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"His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock." Published in 1939, when Raymond Chandler was 50, this is the first of the Philip Marlowe novels. Its bursts of sex, violence, and explosively direct prose changed detective fiction forever. "She was trouble. She was tall and rangy and strong-looking. Her hair was black and wiry and parted in the middle. She had a good mouth and a good chin. There was a sulky droop to her lips and the lower lip was full."
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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.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A work so complex that even the author didn't know exactly who did what to whom and why may sound confusing to your average reader of mystery stories--especially one who wants the plot resolved neatly and tidily. Yet Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep pulls it off remarkably. A lesser writer never would have succeeded, however, Chandler's prose is so captivating, and Philip Marlowe is such a an endearing scoundrel, that it is easy to over-look such trivialities as plot. Although he was an obsessive, Chandler never was one for neat and tidy plots. In fact, as he even admitted, he wasn't much for plots at all. In this book, considered by many to be his finest, he achieves his highest unity of dialogue, plot and characterization. Philip Marlowe seems to skulk across the page in a glancing fashion (and if that makes sense to you, you HAVE been reading too much Chandler). Wry, self-depracating, witty, and unfathomably intelligent, he becomes the shop worn galahad, the original noir detective. If at times the lines seem a bit cliched, the film noir quality painted on a bit thick, the reader must keep in mind, this is where it came from first. Without Raymond Chandler, there would have been no Blade Runner. As both a linguist and a writer, I am infinitely in love with both Chandler's work and Philip Marlowe. There is an intelligence in this prose that is rarely found anywhere, let alone detective fiction. And his similes and metaphors are simply the best anyone has ever written. I read my first Chandler while working on an honors research project as an undergrad and was so captivated I read all of his stuff straight through. If you only have time to read one or two of his works, start here and then read Farewell My lovely, but I gaurantee, anyone who loves words and the American Language won't be able to stop there.
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Chandler, as a writer, wrote the best novels about L.A. There have been a few, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Day of the Locust. But his four books written between 1939 to 1943 are the best. What makes his books so good? The answer is contain in a single word: style. Chandler's prose has what he said Dashiel Hammett's lacks---overtones, echoes, images. It is also a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control of a great pitcher has over the ball. Chandler wrote with classical dispassion of a romantic and violent society. He had the gift of tongue; he was a poet. Metaphors flowered from him in language utterly suited to the exotic people and places. The inhabitants are all there to life---garage men, room clerks, carhops, grifters, grafters, and house dicks. Marlowe's world cannot be touch by time.
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In "The Big Sleep," Raymond Chandler has given fans of pulp detective fiction a near-perfect example of the genre. The 1939 novel follows Chandler's hangdog detective, Phillip Marlowe, as he enters a winding maze of sinister characters, beautiful women, and dead bodies that turn up in all the wrong places. What begins as a simple blackmail case becomes a web of deceit and murder, as the nigh-unflappable Marlowe becomes mixed up with an elderly millionaire, his missing son-in-law, his two dangerous daughters, and a vicious killer in a brown suit.
Marlowe is one of the great characters of twentieth century popular fiction, possessed of a surprising wit, world-weary persistence, and an unbending code of honor. His dreamlike Los Angeles is populated with characters who seem to have stepped out of a Edward Hopper painting: isolated, hardbitten souls who speak in rough-hewn poetry.
Chandler plays fast and loose with the truth, keeping the reader guessing at every turn. Like Shakespeare, he has a knack for creating oddly simple metaphors whose beauty is startling: "The light hit pencils of rain and made silver wires of them." "The Big Sleep" is a supremely entertaining read, a mystery that plumbs the dark and lonely corners of the human soul and emerges with no easy answers.
Marlowe is one of the great characters of twentieth century popular fiction, possessed of a surprising wit, world-weary persistence, and an unbending code of honor. His dreamlike Los Angeles is populated with characters who seem to have stepped out of a Edward Hopper painting: isolated, hardbitten souls who speak in rough-hewn poetry.
Chandler plays fast and loose with the truth, keeping the reader guessing at every turn. Like Shakespeare, he has a knack for creating oddly simple metaphors whose beauty is startling: "The light hit pencils of rain and made silver wires of them." "The Big Sleep" is a supremely entertaining read, a mystery that plumbs the dark and lonely corners of the human soul and emerges with no easy answers.
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I would truly recommend this book to everyone who likes crime fiction . It is very well written and I really enjoyed reading it . Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. April 2009 von TBSdennis
Ein absoluter Krimi-Klassiker
Privatdetektiv Philip Marlowe wurde zum Prototyp zahlreicher Krimihelden und ist doch einzigartig geblieben. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. April 2009 von Friya
A rollercoaster ride of a plot
"The Big Sleep" opens with private eye Philip Marlowe being summoned to the expansive estate of the aged and wealthy General Sternwood. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. Juni 2000 von A.J.
An American Classic
Witty, poetic and and superbly paced, The Big Sleep is the best book I have ever come across in the crime-fiction genre. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Juni 2000 von Sully
Raymond Chandler's works is timeless
"I smashed the window, and jumped in. There where two people sitting in the room, but none of them noticed my crude entrance, and I found that very weird since only one of the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Mai 2000 von Simon Lund Larsen
Creating A Template
It's often been said that Raymond Chandler is the quintessential writer about Los Angeles in the 1940's in the way that Faulkner fictionalized the American South. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Mai 2000 von Daniel Friedman
The tree is dead, but the ornaments are fantastic...
Most people pick up this book knowing its prominent place in the lineage of crime fiction. I fell into this group, so I was expecting great things. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. April 2000 von thegoodmonty
The epitome of noir crime fiction
One of the more downtrodden areas of literary fiction is crime stories - whether as detective stories or as thrillers. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Januar 2000 von Kelly Whiting
VINTAGE CRIME FICTION DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER
'Nuff said. Raymond Chandler was at the top of his form (in my opinion) when he penned this tale. While the Phillip Marlowe tales that followed were wonderfully exquisite as... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Dezember 1999 von Edward Lee
Excellent Introduction to Chandler
After seeing a revival of the film based on this book, I was so impressed I decided to check out the original. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. September 1999 veröffentlicht
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