Title: Too discombobulated for me
Product review: I seem to be out of sync with everyone else who has read this book--after agonizing through twenty pages, I finally put it down for good. Having relied almost totally upon taped conversations with more than a hundred people who knew Jim Thompson over the years, the author (or, rather, editor) seemed to cut and paste excerpts from these conversations in a manner that made no sense to me. On one page we meet Jim after his stroke, on the next page he was a teenager, then two pages later his ex-wife pops up--no thanks, not my kind of book. On the other end of the spectrum, however, is "Ghost Soldiers," the book I picked up next. Now there's a book worth reading.
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