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 ch...
Will someone please purge Peter Falk's voice from my head? I swear the man learned how to speak by having this book read to him as a child.Again, shame on me for not having read yet another American classic. I've always been a fan of noir in movies or on television, but had not read much at all, unt...
What style! Holy Moses! Chandler writes with a purpose: to put you right in the shit. In The Big Sleep he writes with the economy of biting words that surrounds Philip Marlowe, a detective whose seen the hardbitten world, with the street's lexicon. Hardboiled? Certainly. But I've read some hardboile...
“The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler is about a private detective who gets caught up in the sordid affairs of a wealthy family involving blackmail, pornography, seduction and murder.After struggling through "The Big sleep", I can safely say that Chandler is all about the atmosphere and that he tries ...
Interesting classic featuring private eye, Philip Marlowe. Great narration by Eliot Gould. The language used is very sterotypical old-fashioned gum shoe type language (women are all broads, etc.). At first I found this to be a light amusing read, but there is so much stereotyping (women, homosexu...
I had to give up on this book halfway through. Nothing wrong with it, it was more that I couldn't really get into the story. I'll probably come back to this at some stage, at a time when I'm not quite so sleep deprived.
It was possibly because I was in a rather sorry state when I started reading Big Sleep, but I found myself having to go back & forth, re-reading the sentences to understand the story at the beginning. It was better afterwards (maybe I was not so sleepy). As a detective story it's rather good, though...
I just couldn't get into The Big Sleep, and I'm quitting the book about half way through. The only thing that I liked about this book is the fantastic metaphors and descriptive language--there is no problem visualizing the scenes that [a:Raymond Chandler|1377|Raymond Chandler|http://d.gr-assets.com...
The Big Sleep was a splendid foundational example of its genre. Sometimes when I read books that defined a genre long ago, I have to keep reminding myself that the book isn't cliche, it invented the cliche. In the case of The Big Sleep I never once felt like anything was cliche- a foundation for t...
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