Pop. 1280

by Jim Thompson

First published 1984 · 215 pages

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  • Josh100/100

    Wow. Pop. 1280 knocked me plum on my ass, as the narrator might put it. Pop. 1280 is literature dressed up to look like pulp fiction (specifically crime fiction). I went into it expecting something in the general vein of Chandler, Christie, or Hammett with perhaps a bit more humor and silly hijinx mixed in (I'd read the description on the back cover and knew it wasn't a regular whodunit). As you…

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