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This was an interesting experience, and I must admit that I enjoyed the Bogart & Bacall movie much more than the book. (It was fine-tuned by William Faulkner and Leigh Brackett, after all)
The early chapters are a bit stilted and forced, but with an almost too-snappy dialogue identical to the movie.
20% ... After a while, Chandler loosens up a bit, and begins to shine. Great stuff now.
Wow, I am witnessing Chandler find his true voi ...more
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This was an interesting experience, and I must admit that I enjoyed the Bogart & Bacall movie much more than the book. (It was fine-tuned by William Faulkner and Leigh Brackett, after all)
The early chapters are a bit stilted and forced, but with an almost too-snappy dialogue identical to the movie.
20% ... After a while, Chandler loosens up a bit, and begins to shine. Great stuff now.
Wow, I am witnessing Chandler find his true voi ...more
Here Comes Marlowe
Chandler's The Big Sleep was his first published novel and gave us Philip Marlowe, everyone's favorite Hardboiled private eye. Marlowe, who is also portrayed so well by Bogart in the movie of the same name, is a moody, taciturn private eye with his own sense of right and wrong. Setting the stage for future novels, he finds himself protecting a crazy rich family and finding that the denizens behind the high walls and locked gates are up to their eyeballs in gambling, blackmail, ...more
Chandler's The Big Sleep was his first published novel and gave us Philip Marlowe, everyone's favorite Hardboiled private eye. Marlowe, who is also portrayed so well by Bogart in the movie of the same name, is a moody, taciturn private eye with his own sense of right and wrong. Setting the stage for future novels, he finds himself protecting a crazy rich family and finding that the denizens behind the high walls and locked gates are up to their eyeballs in gambling, blackmail, ...more
"It was about ten-thirty in the morning when the little yellow-sashed Mexican orchestra got tired of playing a low-voiced prettied-up rhumba that nobody was dancing to."
This is probably my favourite book, Raymond Chandler certainly my favourite author. Recently, belatedly discovering James Crumley sent me back here. It has been a few years since I read the Marlowe novels, and I intend to read them all again. Chandler took what other "hard-boiled' pulp storytellers, particularly Dashiell Hamnett, ...more
This is probably my favourite book, Raymond Chandler certainly my favourite author. Recently, belatedly discovering James Crumley sent me back here. It has been a few years since I read the Marlowe novels, and I intend to read them all again. Chandler took what other "hard-boiled' pulp storytellers, particularly Dashiell Hamnett, ...more
Ah, the wonderful Raymond Chandler.
'The Big Sleep' (a euphemism for Death), is the first "Philip Marlowe" novel written by Chandler, featuring the wise cracking Phillip Marlowe.
Chandler's style has often been copied & more often than not, butchered, by would-be, wanna-be contenders, in the 70+ years since Chandler penned his wonderful Marlowe novels. Chandler writes with witty, sardonic & beautiful prose. I love how Chandler has Marlowe describe everything he comes across in such minute detai ...more
'The Big Sleep' (a euphemism for Death), is the first "Philip Marlowe" novel written by Chandler, featuring the wise cracking Phillip Marlowe.
Chandler's style has often been copied & more often than not, butchered, by would-be, wanna-be contenders, in the 70+ years since Chandler penned his wonderful Marlowe novels. Chandler writes with witty, sardonic & beautiful prose. I love how Chandler has Marlowe describe everything he comes across in such minute detai ...more
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