It was a warm day, almost the end of March, and I stood outside the barbershop looking up at the jutting neon sign of a second floor dine and dice emporium called Florian's. A man was looking up at the sign too. He was looking up at the dusty windows with a sort of ecstatic fixity of expression, lik...
There's this skirt, see and she's got these jewels that would make a rich man cry. There's been a murder in a dive and the heat is on the trail of cheap hood who's bumped off the manager while looking for his dame Velma Valento. While on the trail of the bird, Marlowe is called by a sucker who i...
I liked Farewell, My Lovely more than The Big Sleep. The plot was unpredictable as usual, and I like how Chandler doesn't weave everything together until the end. Leaves me guessing wildly as to how it will all turn out. However, the plot was still a bit confusing, though I didn't have the same diff...
Given how many thousands of times Chandler's style has been parodied, I was worried that I might not get much out of the original. But his prose just has such a lovely, muscular rhythm that I find myself breaking into a grin every few pages. Beware imitations – the real article can't be bettered:I n...
A classic pulp-fiction detective novel. The stuff of Guy Noire...or Bogie. I'm sure other reviewers can give you a better sense than I as to story line. This is the second of Raymond Chandler's novels about the private eye named Philip Marlowe. It seems that Marlowe is a wise-ass who is always stick...
Not for today's sensibilities and I'm not sure if it in any way reflects any sensibilities of the past, simply Chandler's. I was surprised to find it VERY VERY entertaining and will likely read some more Chandler in the future.A few excerpts to illustrate the dead-blunt noir style:She slapped my wr...
- Ach! fit la voix d'un ton de regret. C'est impossible. Semaine prochaine, peut-être. Je recarde le lifre.- Écoutez, laissez donc le lifre. Fous afez le grayon?- Si. J'ai le numéro de déléphone. Monsieur Marriott - il est malate?- Eh ben, on ne peut pas dire qu'il soit en train de s'envoyer en l'ai...
Hooked on Raymond Chandler and reading his books from beginning to end. Won't be long before I'm finished since he only wrote seven. And just love his connect or rather Robert B. Parker's connection to Chandler. Apparently they met and Parker said (I read somewhere) that he missed Chandler's char...
Like with most books that I buy, this had been collecting dust on my shelf for quite sometime. I have already read and been impressed by The Big Sleep, and I don't like abandoning a series, so I just had to read this next installment. The small review on the back really sings the book's praises and ...
Even though the plot felt familiar thanks to my reading so many of his pulp stories, Chandler has more than enough ability to keep me interested. Boy, wouldn't he be proud. 'The Big Sleep' felt too familiar even with the breathing space allowed in a novel, but 'Farewell, My Lovely' approaches the he...
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