Farewell, My Lovely (Phillip Marlowe)

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While assisting the cops in hunting him down, Marlowe backs off the case when he realizes he won’t be paid for his efforts.

However, Bogart only played Marlowe in the film adaptation of the first book in the series, The Big Sleep. He has a range of awareness that startles you, but it belongs to him by right, because it belongs to the world he lives in. Marlowe meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help.If possible the plot/story-line of Farewell, My Lovely is even more convoluted than its predecessor, The Big Sleep. A great quote about Hemingway in the novel , about always repeating himself so much that you tend to believe eventually! Un autore amato come dimostrano commenti e votazioni dei lettori ma probabilmente non è il genere di lettura che mi manda in estasi. But whereas Hammett’s Spade is all slick, smoky quips and cat-like grace, Marlowe is the “other side of the tracks” version.

Well, one thing leads to another and Malloy drags Marlowe up the stairs and begins demanding answers from the people in the bar who, not surprisingly, have never heard of Velma. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. and there’s a chapter where marlowe gets drugged and stumbles around trying to get a grip on things, that might be the funniest thing you’ll read all year. The big man turned him in the air and slid his gaudy shoes apart on the scaly linoleum that covered the floor. However, as Chandler adapted and integrated the stories—which were originally written completely independently—he cared more about the style of writing and the characters than about making sure every plot point fit together with consistency and lucidity.

This book is absolutely soaking in quotables and may have the best prose of any noir I’ve ever read.

But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. There is a long sequence at the docks, on the water and in a ship offshore, that just plod along; no forward motion to the plot, no incentive to stay up late reading more. Encountering a behemoth of an ex-con, Moose Malloy, on the street, Marlowe follows the big man into a bar and witnesses a murder. The Big Sleep may be one of the greatest crime novels ever written, and it's an impossible act to follow, even for Raymond Chandler. Extremities slightly rubbed, faint offsetting to endpapers, couple of tiny marks to rear cover, subsequent spots offset to jacket verso, contents clean.

Those descriptions materialized in front of me more than pages of less polished prose could accomplish. He talks as the man of his age talks—that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness. I'm watching the 1975 version with Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, Sylvia Miles, the late and wonderful Harry Dean Stanton and (surprise!

Florian's house and discovers that Marriott held a trust deed on it, meaning he could foreclose on her at will. It will haul you through the warren that is Los Angeles, from its hot dirty streets and seedy bars to the elevated coolness of its luxury hillside mansions. It was published in 1940,and the content is somewhat old fashioned,but every time I open this book,I can meet timeless Philip Marlowe,a man of principle. Chandler > chandelier > πολυέλαιος > κρεμάστηκα απ’ τον πολυέλαιο (έκφραση που λέμε στην παρέα και σημαίνει συγκεκριμένα πράγματα, όποιος κατάλαβε κατάλαβε).

If you can get past the casual racism that litters the early chapters, you’ll find one of the classics of noir fiction. In this "ingeniously plotted" story, "Chandler explored his detective's fallibility and vulnerability" (ODNB). meeting pretentious quacks, political bosses dirty cops, drug pushing doctors visiting gambling boats off the coast, the rich creeps too even a "good girl", (who scares him ) and with little help to solve several murders. Three minutes of that and we turned inland, by a big service station, and wound along the flank of the foothills.