Raymond Chandler : Stories and Early Novels : Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Library of America)

by Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler : Stories and Early Novels : Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Library of America)  
published October 1st 1995 by Library of America
binding Hardcover
isbn 1883011078   (isbn13: 9781883011079)
pages 1216
description If you're looking for the perfect gift for yourself or some other lover of mysteries, this beautifully-made volume from the Library of America series ...more
date added
10-02-06



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Platoeatssouls
bookshelves: mystery, theboxmarkeddone
Read in June, 2007
recommends it for: people who want to be happy
Raymond Chandler is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy. Or at least my ownership of this is proof that someone loves me, because these are four of the best novels I've read all year.

Philip Marlowe, Chandler's detective, roams the streets of Los Angeles and environs, looking for clues, criminals, or someone to hit with a witty one-liner. He's tired, lonely, propelled forward by some impetus he doesn't reveal; what we see...more
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Yahya
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03/27/08

Read in March, 2008
راستش وقتی طرح جلد کتاب و عنوانش را دیدم، با خودم گفتم این کتاب خوبی نیست. کتاب البته ترجمه خیلی خوبی داشت و شروع خوبی هم داشت. ولی کل داستان حکایت کش دار دو روز بود. آدمهای بی ربط و مزخرفی داشت و "راز" قصه هم آنقدرها چیز دندانگیری نبود. البته نقاط قوت زیادی هم داشت، من جمله ش...more
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Chris
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02/21/08

bookshelves: fiction
Read in February, 2008
In my first round of reading Chandler (I had read The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, and The Long Goodbye before starting this collection) I was most impressed by the language and the world-weary cynicism. This time, while I still loved those things, I also came to appreciate the nature of Chandler's detectives, especially Marlowe.

Unlike a lot of detectives, especially serialized detectives, Marlowe isn't that smart. He'll tell you so, repeatedly. Instead, Marlowe is ...more
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Rob
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06/30/07

Read in June, 2007
recommends it for: mystery lovers
[D]efinitely [a] classic [piece] of American literature worthy of a second or even first tier position in the pantheon. [...] John commented on some parallels between Chandler and William Gibson (one of my perennial favorites), citing the former as a major and obvious influence on the latter. [...] I agree with John that Chandler’s influence on Gibson is apparent though I think they are going after far different goals as writers: Case is the illegitimate son of the illegitimate son of Philip M...more
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Chander2
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09/29/07

bookshelves: currently-reading
"What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was. But the old man didn't have to be. He could lie quiet in his ...more
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Christian
Christian marked it as to-read
01/06/08

bookshelves: good_quotes_or_descriptions, to-read
This is a collection but if I only read The Big Sleep I would consider it 'read.' Marlowe is an interesting character: a sort of self-aware Don Quixote who understands he inhabits a world were morals are for suckers yet continues to follow them. The following quote is revealing: "I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights."
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Chris
08/23/07

Read in January, 2008
Just picked this up. Really enjoyed reading Chandler on the train rides to/from work last winter. Don't know why, since the stories always seem to be set in southern Cal, but reading him during the winter felt like a good fit. Sort of like I can only listen to Van Halen during the summer. So I'll look forward to picking this up in 4-6 months, I'm guessing...
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rory
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09/10/07

Read in September, 2007
recommends it for: fans of film noir, of course
i only read "the big sleep" in this anthology. partly because my stack of books to read is starting to scare me with its menacing height, and partly because...well, "the big sleep" was just really, really good. suggestive and sly and suspenseful. no wonder this guy's stuff was tapped for cinema adaptation so often.
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Rob
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02/22/08

Read in July, 2005
I love the language of this book, and the wonderfully vivid description of drunk low-lifes in (1930s?) Los Angeles. The book seems to deal more earnestly with subjects like homosexuality and pornography, which is hardly surprising given the Hayes Code of the time.
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Jessica
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03/22/08

Read in March, 2008
Detective novels rock!!! I loved this book. . .I guess I will always have a special place in my heart for characters like Phillip Marlowe; the wonderfully detached private detective.
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Nils
05/10/07

Any and all of these Chandler short novels are a delight, with world weary detective Marlow and LA of the 1940s. The wounded romantic as cynical helper to those in need.
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Robert
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09/09/07

If you're going to read Chandler - and you should - you might as well get it all in one place, so these Library of America volumes are all you really need.
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Leonard
bookshelves: fiction
If you have no Chandler, this collection is a must-own -- the first and third novels here are among the best he's ever done.
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Leo
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05/16/08

the slumming angel. profoundly talented author writing stuff people may actually love to read...
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Hilary
Hilary marked it as to-read
05/13/08

bookshelves: to-read
Aaron loves this stuff...we are totally sharing everything so here I go...
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Rtm
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03/02/08

Read in January, 2008
"Dead men are heavier than broken dreams"
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03/19/07

 

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08/10/07

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book data (includes all editions)

avg rating (all editions): 4.43 (164 ratings)
avg rating (this edition): 4.47 (127 ratings)
number of reviews: 16






other editions

Raymond Chandler: Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)
The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback (Everyman's Library (Alfred a. Knopf, Inc.).)