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| Literary Snobs : What are you reading NOW November 09? | | 176 | iansales, Sunday 7:56am | |
| Book talk : Novels about alcoholics... [hic!] | | 52 | Third_cheek, Sunday 4:37am | |
| Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Raymond Chandler | | 9 | peanuts1966, Friday 7:40pm | |
| Bibliomysteries : How do you define Bibliomystery? | | 13 | Cecilturtle, Friday 4:49pm | |
| 1010 Category Challenge : mathgirl40's 1010 challenge | | 56 | mathgirl40, Thursday 10:36pm | |
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| 1001 Books to read before you die : Dave's 1001 List | | 17 | Nickelini, Wednesday 12:02pm | |
| Writer-readers : How does one define Classic? | | 46 | K.J., Tuesday 9:19am | |
| BookCrossing Australia! : Group Reading Log: November 2009 | | 75 | livrecache, November 30 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Use five titles to tell a story | | 115 | DianeFHill, November 29 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Red_Scharlach's II - 28/06/2009 - 27/06/2010 | | 20 | Red_Scharlach, November 28 | |
| Fifty States Fiction (or Nonfiction) Challenge : California books | | 16 | MusicMom41, November 24 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : enheduanna's 2009 book list | | 82 | enheduanna, November 6 | |
| 100 Books Challenge for 2009 : enheduanna's 2009 book list | | 34 | destinyhascheatedme, November 5 | |
| 999 Challenge : Plekter's 999 challenge | | 35 | plekter, November 3 | |
| Book talk : The Best Mysteries of All Time by Reader's Digest/ImPress Mysteries | | 81 | dvdtherapy, November 1 | |
| Book talk : Another Silly Game Part 32 | | 418 | moibibliomaniac, October 30 | |
| Literary Snobs : What are you reading NOW? October, 2009 | | 139 | kswolff, October 30 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Sara's 1001, with Opinions | | 23 | Sarasamsara, October 25 | |
| Book talk : Books made into movies | | 107 | Ape, October 25 | |
| Crime, Thriller & Mystery : What are you reading now (Still continuing) | | 314 | mysterybuff1, October 21 | |
| Club Read 2009 : Reading_fox's reads 2009 | | 62 | reading_fox, October 20 | |
| 1010 Category Challenge : psutto's 101010 challenge list | | 19 | psutto, October 19 | |
| Fifty States Fiction (or Nonfiction) Challenge : Books Across America | | 12 | sweetbug, October 11 | |
| Literary Snobs : What Are You Reading , September 2009 ? | | 214 | anna_in_pdx, October 1 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Caty M's 2009 Reading - Volume 2 | | 206 | CatyM, October 1 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : jonesli's 75 Challenge for 2009 | | 151 | amwmsw04, September 20 | |
| 999 Challenge : CatyM's | | 116 | chrine, September 15 | |
| The Green Dragon : Amazing August Acquisitions 2009 | | 101 | JohnAdcoxCarolBales, September 2 | |
| 999 Challenge : VictoriaPL's 999 | | 252 | avatiakh, September 1 | |
| 999 Challenge : jonesli's 999 categories and a few books | | 108 | jonesli, August 27 | |
| BookCrossing Australia! : Group reading log: July 2009 | | 123 | Miss-Owl, August 21 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : merry10's 2008 challenge | | 222 | merry10, August 17 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of June 27, 2009? | | 259 | ashleywolf, July 28 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What is Your Type of Book? | | 43 | Narilka, July 5 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home- June 2009 | | 331 | mckait, July 1 | |
| Hardboiled / Noir Crime Fiction : Favorite Cinematic Adaptations of Noir? | | 29 | jonesli, June 24 | |
| Club Read 2009 : lriley's May-June-July-August thread. | | 3 | lriley, June 11 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of 30 May, 2009? | | 231 | FicusFan, June 8 | |
| Literary Snobs : Your current reading for the 2nd Quarter , 2009 ? | | 411 | kswolff, June 2 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Shorter books | | 67 | Nickelini, May 31 | |
| Book talk : Books identifiable by single line or less: | | 46 | puddleshark, May 28 | |
| Hogwarts Express : I HAVE read X, but HAVE NOT read Y (III) | | 249 | elbakerone, May 26 | |
| Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Hobbies. | | 45 | RebeccaAnn, May 16 | |
| Book talk : Your favorite book? | | 121 | Sandydog1, May 13 | |
| The Green Dragon : April Acquisitions! | | 148 | saltmanz, May 4 | |
| 999 Challenge : unaluna's 999 challenge | | 17 | VictoriaPL, April 29 | |
| 999 Challenge : aliform's 999 | | 29 | tracyfox, April 13 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : The 1001 "I've Read That" chain game, Thread Three | | 299 | Booksloth, March 22 | |
| Book talk : Famous openings | | 49 | MrAndrew, March 17 | |
| BookCrossing Australia! : Group Reading Log: February 2009 | | 83 | wookiebender, February 28 | |
| Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now - January 2009 | | 174 | MrAndrew, February 9 | |
| Literary Snobs : Best and worst film adaptations of literary works (for cinema snobs) | | 154 | geneg, February 1 | |
| BookCrossing Australia! : Group Reading Log: January 2009 | | 100 | crimson-tide, January 31 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Your BEST BOOKS of 2008 | | 174 | MissTeacher, January 18 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Size Matters | | 18 | varielle, January 12 | |
| 888 Challenge : karenmarie's 888 challenge | | 65 | billiejean, January 3 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Prop2gether's 2008 List | | 324 | Whisper1, January 2 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Zero to 150 - 2008 | | 119 | zanix, December 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : glwebb's 2008 books | | 83 | glwebb, December 2008 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : size does matter | | 16 | mamalaz, December 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : cabegley's 2008 challenge | | 105 | mrstreme, December 2008 | |
| 888 Challenge : Zero's 888 | | 73 | ReneeMarie, December 2008 | |
| Book talk : Guess The Book Mk 4 | | 351 | MrAndrew, October 2008 | |
| Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Who do you see the characters as in a novel? | | 18 | LA12Hernandez, October 2008 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : September 2008: Which Book from the 1001 List are You Reading? | | 83 | jfetting, September 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : nicole's 75 book challenge (2008) | | 43 | nperrin, September 2008 | |
| Book talk : Best book title | | 89 | MerryMary, August 2008 | |
| Book talk : looking for astonishingly INTRICATE mystery plots, do you know any? | | 26 | Geckogecko, August 2008 | |
| Crime, Thriller & Mystery : looking for very VERY intricate plots | | 30 | jseger9000, August 2008 | |
| Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Favorite crime novel ever! | | 125 | theaelizabet, August 2008 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Opposites Attract II: Paired Titles | | 14 | CD1am, August 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : marcyjill | | 27 | marcyjill, July 2008 | |
| The Black Orchid (A Nero Wolfe Group) : Books about Stout/Wolfe | | 64 | Eurydice, July 2008 | |
| The Black Orchid (A Nero Wolfe Group) : Suggetions for fans of Rex Stout | | 38 | Moovyz, July 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Leigh22 | | 1 | Leigh22, July 2008 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Mortality | | 37 | ostrom, July 2008 | |
| The Green Dragon : Crabs with Cranky Cake Pants: The Latest Edition | | 512 | ejj1955, July 2008 | |
| Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Why do we read mysteries? | | 33 | ninjapenguin, June 2008 | |
| Book talk : most hated books | | 5 | Tess22, June 2008 | |
| Book talk : Guess the Book Ver 2.0 | | 308 | thorold, June 2008 | |
| Book talk : hi,im new! | | 14 | TeacherDad, May 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 17 May 2008 | | 187 | Cariola, May 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 29 March 2008 | | 178 | mrspenny, May 2008 | |
| Site talk : Mismatch! | | 25 | fleela, May 2008 | |
| 888 Challenge : nicole's 999 | | 21 | nperrin, April 2008 | |
| Dormant: 888 Challenge : RMXtreme's 888 | | 12 | RMXtreme, April 2008 | |
| Dormant: Detectives : Best you've ever read? | | 12 | akfarrar, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 February 2008 | | 148 | kmbooklover, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Books and Movies | | 47 | frogbelly, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Tell us what you are reading now, part III | | 394 | WillSteed, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Is there any film that actually does justice to the book? | | 107 | cal8769, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Have You Bought Any Books Lately Part 3 | | 362 | maggie1944, January 2008 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Why not? I've got over 2 months, right? | | 18 | Kplatypus, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Detectives : Why are we sharing only 2? | | 3 | akfarrar, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : charbutton's list | | 12 | charbutton, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? November 2007 | | 90 | teelgee, December 2007 | |
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... the question- What is a bibliomystery? Every reader has developed their own definition. I tend to be pretty strict. Is The Big Sleep a bibliomystery b/c a bookstore figures into the story? I say not. I think it's more a story of blackmail and pornography than of a central biblio-element. ... ... spirit! My 60mins on Thursdays is inviolable. So here's the real question.... are you Sam girl or a Dean girl?
