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    <body><![CDATA[This subject is probably discussed at great scholarly length elsewhere (perhaps in Joshua Waletsky's 1999 documentary &quot;Dashiell Hammett: Detective, Writer&quot;) but, at the moment, I'm not sure where, so I'll add my 2¢'s worth: &quot;Red Harvest&quot; is about a detective hired to 'clean up' ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11024233">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books I love beyond a number of other “better” works of art, so don’t expect a balanced and overly critical review. Not that the book isn't fantastic. [SPOILERS AHEAD, SPOILERS AHEAD:]<br/><br/>My very first exposure to Hammett was the novella, Woman in the Dark, publish...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22255388">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 16 17:25:45 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Here's how she stacks up.  Pete's throwed in with McGraw.  That lines coppers and beer mob up against me and Whisper.  But hell!  Me and Whisper are busier trying to put the chive in each other than bucking the combine.   That's a sour racket.  While we're tangling, them bums will eat us up.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9868853">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15355420">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A blood- and gin-soaked hardboiled detective novel, noir before there was noir. Kinda goes like this for about 200 pages:<br/><br/>&quot;There was a time when I wanted to be left alone. If I had been, maybe now I'd be riding back to San Francisco. But I wasn't. Especially I wasn't left alone by th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15355420">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1787863">
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite Dashiell Hammett novel. It has a great plot, probably the most complicated mystery story I've ever read. It makes one feel dirty after reading it because the imagery is so vivid. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a writer, I've never gotten a good handle on how to plot, which is one reason why this book was such a good read for me. From the first paragraph, Hammett launches straight into his iconic story of the corrupt town and the enigmatic and morally ambiguous loner who arrives and proceeds to blow the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38972153">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4349635">
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    <body><![CDATA[Militant high brows and low brows agree, this is one of America's coolest novels. Dirty, violent, hardboiled and yes, every character swigs down cheap booze in every chapter. But Red Harvest will always defy the cliche's, and its not just because it is the source for most of them. On its surface, Re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4349635">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24313300">
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    <body><![CDATA[I am somewhat conflicted by this book.<br/><br/>On one hand, the plot, the actual narrative, didn't really interest me.  Lot's of double-crosses, tough guys, dames, and characters with cool names like Whisper and Pete the fin.  I feel as though the book is too long for the story being told, and I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24313300">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hammett's first novel is a cobbling-together of several BLACK MASK short stories: there are some bumps in the narrative road, and a lot of characters come and go (emphasis on &quot;go,&quot; where I mean &quot;for good&quot;), but ultimately this novel is a masterpiece of violence and cynical social...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46638783">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always love the tone of a good hard-boiled mystery from the golden days of pulp fiction.  This book delivers plenty of short, biting dialog and cold, remorseless characters.  The Continental Op is a classic anti-hero.  My problem with it is that there is too much violence and not enough mystery fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35455841">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Entertaining. It gets a little repetitive- the narrator cleans up a corrupt town one bad guy at a time- which probably explains why it's one of the few Hammett books that wasn't made into a movie. Hammett's a great writer, and, as with The Maltese Falcon, some of the best parts are those that don't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17301786">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easily the strangest of Hammett's books, though without the narrative unity of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Maltese Falcon" title=" The Maltese Falcon"> The Maltese Falcon</a> or the bleakness of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Glass Key" title=" The Glass Key"> The Glass Key</a>. The Op drifts into town for one job, solves the initial murder early on, and spends the rest of the book kicking the town to pieces for the fun of it. A sickening, c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1166287">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have always enjoyed mystery and crime novels, but I can't say I'm an avid fan of either genre.  I've read a fair amount of Sherlock Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe as well as some Victorian Gothic fiction.  I've read some Agatha Christie and other early/mid-20th century mystery/crime novels.  I'd paid att...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70040416">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best.  Or certainly close.  Crime fiction doesn't really age well, and it's not really my favorite genre, but there is some great stuff here.  I can see why Hammett is considered such a seminal writer, because all of the key elements of the hard-boiled detective ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37903386">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Holy hell this is aptly titled. Booze (in every chapter), a hard-boiled detective (likewise, of course) and lots and lots of death (damn near). At one point he uses laudanum as the mixer for his gin because the whole thing is just that brutal.<br/><br/>Love it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brutal, tough, selfish.  Hard as steel, it feels like he could give barely a damn about you the reader, but takes you along for a dimply lit adventure in a company town haunted by guilt, fear, and the subhuman.  Loved it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ya got to love Hammett's use of language.  Every sentence is crisp and stark, even when he uses slang.  The story was a bit violent for my taste but at least it is short!  <br/><br/>My S.O. is a huge Kurosawa fan so after I finished the novel we watched Yojimbo which is based on this novel.  He ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53578316">more...</a>]]></body>
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