The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

Posted on 15 June 2017 by Raymond Chandler

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.He is the hero he is everything He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay The Simple Act of Murder Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler s first novel, The Big Sleep This work established Chandler as the master of the hard boiled detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual Marlowe subsequently appeared in a series of extremely popular novels, among them The Lady in the Lake, The Long Goodbye, and Farewell, My Lovely Elizabeth Diefendorf, editor, The New York Public Library s Books of the Century, p 112.Selected as one of Time Magazine s All Time 100 Novels, with the following review I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn t care who knew it I was everything the well dressed private detective ought to be This sentence, from the first paragraph of The Big Sleep, marks the last time you can be fully confident that you know what s going on The first novel by Raymond Chandler at the age of 51. Download The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) By Raymond Chandler – kino-fada.fr She was the first thing I saw when I walked into the bookstore Such a looker I damn near tripped over a stack of calf high hardbacks set next to a stand of morning papers I m sorry, she said We re not quite open yet That s okay, I told her Neither are my eyes I could tell right away I wasn t going to win any hosannas by being a smart aleck I need a book, I continued by way of apology Something fun but dark I m looking at five hundred miles today, but I m not in the mood for She was the first thing I saw when I walked into the bookstore Such a looker I damn near tripped over a stack of calf high hardbacks set next to a stand of morning papers I m sorry, she said We re not quite open yet That s okay, I told her Neither are my eyes I could tell right away I wasn t going to win any hosannas by being a smart aleck I need a book, I continued by way of apology Something fun but dark I m looking at five hundred miles today, but I m not in the mood for an epic Noir, maybe It takes a lot of plot to get through Tennessee She went to the shelves and started looking at the books I was looking at...It is always a pleasure to revisit a good book and find it even better than you remember But it is humbling to discover that what you once thought was its most obvious defect is instead one of its great strengths That was my recent experience with Raymond Chandler s The Big Sleep.I had read it twice before once twenty years, once forty years ago and have admired it ever since for its striking metaphors, vivid scenes, and tough dialogue Above all, I love it for its hero, Philip Marlowe, the cl It is always a pleasure to revisit a good book and find it even better than you remember But it is humbling to discover that what you once thought was its most obvious defect is instead one of its great strengths That was my recent experience with Raymond Chandler s The Big Sleep.I had read it twice before once twenty years, once forty years ago and have admired it ever since for its striking metaphors...A killing reading PAINT IT BLACK A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. That was the line that hook me when I watched the classic film adaptation, the one produced in 1946, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.While I loved the whole movie, that scene between Marlowe Bogart and the character of General Sternwood Charles Waldron at the glasshouse in the beginning of the story was what hooked me It s a wonderful dialogue, full of vices, smoking and d A killing reading PAINT IT BLACK A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. That was the line that hook me when I watched the classic film adaptation, the one produced in 1946, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.While I loved the whole movie, that scene between Marlowe Bogart and the character of General Sternwood Charles Waldron at the glasshouse in the beginning of the story was what hooked me It s a wonderful dialogue, full of vices, smoking and drinking, and while I don t smoke and I seldom drink alcohol in parties, I am not prude and I think that type of characters look cool while smoking and drinking Maybe because I think new millenium society has become too sanctimonious about the topics I know that they aren t healthy conducts, but look at me, I like to watch characters doing both things and I don t do them on my own.Funny thing that if some character uses a gun and kills some other...Raymond Chandler first published The Big Sleep in 1939, introducing us to the world of Philip Marlowe A modern, noir like detective story, The Big Sleep changed the genre from passive interactions to action packed thrills between the private eye and criminals Set in 1930s Los Angeles, then a sleepy town co...The 2011 2012 re readA paralyzed millionaire, General Sternwood, hires Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe to have a talk with a blackmailer with his hooks in his daughter But what does his daughter s missing husband, Rusty Regan, have to do with it Marlowe s case will get him entangled in a web of pornography and gambling from which he may never escapeFor the last few years, me and noir detective fiction have gone together as well as strippers and c section scars When the Pulp Ficti The 2011 2012 re readA paralyzed millionaire, General Sternwood, hires Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe to have a talk with a blackmailer with his hooks in his daughter But what does his daughter s missing husband, Rusty Regan, have to do with it Marlowe s case will get him entangled in a web of pornography and gambling from which he may never escapeFor the last few year...Review updated on February 26, 2016A group read with the following people Erin, Dan 2.0, Steve, Delee Please let me know if I missed somebody A crippled millionaire with rapidly failing health hires Philip Marlowe to investigate seemingly simple blackmail case involving one of his daughters The cynical PI charges only 25 a day plus expenses For this money he got shot at several times, was knocked out by a blow in his head, met quite a few dead people and helped some of them meet their early Review updated on February 26, 2016A group read with the following people Erin, Dan 2.0, Steve, Delee Please let me know if I missed somebody A crippled millionaire with rapidly failing health hires Philip Marlowe to investigate seemingly simple blackmail case involving one of his daughters The cynical PI charges only 25 a day plus expenses For this money he got shot at several times, was knocked out by a blow in his head, met quite a few dead people and helped some of them meet their early demise directly and indirectly I would say he got a lot of excitement for a very low price I really need to say a couple of words about Raymond Chandler The guy took simple mindless entertainment called noir and made it ...This is a classic noir novel, yet what elevates it above the ordinary, for me, is that it s also a song about Los Angeles, a place I once called home LA presents many surfaces for many people to see and be seen, to fantasize and be the objects of fantasy But Chandler gets at the dark underside of it all in a way that few writers do He sees the city in its stark white light and also in its shadows, he sees the glory and the rottenness and the flimsiness of the city s facades It s a love song This is a clas...There s a story regarding the movie version of The Big Sleep that I love, and if it isn t true, it should be Supposedly, while working on adapting the book the screenwriters William Faulkner Leigh Brackett couldn t figure out who killed one of the characters So they called Raymond Chandler, and after thinking about it fo...UNO CHE LAVA LA BIANCHERIA SPORCA DEGLI ALTRIQuesto un libro che ho letto molti anni fa, nel periodo in cui iniziavo a realizzare un sogno coltivato a lungo.Un buon motivo per tenerlo nel cuore.Ma, certo, non l unico ancora prima del ricordo, conta che sia bello e prezioso A suo modo, un autentico capolavoro.Eterni e indimenticabili, Humphrey Bogart e Lauren BacallNoir In versione hard boiled Introduce Philip Marlowe, l archetipo del detective privato, il prototipo del private eye Marlo UNO CHE LAVA LA BIANCHERIA SPORCA DEGLI ALTRIQue...Okay, so it wasn t bad There s lots of fistfights and shooting and dames, and our detective hero is appropriately jaded and tight lipped The bad guys are crazy, the women are freaks in both the streets and the sheets, and there s a subplot involving a pornography racket Everyone talks in 30 s tastic slang and usually the reader has no idea what everyone keeps yelling about It s a violent, fast paced, garter snapping the Depression equivalent of bodice ripping, I imagine detective thriller, Okay, so it wasn t bad There s lots of fistfights and shooting and dames, and our detective hero is appropriately jaded and tight lipped The bad guys are crazy, the women are freaks in both the streets and the sheets, and there s a subplot involving a pornography racket Everyone talks in 30 s tastic slang and usually the reader has no idea what everyone keeps yelling about It s a violent, fast paced, garter snapping the Depression equivalent of bodice ripping, I imagine detective thriller, and you could do a lot worse Chandler, like his contemporary Dashiel Hammett, has a gift for gorgeous description and atmosphere, and uses it well But I just ca...

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15 June 2017

Raymond Chandler