I love The Big Sleep and I whole-heartedly recommend it, such a classic.
I just finished The Nymphos of Rocky Flats and I have to say it was better than what I expected.
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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 03/11/2009 - 27/11/2009
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
I just love this guy's writing style. He uses tons of description but somehow it never slows down the plot or get boring. Brilliant!
Total books read to date = 13/50 I just finished The Big Sleep, which I started a couple of months ago. It took a while, since I was mostly using it as a travel/subway book and kept forgetting it. I really liked it though! The plot got a little hairy toward the end, but I was surprised and impressed by the quality of the writing. ... Speaking of great reads, I just finished Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, which to my mind is the archetypal hardboiled detective novel. I wish there were more out there as well written. I seem to remember being told a while back that the mystery was so convoluted that even Chandler said ... thinking...
The old Philip Marlow (The Big Sleep etc) liked the odd tipple.
The Mayor of Casterbridge had some unfortunate experiences with alcohol.
hmmm. I don't doubt that there are a lot more, but i guess they don't appeal to me. I enjoyed both of those, Kafka on the Shore and The Big Sleep. Very different of course, but then no-one can ever say that us lot don't have eclectic reading tastes! :D
livrecache, when you enter a book with the touchstone brackets they come up on the right hand side of the message box. ... ...
Next up, a novel I've been wanting to read for ages, and which Mum kindly dropped off for me when she visited last week - The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. And wouldn't I love one of those myself! The big sleep by Raymond Chandler
just finished it. never heard so many similes in my life!
#224 hey charlesboyd--i *know* we are. don't really care, though, since it's a silly game and not a measure of anything. :) ... the library (I have 8 from the list) and TBR):
1 - Empire of the Sun - Ballard
2 - The long goodbye - Chandler
3 - The big sleep - Chandler
4 - Heart of Darkness - Conrad
5 - The picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
6 - The strange case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde -Stevenson
7 - King S ... Rereading The Big Sleep for the first time in five or so years and loving it. ... $68):
The Bluest Eye
The Ultimate Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Snow
Cat's Cradle
The Handmaid's Tale
The Big Sleep
Rabbit, Run
The Maltese Falcon
Ulysses
Lolita
Crime and Punishment
The Master and Margarita
The Secret History
Beloved
Song of Solomo ... ... sense of place: for sheer small town Americana 5/5, for Minnesota characters 5/5
oh ya, you betcha.
4. 07/25/09 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (California)
overall book: 5/5. Terrific. A hard-boiled detective novel from the early days of the noir genre. Hard to believe ... Finished The Big Sleep and then got distracted from other books by Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris. Enjoying it quite a bit. ... by Jim Thompson last night; I think I'll be doing an Amazon order of his other titles in the near future.
Moving on to The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, Desolation Road by Ian McDonald and The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks. #6 and 7: Absolutely love The Big Sleep; it's not just "detective fiction"--surprisingly well written.
Just finished The Cosmos Trilogy, Frederick Seidel. A reverse-Divine Comedy that ends in hell (Manhattan!).
About halfway through Typee and really liking it. Got the Library of Americ ... ... a little over 1/3 of it a while ago and then abandoned it for...something. I can't remember why I stopped, actually.
The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler. It's my first Chandler. I've actually only glanced at the first ten pages or so. I was inspired to read it after seeing and enjoying ... ... E.E. "Doc" Smith (A purchase inspired by The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao).
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Blue Hammer by Ross Macdonald ... (03/12/09)
Candidates:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Taken: A Hazel Micallef Mystery by Inger Ash Wolfe
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Cart Before the Corpse by Carolyn McSparren
Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg ... these books because they exemplify the best of 1800's literature, but with a modern sensibility.
Farewell My Lovely
The Big Sleep
The Long Goodbye
The Maltese Falcon
The Thin Man
You either enjoy noir or you don't. If you do, these are all amazing.
Borges
Ficciones
Labyr ... ... and started reading the books I was supposed to have been saving for Thailand! (This 'justified' the purchase last night of The Big Sleep.)
