The Golden Gizmo (2014)

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Author

Jim Thompson

Genre

Fiction

Rating

3.5 of 5 Votes: 2

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ISBN

0316403989 (ISBN13: 9780316403986)

Language

English

Publisher

mulholland books

Shops

Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble

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About book The Golden Gizmo (2014)

When it’s well over 100 degrees and you’re trying to find comfort in your drought addled, heat stroked confines it’s the right time to serve yourself up some 1950s crime fiction – hard boiled, naturally.Despite its weak title this short, fast moving novel has a lot going for it. The protagonist is a small time con man with a long streak of getting himself out of hotspots while searching for the next grift. Thompson moves the action along mainly through the use of dialogue giving the story a frantic pacing that reads as much like a screenplay as it does a novel. Fans of Thompson’s work can expect all of the surprise twists and triple-crosses that keep both the novel’s characters and reader on their toes.

Another great read by Mr. Thompson. I know I'm a complete sell out for anything this guy wrote but still,it doesn't change the fact that it becomes a bit more obvious every single time that Thompson is the master of Pulp/Pop fiction.I mean seriously, who can introduce a talking dog in a book and still manage for every reader to be like: yeah, makes sense, pretty common, I buy that? Jim Thompson, that's who.The Golden Gizmo is like any other Jim's books, it makes you feel like you're driving full speed on the highway.

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ahhh. yeah, there's the fix. lotsa pulpy, page-swishing plot with 2 or 3 good twists that come faster and harder as you reach the end of the book. all the must-haves are here: the con man, the cold-hearted dame, the good girl, the old-school hardass, the freaky guy ... oh, and a talking dog. never quite figured out the dog's reason for being here -- other than to increase the freak factor of the freaky guy -- but whatevs. it didn't distract at all from the story of a guy who has to cut some ugly deals just to stay alive.
—Jess