false 1937324 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg 776159 48 1939840 book 1943 The Lady in the Lake total:1590|5:420|4:725|3:406|2:39|1:0| 1590 6296 2050 88 1377 4.04 18014 1439 9616336 311907 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.97 1469 4 1 false Tue Nov 27 14:38:00 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 27 13:58:49 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 27 14:05:05 -0800 2007 Raymond Chandler. I always heard his name in comparison to Murakami, so I've been interested in reading one of his books for as long as I've been a Murakami fan.

This was so much fun to read mostly because Chandler's detective is witty and smart. He notices the small things a...more...]]> 42058312 990760 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 21:55:14 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 22:02:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 41893575 915919 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 3 0 false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 17:09:26 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 17:12:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 12929248 580984 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 4 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 17:26:59 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 16:31:59 -0800 2008
Cool, smooth, and impossible to put down. Knocked it back in a mere 24 hours.]]> 78608865 1222918 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 5 0 false Sun Nov 22 01:03:23 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 01:10:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 66339640 780695 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 5 0 false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 14:53:22 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 19:50:54 -0700 2009 The Chill) by Macdonald. Of course, by this point in his career, Chandler had had three novels and a couple dozen short stories to sift through to get down to this bedrock. Sti...more...]]> 35486273 157171 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 16 13:43:23 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 13:50:01 -0700 2008 Once more...]]> 34424188 736266 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 3 0 false Thu Oct 16 19:43:35 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 05:25:11 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 19:43:35 -0700 2008 The Long Goodbye -- although it's just occurred to me that there's a major plot point that is very similar in the two books. Chandler's wise-cracking private eye, Philip Marlowe, is hired to investigate the disappearance o...more...]]> 30998221 1390403 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 3 0 false Fri Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 13:05:55 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 00:45:43 -0700 2008
short plot description: Philip Marlowe is hired by Derace Kingsley to find his wife Crystal. She has left him four weeks ago and send him a telegram that she will divorce him and marry her boyfriend Chris Lavery. But Lavery denies any knowledge of ...more...]]> 74326336 1326399 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 2 0 false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 17:03:39 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 17:06:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 53189625 1246350 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 4 0 false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 20:43:16 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 20:45:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 45103314 829049 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 4 0 false Sun Feb 01 20:54:02 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 20:57:00 -0800 2009
This is good, predictable work.
The term predictable is probably a weak choice. I mean it is a solid example of hardboiled detective fiction. The action, the anti-hero, the dead woman. It's all there, in all the right places...like the curves ...more...]]> 47084497 1748147 447738 0394721454 9780394721453 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1205805083m/447738.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/447738.Lady_in_the_Lake 4.07 15 5 0 false Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 15:51:03 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 08:35:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 76864496 2277259 1937324 0860092275 9780860092278 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1937324.Lady_in_the_Lake 3.00 1 3 0 false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 17:45:02 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 12:53:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 66938146 2013716 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 4 0 false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 06:39:33 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 05:46:12 -0700 2009
I love following a character like Philip Marlowe. Reading one these books is just like watching a classic movie to me. Its an original, it was stories like this that was the template for future books.

...more...]]> 44381292 349292 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 3 0 false Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 06:14:31 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 06:49:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 15567027 30729 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 4 0 false Sat Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 10:17:47 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 10:53:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 80378179 676328 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 4 0 false Tue Dec 08 22:30:40 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 22:33:07 -0800 2009 4525963 278063 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 4 0 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 07:30:32 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 12 20:06:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 58594945 1031706 776159 0394758250 9780394758251 76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178248523m/776159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake 3.96 1590 5 0 false Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 17:52:56 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 17:38:54 -0700 2009
I don't have much more to say than that. You know how some books and some movies, they make you feel like you have eaten a delicious sandwich? That is how I feel about Raymond Chandler.]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1937324