Raymond Chandler's novels are all set in old Hollywood, I believe. I'm reading The Big Sleep for my California book. Like #7 tututhefirst with Steinbeck, this challenge was my excuse to read a Phillip Marlow story. ... 10/3/09
Alaska -- The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon, fiction, TBR
Arizona
Arkansas
California -- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, fiction, finished 07/25/09
Colorado -- Plainsong by Kent Haruf, fiction, finished 09/12/09
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Geo ... ... bog. the contrast makes for a great read. I'll be looking for more of ms. french's books!
I'm sleepwalking through the big sleep by Raymond Chandler. i enjoy period books, especially 50's L.A., and enjoy Chandler's rather desultory style but there's a quality to the narration that ... ... for Snow - Peter Høeg (VI)
59. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (VIII)
60. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (VIII)
61. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
62. Mistress of the Art of Death - Ariana Franklin (III)
63. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive - Alexander McCall Smith (IX)
Categ ... ... by Elizabeth Gaskell
Than went to my writer's group, which takes place in a little used bookstore, and picked up The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan. The Long Goodbye was confusing to me (and I loved The Big Sleep). What kept me going was Chandler's style. I love his words. I don't want to warn you off of it though, I hope you find that it suits you.
Congrats on finishing a category! I haven't done that yet, though hopefully I ... 127. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
I thought that this was a very good book, but I didn't like it a great deal. Does that makes sense? I mean, I didn't hate it, and I could certainly appreciate why it has the classic status that it does, but I found it too stark and hopeless and ... 61. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
This completes my crime, thriller and mystery category (VI).
I thought that this was a very good book, but I didn't like it a great deal. I mean, I didn't hate it, and I could certainly appreciate why it has the classic status that it does, but for me ... #165 -- Read The Big Sleep next! I love that book! ... what it's called, and about matters within the book itself. it's well narrated by alyssa breshnahan.
in the queue are the big sleep, the graveyard book, cutting for stone, unaccustomed earth, and the enchantress of florence. ... at night." David Copperfield
"Fear is the mind-killer." Dune
"Such a lot of guns around town, and so few brains." The Big Sleep
One problem I have is knowing whether some memorable lines are from a book or were added for the movie version. So, one that comes to mind is "I'm not ... ... Trocchi
70. Let the great world spin--Colum McCann
71. Memory--Philippe Grimbert
72. The big sleep--Raymond Chandler
73. No logo--Naomi Klein
74. Oblivion: Stories--David Foster Wallace
working on The journey of Little Gandhi--Elias Kh ... Welcome to the challenge! I need to finish reading Susan Cooper myself. I can't wait to see what you think of The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon, two of my favorite books. 8. Classic Mystery/Detective Novels
1. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
2. Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie
3. Murder On the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
4. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
5. Maigret and the Yellow Dog - Georges Simenon
6. The No. 1 Ladies' Dete ... ... read:
House of Suns Reynolds' latest. Very good superb universe building let down by dropping a few plot points mid-air.
the big Sleep - change of genre into 1930s gritty crime. Readable but of more interest in the 30s culture than the actual plot.
The Truth one of my favourite Pratchetts. ... ... sounds a lot like a Gumshoe I read about Once Upon a Winter's Night. He probably got the chance to indulge in a Big Sleep on the train, if that sundae didn't give him Heartburn. ... to Noir! What Chandler will you be reading next?
edited to add... have you read Perchance to Dream (Parker's sequel to The Big Sleep)? I didn't see it in your library. They are just being re-printed in UK. He's an author I've always been meaning to try and just picked up The big sleep on saturday. How many are in the full series? Are there any really stinkers to avoid? 18: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler ... couple of others readable, but I've bad memories of Hood. Maybe it was just me.
Nothing to lose
house of suns and big sleep on 3 for 2 at Waterstones as I was passing by, not intending to have bought any books. ... guise of art, they got a little, um, of the good stuff in.
Can't make up my mind. The Postman Always Rings Twice or The Big Sleep. Both, I think. ... never tire of reading his books.
The Little Sister
The Long Goodbye
The High Window
The Lady in the Lake
The Big Sleep
It could only be Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep? ... Jorge Luis Borges
64) Farewell, My Lovely -- Raymond Chandler
65) The Power and the Glory -- Graham Greene
66) The Big Sleep -- Raymond Chandler
67) Rebecca -- Daphne du Maurier
68) Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck
69) Tender Is the Night -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
... ... separate introductions for each story was quite effective. A solid and informative addition to my Heian library.
22. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
I'd been wanting to read one of these for a long time, and it didn't disappoint. I really liked it--the hard-boiled dick, the slick ... ... separate introductions for each story was quite effective. A solid and informative addition to my Heian library.
22. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
I'd been wanting to read one of these for a long time, and it didn't disappoint. I really liked it--the hard-boiled dick, the slick ... ... recommend books to me. Playback was a recommendation from jonesli and we agreed to read it in tandem. I am a huge fan of The Big Sleep, Chandler’s first novel, so I thought it was a nice bookend to read his last novel.
In Playback we find Marlowe tailing a redhead. A mysterious woman ... ... Sleeper Awakes; I plan to read The Island of Dr. Moreau in October for Halloween. I had The Dain Curse by Hammett and The Big Sleep by Chandler scheduled for my mystery read category this year. I hope you will do reviews of the books in your Enlightening Challenges category--they look ... Welcome! I'll be watching your crime fiction category. Have you read The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler? Did you do something, kirby? ;)
I haven't read The Big Sleep but I have read The Big Over Easy. I haven't read The Blue Girl, but i have read The Big Sleep.
P.S. Is that subject line the right way around?
*scratches head* ... the existence of the Florida tag on fark.com.
Farther back in crime I like crime-noir authors like Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) and Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man).
Related to crime, I've liked spy novels, anything by John le Carre. The Spy Who Came ... ... 116.'
'I'm afraid not - at the moment.' .....
.... 'You do sell books?' I said in my polite falsetto.
from The Big Sleep Now finished The Big Sleep. Messy plot, wonderful spare 'tough' prose, and an interesting main character. Couldn't quite hack those ditzy dames though - not a sensible one among them!!
Next up is Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture which is for the local Book Club.
ETA: wookiebender, ... Dearly Devoted Dexter is Done and Dusted! Another absorbing foray into the mind of a monster. Next up is The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, another 1001 book. The 39 Steps
The Big Sleep
The River
Charlotte Gray
A Very Long Engagement 13. The Lady In the Lake Raymond Chandler's fourth novel, I believe. I think The Big Sleep is my favorite book of his and I enjoyed this one as well. I thought that there were a few too many characters for me to keep track of, but it could just be me.
It is the story of Derace Kingsley who ... I've read The Big Sleep, although it was many (many!) years ago.
Has anyone else read The Quiet American, one of my new all-time favourites I discovered while working my way through the 1001 list! ... lay a claim to Howards End. As for my next one, I'm surprised it hasn't shown up yet: Raymond Chandler's classic The Big Sleep? I've now moved to Los Angeles with Raymond Chandler in THe Big Sleep. God! THe man writes beautifully! ... by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1.7 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
1.8 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
1.9 The big sleep by Raymond Chandler DONE ... Buck
The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
Death ... ... of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith. I'm considering these two for myself to give me some breathing room.
I'm reading The Big Sleep in my mystery category and I plan to read The Book Thief in my Books about Books category if I have room for it. I'll be checking to see how you like those ... ... stery
CATEGORY COMPLETED 19/6/09
1. Dark Fire by C J Sansom (started 22/1/09; finished 9/2/09)
2. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler (19/6/09)
3. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Høeg (6/6/09)
4. The Mind Readers - Margery Allingham (4/5/09)
5. The Bad Quar ... ... of Lehane's Kenzie/Gennaro mysteries and all were quite good.
On the Shoulders of Giants
Fool's War
Old Man's War
The Big Sleep
All Mortal Flesh
Pirate Freedom
Thanks to all for your lists... now I'll never run out of things to look for.
... Dying
The Thirteenth Tale
Judgment in Stone
Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity, and The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Big Sleep
Madame Bovary
The Friday Night Knitting Club ... good genre books.
Of course there is The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett with Bogey as Sam Spade, followed by The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. Another pair of classic movies from pretty good genre writers.
This could go on forever. The Big Sleep? Okay, finished numbers 139 and 140:
Manhattan Love Story by Cornell Woolrich
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Liked both stories very much, and both are from same literary period and genre--hard boiled noir, although Woolrich is often considered the "father" while Chandler is the talent ... Finished The End of the Affair and In the Heart of the Seas and enjoyed both books--for different reasons. Reading now The Big Sleep, having managed not read it in the past (not sure how that happened!) and enjoying it more than Farewell, My Lovely. ... recommended for mystery fans. Now I have to find the next in series in English.
On to Cornell Woolrich (mystery) and The Big Sleep (also mystery--is there a trend here). ... psychological study...
