Wednesday, July 15, 2015

The Lady in the Lake

Author - Raymond Chandler
Genre - Detective, Hardboiled, Philip Marlowe, Crime, Murder
Source - Audiobook
Rating - 4
Read - July 2015

Philip Marlowe is a private eye, it is his job, he is doing a job, he can do this job - and he is also seeing the world for what it is. Dreary. Bitter. Futile. He is making us look at our world. 
As a murder mystery, this is better, more intricate, more intelligent, more complete than 'The Big Sleep' (my impressions of that book are here), but that is a better, more compelling book. This isn't much worse though.
Read both. Read Chandler. Our world hasn't changed much in the last 70 years. One of the other books I have started is 'The Dark Knight Returns', and that one smells the same as this.
Ray Chandler is the Poet Laureate of Sleaze Street. Indeed, was the poet laureate of Sleaze Street, a position now taken up by Frank Miller. Here's to them both.

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