Platoeatssouls's review
The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback (Everyman's Library (Alfred a. Knopf, Inc.).)
by Raymond Chandler
Platoeatssouls's review
The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback (Everyman's Library (Alfred a. Knopf, Inc.).) by Raymond Chandler
Platoeatssouls's review
rating:
bookshelves:
mystery,
theboxmarkeddone
recommended 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 of him comes in bits and pieces: he's in his late thirties, not bad looking, plays chess, speaks Spanish, and smokes and drinks. He likes coffee in the morning, sandwiches for lunch, and blondes for dinner, and he works by his own moral code which makes seducing someone else's wife all right, but taking money for the wrong sort of case uncool. And did I mention he's funny?
The novels here are hardboiled noir in the sense of "no innocents, only suspects", but there's actually ...more
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 of him comes in bits and pieces: he's in his late thirties, not bad looking, plays chess, speaks Spanish, and smokes and drinks. He likes coffee in the morning, sandwiches for lunch, and blondes for dinner, and he works by his own moral code which makes seducing someone else's wife all right, but taking money for the wrong sort of case uncool. And did I mention he's funny?
The novels here are hardboiled noir in the sense of "no innocents, only suspects", but there's actually ...more
