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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

Raymond Chandler

Start date: June 1, 2013

Finish date: August 31, 2013

Why we're reading this: Group Reads choice in the category Mysteries set in the Western US for Summer 2013
[close] Group Reads choice in the category Mysteries set in the Western US for Summer 2013

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May 19, 2013 Barbara ★ rated it it was ok

Shelves: challenge-books, read-2013, x-set-in-usa-california, zzz-cover-body-part, mystery-fbi-pi-cop, zz-cover-black

I am definitely in the minority on this one. I greatly disliked it. I was born in the 60s so nothing about this book made any sense to me. I felt the dialogue was stilted and the mystery was flat and convoluted. Too many characters and I couldn't figure out whose allegiance was with which shady character. The mystery of the blackmailer was solved early on and the rest of the book seemed to be a waste of time. I found that I just didn't care what happened to Rusty (sounded like good riddance to m ...more

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