

S'està carregant… La gran dormida (1939)de Raymond Chandler
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» 71 més Noir Fiction (1) Favourite Books (190) 1930s (7) Books Read in 2014 (70) A Novel Cure (88) Books Read in 2017 (311) Page Turners (11) Cerebral Mysteries (17) Top Five Books of 2015 (238) Top Five Books of 2017 (230) Top Five Books of 2014 (693) Top Five Books of 2016 (509) 1,001 BYMRBYD Concensus (118) SHOULD Read Books! (18) Fiction For Men (14) Read (48) Urban Fiction (31) Folio Society (675) Read These Too (42) MysteryCAT 2014 (6) First Novels (71) My TBR (28) Protagonists - Men (23) Read (26) Books About Murder (124) Noir (1) Murder Mysteries (4) Los Angeles (1) Detective Stories (84) Five star books (1,029) Unread books (886) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I thought the story was good, but I will never be a fan of the style of dialogue. All of the men talk like they are a tough guy and the women mostly sound clueless. So I haven't become one of the legion of Philip Marlowe fans. ( ![]() The book that made trenchcoat detectives classy. Though some of the slang is a little obscure, the quality of Chandler's writing makes his novels timeless classics. Often imitated, never bettered. I'm reading some Stout, some Hammett, and some Chandler all close together, and it's interesting to note the comparisons. Hammett is more minimal, short on ornate physical descriptions of things. Chandler by contrast attends more to how environments are presented; he embroiders the scene a bit more. Stout lies somewhere in the middle and is a little more overtly funny or witty (beyond the wisecracks all three sprinkle throughout their books). This was a fine, quick read. I enjoyed it but wasn't affected by it. A gritty, hard-boiled detective story. This book is, in my mind, the anthesis to the "cozy mystery". The prose is terse, the imagery vivid, dark, and often bleak. For example... "A nasty building. A building in which the smell of stale cigar butts would be the cleanest odor." Some of the descriptions are from the time period, so they seem dated to us but are in keeping with the time and enrich the experience for me. e.g. "A Chicago overcoat" was a coffin. Chandler defined the hard-boiled detective with his creation of the character, Philip Marlowe. A man, not easily likeable, but a man with his own code of ethics that he adheres to no matter the cost. Elliot Gould is a good narrator for this story.
Novela repleta de nervio y de ingeniosos diálogos. Es un caso de chantaje el que lleva a Marlowe a asomarse a las alcantarillas de una sociedad en apariencia espléndida. Pertany a aquestes sèriesPhilip Marlowe (1) Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsDelfinserien (91) detebe (70/I) El País. Serie negra (46) — 14 més Penguin Books (652) SaPo (74) Den svarte serie (175) Universale Economica Feltrinelli (Noir, 8330) Vampiro (213) Zephyr Books (148) Contingut aRaymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Library of America) de Raymond Chandler Raymond Chandler: The Library of America Edition de Raymond Chandler (indirecte) A Treasury of Great Mysteries de Howard Haycraft (indirecte) The big sleep/Farewell my lovely/The high window/The lady in the lake/The long goodbye/Playback de Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window / The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback de Raymond Chandler Five Novels: Finger Man; The big sleep; Farewell my loveley; High window; The lady in the lake de Raymond Chandler Murder & Mayhem: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories; The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window; The Human Factor; (Everyman's Library) de James M. Cain "Vechnyi son". "Prokrutka". "Nepriiatnosti - moe remeslo". "Chelovek, kotoryi liubil sobak". "Krovavyi veter". "Ispanskaia krov' ". "Prostoe iskusstvo ubiistva" de Chandler Reimond Té la seqüela (sense pertànyer a cap sèrie)Té l'adaptacióEstà ampliat aHa inspirat
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