115. The Color Purple, Alice Walker, 1983
A new spirituality borne of oppression.
116. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler, 1939
Great to read the original after having seen/read so many homages. Cynical gumshoe deals with low-lifes.
117. Hotel du Lac, Ani ... I've recently finished Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep. It was wonderful to read the original after all the homages I've read or seen. ... a bit more confusing. Despite my love of Bogart, it's Mitchum's voice that I hear in my head whenever I read the opening of The Big Sleep.
... a literary perspective. But, then again, surely no one is reading Chandler today purely for his plots?! I didn't like The Big Sleep (TBS) nearly quite as much because IMO the plot of that one is way too complicated and action-oriented à la Hammett - there are far too many characters with ... Try The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. Really anything by Raymond Chandler is worth a read, but The Big Sleep is especially complex. I'd like to second The Big Sleep. Not only is the plot extraordinarily complex, Raymond Chandler's writing is wonderful. I'm reading The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. I think it's the closest to Archie, without his special wisecracks and affection for Wolfe, that I've read so far. I read Chandler years ago, but decided I didn't much care for him. Possibly it was because of the darkness of it all? Anyway, I'm ... ... so if you're also looking for a non-depressing 1001 book, you may want to look at this one)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Big Sleep
The Secret Agent
The Great Gatsby
Where Angels Fear to Tread
The Maltese Falcon
The Sun Also Rises
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Kim
Death in ... ... Follett (4.0)
7. 'A' is for Alibi – Susan Grafton (4.0)
8. Postmortem – Patricia Cornwell (4.0)
9. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler (4.0)
10. The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn – Colin Dexter (4.0-)
The scores given in parentheses are how I rate these ... ... Argov(5/17/08)
14.Enlightenment for Idiots-Anne Cushman(5/20/08)
15.Eat, Pray, Love-Elizabeth Gilbert(5/23/08)
16.The Big Sleep- Raymond Chandler(5/26/08)
17.The High Window-Raymond Chandler(5/29/08)
18.Farewell, My Lovely-Raymond Chandler(6/06/08)
19.The Lady in the Lake- Raym ... #258 alans,
Don't feel bad about The Big Sleep. It was not written as a novel, but in fact was originally a bunch of short stories that were tweaked and strung together, which is why it is so incoherent and confusing. Once you know that you can tell. It was infamously difficult to make into a ... I read Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and
I just hated it. I'm sure lots of people here love it,
but I really couldn't get into it. It was very complicated and I couldn't figure out who was killing whom and why.
Now I'm reading something light and frothy called On the Slam. It's a ... In searching for the most intricate mystery I am surpised that no one has mentioned The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. Delightfully and astoundingly baroque and apparently the product of the combination of three short stories, this plot so confounded all who touched it that when (perhaps ... Interestingly, William Faulkner helped write the screenplay for The Big Sleep. I'm a fan of The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep.
In fact, I owe a lot to Bogart. If it weren't for his performance then I wouldn't have ever read Hammett or Chandler! The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
The Book of Small, by Emily Carr
The Small Bachelor, by P.G. Wodehouse
The Long Loneliness, by Dorothy Day
A Well-Behaved Little Boy, by Tom Smith The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather
Shake Hands Forever Ruth Rendell
Sidetracked (so to speak) Henning Mankell
Where There's a Will Rex Stout The Big Sleep/Bright Lights, Big City
Farewell, My Lovely/A Farewell to Arms
Trout Fishing in America/Paris Trout
Go Tell It on the Mountain/When the Mountain Fell
Train Whistle Guitar/Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone ... completed my original 888 challenge. Since my last post I've finished...
In extra credit categories: Blood Meridian, The Big Sleep, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
And doubling-up in original categories: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Namesake, No Country For Old Men, Da ... ...
Meditations ***
by Marcus Aurelius
06/20/08
The Hunchback of Notre Dame ***½ (#125)
by Victor Hugo
06/20/08
The Big Sleep ***½
by Raymond Chandler
06/21/08
The Namesake ****
by Jhumpa Lahiri
06/22/08
No Country For Old Men ***½
by Cormac McCarthy
06/22/08
Daw ... Ack. My time spent in slumberland is so convoluted in its plots that if it weren't for my insomnia it might as well BE The Big Sleep.
Not only was there the shocking revelation that my (in dreamland) wife and daughter were an illusion created by a jealous sister of the Faerie Woman I was ... ... introduction.
The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night and The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Big Sleep and anything else by Raymond Chandler.
