Tasks for Pancha Ganapati: Post about your 5 favourite books this year and why you appreciated them so much. Tasks for Festivus: [...] --OR-- Perform the Airing of Grievances: name 5 books you’ve read this year that have disappointed you - tell us in tongue-lashing detail why and how they failed t...
My Square Markers and "Virgin" Bingo Card: "Virgin" card posted for ease of tracking and comparison, as called and read squares will, bit by bit, vanish behind my markers and everybody's cards are different. Black Kitty:Read but not called Black Vignette:Called but not read Black Kitty in Black ...
I bet this is one door Marlowe is regretting to put his head through. Getting involved with Moose Malloy, who is searching for his girlfriend Velma after having spent the last 8 years in jail, Marlowe gets involved with the mob, jewel-robbers, dangerous thugs and the police and he has to deal with a...
I like Chandler but I don't love Chandler. Chandler is rightfully most compared to Hammett, but unlike Hammett who has deep things to say, Chandler is all style. I don't think that Chandler is anything more than magnificently written pulp detective fiction, although there is no doubt that it is th...
I couldn't give it more than 3 stars because of the overwhelming amount of sexism, racism and homophobia. I know this book was written in the 40's, and it was a different kind of society then (I actually have the impression that, for the time, this was a surprisingly forward book on those counts), b...
Smarter people than I might be able to poke holes in this one, but I can't. 5 stars, and this one goes on the Deserted Island list. Quite possibly a perfect novel--the descriptions, the dialog, the plot, and the twist, all wrapped up in a cynical, brilliant package. The best I've read in a very, ver...
“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance. I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.”While working a missing persons case, Detective Philip Marlowe finds himself drawn into a murder investigation....
Marlowe, sexuality, and mean streets ~~Moved from GR~~ Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler Like the other Marlowe books, Farewell, My Lovely helped to shape a genre that still pervades American culture. This one has the template for the PI-female-journalist-type teamup, the lazy cop who gets...
Excellent writing. Chandler had a gift for describing a scene and putting you right there, using very poetic language that was occasionally corny but still good except when it's great. I like how he's able to stretch a simple scene, like two guys driving down the street having a conversation, into a...
bookshelves: fraudio, mystery-thriller, published-1940, north-americas, re-read, winter-20102011 Read from December 09, 2009 to February 21, 2011 ** spoiler alert ** Saturday Play - Classic Chandler: 3. Farewell My Lovely. Toby Stephens is Chandler's smart-talking, trouble-seeking LA private eye...
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