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Loading... The Big Sleep (original 1939; edition 1988)by Raymond Chandler
Work detailsThe big sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939)
Interesting classic featuring private eye, Philip Marlowe. Great narration by Eliot Gould. The language used is very sterotypical old-fashioned gum shoe type language (women are all broads, etc.). At first I found this to be a light amusing read, but there is so much stereotyping (women, homosexuals, Jews) that I found it disturbing and did not finish it. If you are in the mood for an old fashioned private eye mystery, then this might be a fun one to pick. (  ) jmoncton | Jun 3, 2013 |  What a romp! Of course, I had heard of Raymond Chandler, but it took a gift of the Penguin edition from my son to get me to read him. Love his wry humour. Enjoyed the hundred-year-old (uh-uh!) language, some of it too arcane to fathom. A complicated plot redeemed by carefully placed summaries in the construction. Easy to see how Chandler created a genre. (  ) PhilipJHunt | May 22, 2013 | This is considered the start of the modern detective story. I also heard that about The Murders in the Rue Morgue, but no matter. This is a very enjoyable read. At 185 pages I finished it in a day. There are a ton of characters, and one murder that, according to rumor, Chandler forgot about when he was writing the book so it is unsolved. The book starts with Philip Marlowe being hired to deal with a blackmailer, who ends up getting murdered. A lot of people get murdered and Marlowe is in the thick of it. Chandlers descriptions are vivid and sharp, his protagonist is a no nonsense guy with apparently no sentimentality. Some have described this book as confusing and convoluted, I thought it was busy and filled with characters but thought the story line flowed, I didn’t have much trouble following it. I recommend this book. (  ) BellaFoxx | May 4, 2013 | Another book for Crime Fiction! I really, really liked this one. Raymond Chandler has a hell of a style, and that's mostly why it gets five stars. The plot made me shrug a little, didn't impress me that much, and the characters were nigh on all insane. I followed the plot well enough, but not to the point where I could figure things out for myself. Guess I'm not detective material... Anyway, it gets five stars because the style kept on making me sit up and take notice, over and over again. I thought it was amazing. It's in first person, so all the imagery -- which seems pretty fresh to me, reading it now, years after it was published, and was probably even fresher back when it was first published -- adds to character as well. I should have noted down more of the lines I liked, but so many struck me. Getting a couple more of Raymond Chandler's books. I'm really glad I'm taking this Crime Fiction class. (  ) shanaqui | Apr 26, 2013 | Another book for Crime Fiction! I really, really liked this one. Raymond Chandler has a hell of a style, and that's mostly why it gets five stars. The plot made me shrug a little, didn't impress me that much, and the characters were nigh on all insane. I followed the plot well enough, but not to the point where I could figure things out for myself. Guess I'm not detective material... Anyway, it gets five stars because the style kept on making me sit up and take notice, over and over again. I thought it was amazing. It's in first person, so all the imagery -- which seems pretty fresh to me, reading it now, years after it was published, and was probably even fresher back when it was first published -- adds to character as well. I should have noted down more of the lines I liked, but so many struck me. Getting a couple more of Raymond Chandler's books. I'm really glad I'm taking this Crime Fiction class. ( )1  shanaqui | Apr 9, 2013 | no reviews | add a review Is contained inThe Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Library of America) by Raymond Chandler A Treasury of Great Mysteries [Volume 2] by Howard Haycraft The Big Sleep/Farewell My Lovely/The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/The High Window by Raymond Chandler Chandler Collection v. 1: The Big Sleep; The Lady in the Lake; The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler The big sleep/Farewell my lovely/The high window/The lady in the lake/The long goodbye/Playback by Raymond Chandler The Complete Novels: The Big Sleep; Farewell My Lovely; The High Window; The Lady in The Lake; The Little Sister; The Long Goodbye; Playback. Folio Society: 7 vols boxed by Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window / The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler Detective privado = The Big sleep / Michael Winner by Michael Winner Five Novels: Finger Man; The big sleep; Farewell my loveley; High window; The lady in the lake by 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) by James M. Cain Great Detective Stories by Sayers / Creasey / McBain / Chandler Has the adaptationThe Big Sleep [movie] by Howard Hawks The Big Sleep [adapted - Oxford Bookworms] by Rosalie Kerr The Big Sleep: Two Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisations (BBC Radio Collection) by Raymond Chandler Has as a study
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0394758285, Paperback)"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."(retrieved from Amazon Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:28:39 -0500) When a case of blackmail involving the daughter of a California millionaire leads to murder, the inimitable Philip Marlowe is stirred into action as he becomes embroiled in a troublesome case of extortion complicated by kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder.… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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