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk.
A Streetcar Named Desire and the short stories of Tennessee William ... ... above)
28. Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshanthan (fiction, Early Reviewers, 302 pages--review above)
29. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (fiction, 155 pages)
30. Couldn't Keep It to Myself by Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution (memoir ... The Little Black Dress, by Amy Holman Edelman
The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
Miniature Rooms, the Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, by Bruce Hatton Boyer
Il Canal Grande di Venezia descritto da Antonio Quadri e illustrati da 60 tavole incise da Dionisio Moretti ... ... are all like perfect gems. I think the only other author who makes me feel that way is Alice Munro.
I started The Big Sleep this morning. It's not my usual type of book, but I'm finding it quite fun. I think a viewing of the movie is in order--maybe we should do that as a group ... ... book) last night and am still gathering my thoughts for my review. In the meantime, I've started Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep for my book club. Not my usual fare, but I am absorbed so far. ... to LT
If mysteries are your thing then you might like to look into these;
Classic 30's and 40's
Raymond Chandler
The big sleep
The lady in the Lake
or
Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese falcon
The thin man
A different twist with Native American with themes;
To ... ... Right
Also, nine of my top ten fiction recs from special sauce are from the same book. Apparently, LT really loves The Big Sleep ... ika
Stepmother
Casino Royale
The little sister
The big sleep
Wild nights!
The Contractor
The Murderer Vine
The Ballad of Dingus Magee 19. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Fairly random guess, but it kind of fits the patois:
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler? ... Jeeves by P.G.Wodehouse
16. The garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway (reread)
17. The sister by Poppy Adams
18. The big sleep by Raymond Chandler
I think I'll try to get some more half-done reads finished so I can get my numbers up and then move on. ... now I'm trying to build up some momentum by finishing some other half-read books. This afternoon I'm going to sit down with The big sleep and hopefully finish it up and move on to the next victim, as yet undetermined. ... by Ian McEwan ****
3. The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene **
4. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad **½
5. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler ***
6. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré ***½
7. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett ***½
8. Casino Royale by Ia ... ... The spy who came in from the cold FINISHED
4. The Moonstone
5. The Godfather FINISHED
6. The Lincoln lawyer
7. The big sleep
8. The woman in white FINISHED
Fantasy:
1. The Hobbit FINISHED
2. The Lord of the rings 50th anniversary edition FINISHED
3. Frankenstein FINISH ... Just finished The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. I just love reading about LA - I'm from there - and I enjoyed the descriptions of the people, their clothes language and behavior. Phillip Marlowe is an enigma in some ways. Good book.
Next is Shakespeare The World as Stage by Bill Bry ... Finished The True Meaning of Smekday and will start The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. Also time out for a trashy romance by Lori Foster. ... with some witty political insights for the adults. I enjoyed watching J.Lo take on human characteristics. Next? I think The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. And a trashy romance - Hard to Handle by Lori Foster - totally awful. Got rid of it yesterday. And, of course, finishing The ... I've always liked Raymond Chandler's book titles (and the books themselves,of course)
The Big Sleep
The Long Goodbye
Farewell, My Lovely Re # 3
TeenAuthor,
It does not matter how many times you read it, The Big Sleep will not make sense. Chandler admitted it was basically created by slapping several old short stories together. Once you know that, you can see it.
Re topic,
I love mysteries and I am also good at math (bu ... The Big Sleep was my first mystery novel. It was hard to follow, as all mysteries are for me. I'll have to read it again. My vote would go for The Maltese Falcon. The film of The Big Sleep has excellent performances, but the plot was amended, with the effect of making it incomprehensible.
The Talented Mr Ripley although a good film, also suffers in my view from unnecessary changes to the plot.
Don't Look ... Raymond Chandler, especially The Big Sleep, for the #1 slot.
Also Barbara Vine, Minette Walters, Barbara Michaels (okay, maybe not so deep, but perfect for a lazy afternoon when you don't want to stretch your brain much!), Silence of the Lambs, Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indri ... I know that at least two of us own The Big Sleep but it's not showing up under shared either. The best detective story will take some thinking ... but the best ever opening paragraph to a detective story has to be The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler: "... 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. I ... ... except in a narrow sense ("a classic of Roman literature") akin to the "genre classic" status of The Time Machine or The Big Sleep?
