The Grifters Audiobook

" I didn't like this story at all. It could be because I read it over the course of a couple of weeks at various doctor's appointments, so there was some anxiety happening already, but it was just...depressing and not cool. I really wanted more--I felt like there were entire characters who did nothing, who were never fleshed out past one depressing episode, and others who we got WAY TOO MUCH about. Ugh. "

" My favorite Texan writer. Jim Thompson understood a world of con-artists and petty theives, and the complicated lives they led. "

" I loved the movie from the 80s and someone recommended the book to me. The book is set in the 60s and seems to fit that atmosphere much better. It's a great twisted story although I wouldn't classify it as suspenseful as the book cover does. "

" The jacket of the copy I read claimed the book to be, "Strong Meat," and I couldn't put it better myself. "

" Does every American teen go through a phase of reading pulp novels and wanting to grow up to grift? When I actually did grow up, I met, and spent a few days with, a couple of real grifters. They were so totally amoral and devious that they made the characters in this novel seem like lovable Dickensian wastrels. A fun read. "

" Very good. Dark and twisted with excellent characters and characterizations. The sense of wounded souls abounds in a Thompson novel. "

" Jim Thompson is pretty great. The Killer Inside Me was amazingly dark and potent and The Grifters is full of emotion and darkness that was just as surprising. I never know what to expect and I'm never let down. Great read, check it out. "

" Probably my favorite Jim Thompson novel. I like the movie a lot, too, though John Cusack is miscast. "

" Although I enjoyed this book , I think that this is one of the rare times where I thought the film was better than the book. "

" For some reason, about half way through this book~ it totally lost my interest. No real reason why. I just stopped caring. "

" Umm, it was good. I was 50 pages into it but I now can't find it. "

" Thank god for my nook for helping me look up words that I didn't know. Reason why I say that b/c this book was written before I was born. I thought it was a fun read. The ending baffled me a little but I remember the part at the very beginning of the book and it all made sense to me "

" I was expecting bleak, but this strikes hard and true: deep into the Death of the American Dream. Formidable. "

" One of those crime novels where there are absolutely no good guys. "

" I liked every Jim Thompson book I ever read. Pop. 1280 was probably the favorite "

" Thompson's hard-boiled, hard-won tale of mothers and sons. Can any writer make a better twist than Thompson? "