全自洽的,这种内在的一致性,是这本书最令人信服也最令人毛骨悚然的地方。作者似乎对人性的某些阴暗角落有着异乎寻常的敏锐洞察力,他笔下的人物,没有一个是扁平的脸谱,即使是边缘角色,也带着自己复杂的历史和挣扎。这本书的阅读体验像是一次漫长而艰苦的心理探险,它要求读者保持高度的警觉,因为任何一个松懈都可能让你错过作者精心布置的陷阱。强烈推荐给那些追求深度心理描写和非传统叙事风格的读者。
评分这本书的结构处理得极其精巧,完全不像初次涉足此类题材的作品,更像是经验丰富的大师之作。它巧妙地在看似平淡的日常对话和突然爆发的极端行为之间找到了一个平衡点,使得整个故事的张力保持在一个极高的水平线上。那种“暴风雨前的宁静”被运用得炉火纯青,每次主角试图回归“正常”生活的努力,都显得那样脆弱和可笑,让人忍不住想叹息。它没有宏大的背景设定,所有的冲突都集中在极小的空间内发酵,这份“局促感”反而放大了压迫感。我特别留意了作者在时间线处理上的技巧,那些闪回和当下场景的交织,并非是为了打乱阅读顺序,而是为了构建出主角扭曲的记忆和认知世界,非常高明。
评分从文学性的角度来看,这部作品的语言功底实在令人叹为观止。它不像某些流行小说那样追求快速的感官刺激,而是更注重氛围的营造和心理张力的蓄积。那种如同老式黑胶唱片上细微的电流声,缓慢而持续地爬上你的脊柱,直到你全身紧绷。作者对环境的描摹也极其出色,那些看似平凡无奇的场景,在特定的光线下,突然间就带上了不祥的预兆。我感觉自己仿佛身处那个故事发生的时空,能闻到空气中弥漫的紧张气味。情节的推进非常巧妙,它不是那种跌宕起伏的大开大合,而是通过细微的表情变化、不经意的对话失误,一点点地构建起一个密不透风的心理陷阱。阅读的过程是一种智力上的享受,你需要跟上叙述者的步伐,去解读那些未明言的暗示和潜台词,稍有不慎就会错过重要的线索。
评分心理派硬汉侦探小说的开山之作 虽然没后面的人写的那么细致 没有特别讲变态的养成 但是我觉得同时避免了想当然的童年阴影导致后来杀人的套路 挺好
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评分心理派硬汉侦探小说的开山之作 虽然没后面的人写的那么细致 没有特别讲变态的养成 但是我觉得同时避免了想当然的童年阴影导致后来杀人的套路 挺好
评分亮点是对主人公扭曲的内心世界精确到帧的刻画,然后通过他的矛盾人格、杀欲和愤世嫉俗建立一个深具黑色精神的世界,最后让人感觉现实世界并不比主人公的内心世界更光明。缺点是逻辑的坑大到了让人感觉智商被侮辱的程度。整部作品显得用力过猛,主题先行严重。
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