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... and disliked the movie.
What I really enjoy is when the book is very dissimilar to the book and both are great. Example: The Long Goodbye.
... andler(6/06/08)
19.The Lady in the Lake- Raymond Chandler(6/14/08)
20.The Little Sister-Raymond Chandler(6/19/018)
21.The Long Goodbye-Raymond Chandler(6/20/08)
22.Playback-Raymond Chandler(6/23/08)
23.Have You Found Her- Janice Erlbaum(6/24/08)
24.Possible Side Effects-Augusten Bu ... At Large and At Small
The Long Goodbye
Little Big Man
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
The Mammoth Hunters Forced to pick one, it would be The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. Pure genius that one. Maltese Falcon by Hammett and Fast One by Paul Cain would follow close behind. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie. The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler. ... sometimes, especially if the relationships between them are really complex--I would have completely lost the entire plot of The Long Goodbye without my chart. :) Some mysteries come with a "Cast of Characters" in the front for exactly that reason. Anyway, then you can write in clues or motive or ... Just finished the long good-bye and am now reading murder must advertise. I've just ordered making money and the eyre affair from amazon. ... orange either - I feel a bit scared, like when I read disgrace and was unsettled for days.
The more I read of the long goodbye the more it reminds me of the great gatsby with some P.I. vitriol thrown in. Anyone else think so?
I don't know what to read next. I saw the rossetti ... Starting The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler.
Been reading all his works. Although sometimes the plot is a little dense and hard to follow, overall the books are great.
Just starting the long goodbye and gaudi afternoon I've always liked Raymond Chandler's book titles (and the books themselves,of course)
The Big Sleep
The Long Goodbye
Farewell, My Lovely ... which seemed to last for several days.
Otherwise, I'm not a purist. I really liked Robert Altman's adaptation of The Long Goodbye which takes tremendous liberties wih the plot, but 'works' as a film nonetheless. ... I'd have to offer three favourites:
The Code of the Woosters P G Wodehouse
The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien
The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler 18. 100 Bullets: Hang Up On The Hang Low, by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso
19. The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler
Rounding out my Chandler stable with The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler. I also picked up Tender is the Night, Tristram Shandy, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Virgin Suicides, Robinson Crusoe, and Hard Times at the library today. I'm planning/hoping to get ... I have numerous favourites, but one I`ve always loved from when I first read it around 20 years ago is The long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. I was inspired to read it by the Robert Altman film, as I recall. ... to 'recuperate' in Switzerland because her freidns think she's a bit mad, is something that happened in the 1880s.
3. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
One of my LA purchases. Enjoyed it.
4. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
I have previously read Handful of Dust and hated it. ... Just finished The Long Goodbye and have just started Stiff. I'm stuck at home waiting for the exterminator, so I have plenty of reading time. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler #45 Huzzah for Crooked Little Vein! I know, it's dinky. But it's filled with love! And rat pee.
American Gods
The Long Goodbye American Gods
The Long Goodbye I. Need. To. Stop. Buying. Books.
American Gods
The Long Goodbye
I also had Medical Detectives in my hand, but my friend did an intervention and took it away. Now I'm annoyed with her. And myself, for asking her to do so. Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
Leaving Normal by Stef Ann Holm
Sail Away :155 American Folk Songs
I'd like an example, too, but I think The Long Goodbye has a pretty intricate plot. Inspired by a recent trip to Los Angeles, I'm reading The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler and enjoying it. I haven't read a detective story in a long time.
... book still on `books to be read` shelf, along with another by Greene.
Nick & Ann-Marie
Everybody,
I saw Altman`s The Long Goodbye with Elliott Gould before reading the book. I`d seen the Bogart Chandler films (i.e. films of Chandler books featuring Bogart. There isn`t a person called B ... ... Seattle. Oddly, she doesn`t share my love of gangster films and even (shudder) didn`t get anyting out of Altman`s film of The Long Goodbye feat. Elliott Gould or Men of respect with John Turturro.
Worse than that, I read both Bridget Jones` Diary and The Secretary by Serena Mackesy ... ... film noir, yet this would leave out more modern examples that are worthy of the name, like the 70's modern day remake of The Long Goodbye, the Coen Brothers' Miller's Crossing (an uncredited remake of The Glass Key) and Big Lebowski (modern rehash of The Maltese Falcon), or even ... ... goes - with the caveat that I more interested in finding new stuff than flagging what I've already read. In no order:
The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler
The Postman always rings twice James M. Cain
A rage in Harlem Chester Himes
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
... ... has been The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. But, my all-time favorite book is probably Dune, followed closely by The Long Goodbye. ... William Gibson before the movie.
The title, The Long Kiss Goodnight always reminded me of some hard-boiled titles, The Long Goodbye and Kiss Her Goodbye. Tartalom - glad to have you. :) I finally got a copy of The Long Goodbye last month, and I'm hoping to read it on a plane NEXT month - if I can wait that long.
I have to thank film noir for introducing me to the genre... in books and film. But only some 15 years ago, with no reading till ... Do'h. Square brackets! I'll try again - you should all read The Long Goodbye as well as The Pledge.
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