- Taschenbuch: 208 Seiten
- Verlag: Penguin; Auflage: New Ed (6. Juli 2006)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0140108971
- ISBN-13: 978-0140108972
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,2 x 12,8 x 1,4 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)
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Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he's one of the 20th century's top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard's signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price.
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"Raymond Chandler is a master." --"The New York Times
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"[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered." --"The New Yorker
"Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious." --Robert B. Parker, "The New York Times Book Review
"Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye." --"Los Angeles Times
"Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist." --"The Boston Book Review
"Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler's prose. . . . He wrote like an angel." --"Literary Review
"[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision." --Joyce Carol Oates, "The New York Review of Books
"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." --Ross Macdonald
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"Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude." --Erle Stanley Gardner
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"Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since." --Paul Auster
"[Chandler]'s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that's like ours, but isn't." --Carolyn See
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"[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered." --"The New Yorker
"Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious." --Robert B. Parker, "The New York Times Book Review
"Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye." --"Los Angeles Times
"Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist." --"The Boston Book Review
"Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler's prose. . . . He wrote like an angel." --"Literary Review
"[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision." --Joyce Carol Oates, "The New York Review of Books
"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." --Ross Macdonald
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"Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude." --Erle Stanley Gardner
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"Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since." --Paul Auster
"[Chandler]'s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that's like ours, but isn't." --Carolyn See
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The voice on the telephone seemed to be sharp and peremptory, but I didn't hear too well what it said -partly because I was only half-awake and partly because I was holding the receiver upside down. Lesen Sie die erste Seite Ausgewählte Seiten ansehen
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"Playback" sure is a rather disappointing last Marlowe novel in that it doesn't pack most of the excitement of its predecessors. It's not set in LA but Esmeralda, and this time Chandler's characters all feel a little too cliché. As a fellow reviewer remarked, it feels like Chandler was just going through the motions.
Nonetheless, "Playback" has a few things going for it - first and foremost, it still is Chandler and Marlowe. Marlowe is still the same character the reader of Chandler has come to love, even though I felt that his memories of and feelings for Linda felt a little out of place. But maybe that's just Marlowe getting old and lonesome; it fits the character if you think about it. Also, it's a pretty short read, so you'd only lose one or two evenings in the company of your trusted PI - I've had evenings far worse than that.
If you love Chandler, don't hesitate and buy this book, if just for the sake of completeness. It's not as good as the rest of the Marlowe mysteries, but it still is Chandler. And by that, it still is better than most.
Nonetheless, "Playback" has a few things going for it - first and foremost, it still is Chandler and Marlowe. Marlowe is still the same character the reader of Chandler has come to love, even though I felt that his memories of and feelings for Linda felt a little out of place. But maybe that's just Marlowe getting old and lonesome; it fits the character if you think about it. Also, it's a pretty short read, so you'd only lose one or two evenings in the company of your trusted PI - I've had evenings far worse than that.
If you love Chandler, don't hesitate and buy this book, if just for the sake of completeness. It's not as good as the rest of the Marlowe mysteries, but it still is Chandler. And by that, it still is better than most.
Format:Taschenbuch
The setting--a coastal town called Esmerelda--is well-evoked. The observations are clever and occasionally poignant. And the mystery surrounding Miss Betty Mayfield shows real promise. However, this time out the characters are familiar and too genteel, the revelations are unconvincing, and the whole thing feels tired, as if Chandler were simply going through the motions. A flat note on which to end a career.
Format:Taschenbuch
Last novel of Chandler, and Philip Marlowe. On the surface is a classic detective story.But you may be faced with a couple of deep reflexions; about solitude and the individual. About existence.Surprisingly bitter. I find it close to Sartre's The Nausea. Perhaps also to T.S Eliot, The Wasteland.
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Nice detective story.
This was Chandler's first book that I read and I really enjoyed it. Philip Marlowe's in this book is like in the other's a great detective. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. September 1999 veröffentlicht
The Evolution of the Modern Tough Guy Detective is complete
From Hammett to Chandler we see the beginning of the modern day tough guy detective. In this novel, Chandler's raging cynic, Phillip Marlowe, completes the cycle which began in... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
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