As for "universality" . . . my belief in the universality of specific works of literature failed to survive an encounter with Laura Bohannon's essay "Shake ... ... with Marlowe, dealing with scumbags, coppers and nymphomaniacs, all the while doing my best Bogey impersonation in The Big Sleep Frankly, I liked Humphrey Bogart's impression of the book collector from The Big Sleep when as Philip Marlowe he keeps asking for books that don't exist to trip up the bad guys. And it has the advantage of a literary connection being based on a novel by Raymond Chandler. Think the image might ... Remember, this month it's The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and Sin City Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye by Frank Miller we're reading...
Get out you're gumshoes and Colt .45's people! Finished reading The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, just in time for the First Tuesday Book Club on the ABC in Australia, and also for my Extension 1 English unit of Crime Fiction.
It was good, but as hard to follow as a 90 km/h terrier dog. ARGH the metaphors ingrain into your system from ... ... Broken City, by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso
8. Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
9. The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
10. Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler
11. The High Window, by Raymond Chandler
12. Gotham Central: In The Line ... This month, we're reading:
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
OR
Sin City Vol. 1 by Frank Miller
You get to choose which one you read this month, and report back with your thoughts on your chosen book!
Get your Crime Fiction reading on... Picked up The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler today for my school reading list for Extension 2 English. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Farewell, my Lovely by Raymond Chandler
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Call for the Dead by John Le Carre
The Ipcress File by Len Deighton >27
Well, "Band of Brothers" is rerun on lots of channels. ;)
I don't know if I notice it more because I'm a history buff but it seems like WWII has been on the forefront of the US media (news/movies/books/TV) for a long time (granted, I'm only 30 years old), especially since The Greatest G ... September so far...
25. King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
26. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
27. I know my own heart: the diaries of Ann Lister edited by Helena Whitbread
28. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
29. Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
Hmmm ... 70. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
I wanted to read this before watching the film. Very enjoyable -- I love the way the police and detective characters talk, using funny, cynical phrases. Don't forget the original Sam Spade, Humphry Bogart. He was in many books turned movie. The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, The Caine Mutiny (Wrong touchstone - S/B Herman Wouk). These come to mind rather quickly.
E. G. Robinson was in The Prize, The Devil and Dani ... ... rk.
Can such things be? by Ambrose Bierce
A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Luck of the Bodkins by P G Wodehouse ... href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?book=5172028&mode=card">Sometimes I dream in Italian, by Rita Ciresi
The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
While the Sirens Slept, by Lord dunsany
The Cat-nappers, by P.G. Wodehouse I have an autographed copy of the big sleep. I say autographed because the inscription inside is not by the author Raymond Chandler but by one of the actresses in the film. I'm at work now, so I can't remember the name. Sadly, it's not Lauren Bacall. I want to say Betty something or other. I just discovered Raymond Chandler and really enjoyed The Big Sleep. Maybe that was because in my head Humphrey Bogart was narrating it! Anyway, my all-time favorite is Stone Angel by Carol O'Connell with Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt a ... Since the beginning of this month:
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Wittgenstein and Derrida by Henry Staten
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Some big dialogue thing about Determinism/Free Will
I'm into Studs Lonigan by J ... oooh yes, I forgot about Classic Noir. Am a huge Chandler fan and can't recommend The Little Sister enough. Some say The Big Sleep is his best work, but I prefer TLS because Marlowe is so much more jaded (it takes place much later) and is more interesting as a result. There isn't any from ... So last night at HPB and Borders I got:
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Beggar, The Thief and the Dogs, Autumn Quail by Naguib Mahfouz
Mao II by Don DeLilo
The Recognitions and Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis
The Oil Jar by Luigi Pirandello
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. ... ... Ten Stupid Things Men Do To Ruin Their Lives by Dr. Laura
10. The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
11. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
12. Surprised By Joy by C.S. Lewis
13. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
14. The Wrinkle in T ... ... the obvious question ... "You do lend books?". Had the librarian made a reference to Grapefruit (Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep - Chapter IV), I would have rung off happy. The reply was rather unkind ... I suppose I deserved it. But , but I found Stout, Chandler, Hammett, Fowles and Do ... My early view of orchids was heavily influenced by Chandler’s description of them in the Big Sleep (Chapter 2):
Marlowe: “…with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men…”
Some years ago I happened upon an exhibition at a local Shopping Centre (Mall), ... ... ago, with no reading till about five: so I'm a latecomer. Philip Marlowe, as ever inimitably played by Bogart, in The Big Sleep, is what I remember best: one of several responsible for hooking me.
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