Casey Affleck stars in a film rendition of this book that recently came out and although it’s pretty spot on I think you’ll find when reading that some things just cannot translate.ġ0. Lou Ford takes to bashing around a hooker named Joyce Lakeland, who likes it a great deal and encourages him to keep coming back.ĩ. The ending will probably make you wish you were still in the thick of the narrative, which is either a sign of the novel’s excellence or an observation that ending something this strange and unconventional is not-fucking-easy.Ĩ. Jim Thompson is one of the most intriguing figures to ever write a story about a killer and-unlike most-he does it best in the first person.ħ.

Lou Ford takes a lot of baths and reading this in a hot bathtub is very difficult.Ħ. The novel’s author, Jim Thompson, was known as Dimestore Dostoyevsky, which is also correct.ĥ. Stanley Kubrick called it “probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered.” And he was correct.Ĥ. He strikes everyone in town as a moron, and somehow when he starts killing this makes it all the more irksome.ģ. Lou Ford is a small town sheriff who kills people in extremely gruesome ways (though the language chosen to describe it is subdued).Ģ.

The killer inside me book summary