Author - Raymond Chandler
Genre - Detective, Hardboiled, Philip Marlowe, Crime, Murder
Source - Audiobook
Rating - 4
Read - July 2015
The Long Goodbye finds Marlowe at his most devil-may-care, at his most pungent, at his hardest, and at his most tender. He is going the extra mile, nay, the extra light-year for his friend, he is getting beaten to an inch of his life by the police, he is playing Steinitz in chess, and Chandler is, at one point almost sounding like literature (however much he might have detested me saying this). But he was supposed to give back murder to the people who commit it, wasn't he?
I am happy with the sequence in which I read the three Chandlers. The Big Sleep is the big one- with big characters, big plotlines, even big holes in the plot. Then, The Lady in the Lake is clean as a whistle - there's a master at his peak - it's not as powerful as The Big Sleep, but with its ducks very much in order. And then this - Ray Chandler is a world-weary man now, pouring his vitriol at the readers. It is a magnificent experience.
Raymond Chandler is a magnificent experience.
Genre - Detective, Hardboiled, Philip Marlowe, Crime, Murder
Source - Audiobook
Rating - 4
Read - July 2015
The Long Goodbye finds Marlowe at his most devil-may-care, at his most pungent, at his hardest, and at his most tender. He is going the extra mile, nay, the extra light-year for his friend, he is getting beaten to an inch of his life by the police, he is playing Steinitz in chess, and Chandler is, at one point almost sounding like literature (however much he might have detested me saying this). But he was supposed to give back murder to the people who commit it, wasn't he?
I am happy with the sequence in which I read the three Chandlers. The Big Sleep is the big one- with big characters, big plotlines, even big holes in the plot. Then, The Lady in the Lake is clean as a whistle - there's a master at his peak - it's not as powerful as The Big Sleep, but with its ducks very much in order. And then this - Ray Chandler is a world-weary man now, pouring his vitriol at the readers. It is a magnificent experience.
Raymond Chandler is a magnificent experience.
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