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PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away...
Loved Chandler's stuff... Mr. Simile was real slick in his day.
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“As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style."
“Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead."
I am having a great time discovering Chandler. It is just great entertainment value. ...more
“Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead."
I am having a great time discovering Chandler. It is just great entertainment value. ...more
Dear God. Did you know you could get cooler just from listening to an audio book? Elliot Gould, man, you gots da skillz. Listening to this for an hour or so each morning before work is DEFINITELY making my days... more interesting.
“I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights.” ...more
“I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights.” ...more
I listened to this version which was narrated by Elliot Gould. I could not ask for a better narrator. His reading of the book gave the perfect voice for Philip Marlowe. The story centers around the Sternwood family - an aging and ailing father and his two adult daughters, one is being blackmailed. The body count mounts as Marlowe follows the clues. Sometimes the murder happens in Marlowe's presence. As rough as Marlowe seems to be, he does have integrity to the very end.
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Chandler weaves a twisting tale of deception and mystery that still enraptures despite being written more than 70 years ago. Cleverly hidden beneath the noir-voice lie deeper themes and social commentary. Excellent (and quite different from the movie).
I love all of Chandler's books, but The Big Sleep is my favorite.
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Chandler can do more with a seven-word sentence than most authors can do with seven chapters - his stripped, spare prose makes those metaphors he does use sink into you like a bullet.
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