Although this book was in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories, I decided to enter it as a book because in every aspect, it is indeed a book and is counted as one of the five books written by Dashiell Hammett, along with numerous short stories. The book I read was the serialized version,...
I really enjoy Hammett and feel that he is far superior to his closest alternative Chandler who is all style and no substance. The story, like the works of Fleming, is really all about the subtext.What makes this book great is the last 40 or 50 pages. Hammett has something to say about the human c...
I guess I did enjoy reading it, but all along I kept on feeling that this book is ridiculous. The kind of ridiculousness I expect from a movie. Probably not the right timing for me to read vintage detective, though it made me wants to read fforde again.
2012 re-read...Sam Spade's partner is murdered and Sam is determined to find his killer. But what does Miles Archer's murder have to do with the client he was working for or the mysterious Maltese Falcon?What can I say about one of the Big Two pulp detective novels, the other being The Big Sleep? ...
Here we go. Book number two in my 25 crime-fiction classic list! After finishing this, I probably should've started with this one but honestly, who's going to blame me for reading a Raymond Chandler novel first?Sam Spade and Miles Archer, private eye's residing in San Fransisco, are hired by a wom...
Oh, I liked this audio production of The Maltese Falcon! I love those old-time radio shows with the manly-man private eye, the beautiful (but dangerous) dame, and that hard-boiled film noir attitude. This production was just dripping with all of that, and I was completely captivated by it. It was...
Ah, this book is a blast. It's so, like...you go in expecting a hard-boiled detective, all that stuff you heard about, and it totally delivers. Sam Spade is everything you want him to be. And so is the femme fatale. Just glorious shit.One thing: Maltese Falcon catches flack for being homophobic: Cai...
Knowing that The Maltese Falcon is a bit of a classic in the noir genre, I wanted to give it a read. Perhaps this novel was good back when it was written, but I don't think it works today. Sam Spade is chauvanistic and almost comical at times. His language makes him a caricature. Mostly it was hard ...
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