false 2050 32 Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard. 1263111 1940 Farewell, My Lovely total:2264|5:789|4:984|3:434|2:54|1:3| 2264 9294 2923 145 4 2 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon May 28 05:19:21 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 19:15:16 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 24 12:51:27 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 09:21:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 14:17:23 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 17:21:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 21:38:30 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 19:02:48 -0700 2009 1
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So I love Raymond Chandler but I have such a damned hard time following him until the very end. I'm proud to say I predicted the end of The Lady in the Lake, but not quite so with this one. I'm a su...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1971 Sat Jul 05 06:11:38 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 11:36:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Apr 03 11:10:17 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 11:11:14 -0700 2008 Raymond Chandler, and in fact it was also my introduction to the American hardboiled school of crime writing. Within a few pages I was totally hooked by Chandler’s prose. I also quickly became fond of Philip Marlowe, and was pleasantly surprised to find th...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Mar 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 10:34:29 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 11 09:16:59 -0700 2008 Farewell, My Lovely reminded me of Cornell Woolrich in that Raymond Chandler's plot is at least as ridiculous as the plot of any (famously ridiculous) Woolrich novel. What is remarkable is how differently Chandler and Woolrich deal with their own absurdities. The Woolrich strategy is to build a no...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 22:57:14 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 10:45:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 06 09:20:45 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 09:21:54 -0700 2009
And, Marlo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Tue Dec 02 11:55:04 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 11:55:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 13:07:38 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 13:28:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 14 23:21:33 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 23:30:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 16:39:46 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 13:47:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 true false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 08:55:23 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 06:09:39 -0700 2007 Raymond Chandler (I read i The Big Sleep i earlier in the year). For those who are unfamiliar, Chandler writes stylized detective mysteries set in the LA area during the first half of the 20th century. Real fodder for film noir. The reading is not exactly light, but it's quite ...more...]]>