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"That's okay," I told...more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 4 5 false Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 03 16:14:09 -0800 2009 Mon Jun 22 06:27:20 -0700 2009 1
Marlowe ac...more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 4 4 false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Oct 28 11:55:11 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 05 00:37:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 4 5 false Tue Oct 23 21:38:32 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 26 08:33:23 -0700 2008 Raymond Chandler. His prose really hit me between the eyes and to this day i think he's such a remarkable talent. Maybe by now there are others in the crime lit that can out-master the master, and you can imitate his 'voice' but the poetry is his and his alon...more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 5 2 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Mon Feb 25 07:04:23 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 25 07:04:23 -0800 2008 Raymond Chandler's novels epitomized the original hard-boiled detective. You know, the humorless Humphrey Bogart in a trenchcoat, chain-smoking while he wades his way through a mess of lies and tight-lipped suspects. All the while providing the most amazingly acc...more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 4 4 false Sat Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 02:06:18 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 02 06:49:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 4 1 false Sun Nov 16 08:27:13 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 08:27:36 -0800 2008 Raymond Chandler's first novel, published in 1939? Dashiell Hammett may have preceded Chandler with Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, but Chandler's style, as well as protagonist Phillip Marlowe, stand on their own.

Both Hammett and Chandler can be credited wit...more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 3 1 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Oct 11 07:06:40 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 07:06:52 -0700 2007 Raymond Chandler. He’s not only the best, but considering that The Big Sleep was written in 1939, he was one of the first. The novel begins like most detective novels of today…setting the stage for the crime, the criminals, and the intrigue...more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 5 1 false Thu Aug 02 10:15:37 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 10:38:45 -0700 2007
The plot is famously confusing and it's almost irrelevant who the wrongdoers really are. Some critics have take...more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 4 1 false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 10:15:04 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 14:34:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 3 1 false Wed Dec 05 08:02:31 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 08:29:05 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 3 1 false Fri May 30 22:47:58 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 22:49:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 6121670 2 1 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1232544052m/6121670.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6121670.The_Big_Sleep 5 1 false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jan 21 05:08:32 -0800 2009 Sat Sep 19 08:42:35 -0700 2009 3 Comment upon second reading: Philip Marlowe's fate is the same as it was the first time I read this book: to be a five-star character trapped in a three-star novel (which, on a metaphysical level, means that it is actually a four-star novel).

Comment upon third reading: Okey, Raymond Ch...more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 5 2 false Thu Mar 05 20:33:27 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 20:49:19 -0800 2009 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 4 1 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 18 11:10:25 -0800 2006 Mon May 28 22:41:32 -0700 2007
"It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid-october, with the sun not shining, and a look of hard rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief...more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 4 0 false Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 07:47:23 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 07:55:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 4 1 false Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 15:01:21 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 15:24:29 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 4 0 false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 20 16:31:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 16:56:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 3 0 false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 13:19:15 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 13:20:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2052 0394758285 9780394758282 5337 489 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581195m/2052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep 5 1 false Sun Aug 02 16:39:54 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 17:01:40 -0700 2009
I originally read it in "The Raymond Chandler Omnibus," which is an ideal place to encounter it, because you can just go right into Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window and The Lady in the Lake, thereby satisfy...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1999613