Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

Posted on 14 February 2017 by Raymond Chandler

Marlowe s about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune teller, a couplemurders, andcorruption than your average graveyard. New Read Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2) author Raymond Chandler For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Definitely my favorite Chandler, beating out The Big Sleep by a star andthan a dozen memorable lines This book is absolutely soaking in quotables and may have the best prose of any noir I ve ever read Add in a classic main character and a solid plot and you have a nice shiny bundle of win PHILIP MARLOWE Chandler s iconic PI is an arrogant alcoholic who fails every PC test you can formulate He s racist from what I recall he insults African Americans, Japanese and Native Americans and Definitely my favorite Chandler, beating out The Big Sleep by a star andthan a dozen memorable lines This book is absolutely soaking in quotables and may have the best prose of any noir I ve ever read Add in a classic main character and a solid plot and you have a nice shiny bundle of win PHILIP MARLOWE Chandler s iconic PI is an arrogant alcoholic who fails every PC test you can formulate He s racist from what I recall he insults African Americans, Japanese and Native Americans and maybe others , homophobic and sexist enough that I would blackjack him on the braincase before he ever got within 10 yards of either of my daughters He s also mesmerizing and fills up the page with his presence His entertainment value is off the charts and he cracks wiser than anyone this side of Sam Spade But whereas Hammett s Spade is all slick, smoky quips and cat like grace, Marlowe is the other side of the tracks version He s unkem...Mr Philip Marlowe, is six feet tall, and weighing 190 lbs man, women find quite attractive, maybe a tough guy, to many onlookers, in a sleazy, and a low paying occupation, too, but is not a superhero, no eyes in the back of the head, when someone smashes his skull with a club, from behind, bigger, stronger men can, and do beat him to a bloody pulp, but the private detective is relentless and wi...First of all I m so partial to R.Chandler s books that I d easily give only the titles three stars,and this gem is definitely a five star title.Apart from this sentimental love and hate story,I m ALWAYS impressed by the characters speaking like they carry a book of wit and humor,to the point that I ll start picking up sharp edged setences from here and add them to my daily conversation.The plot is a bit comlicated with rugged and overused narrative and minor parts,but the main irresistible chara First of all I m so partial to R.Chandler s books that I d easily give only the titles three stars,and this gem is definitely a five star title.Apart from this sentimental love and hate story,I m ALWAYS impressed by the characters speaking like they carry a book of wit and humor,to the point that I ll start picking up sharp edged setences from here and...Philip Marlowe is looking for a woman s missing husband when he encounters Moose Malloy, a brute fresh out of prison, looking for his lost love Velma Moose kills a man and Marlowe gets corralled into looking for the missing Velma In the mean time, Marlowe gets another gig as a bodyguard and soon winds up with a corpse for a client Will Marlowe find Velma and get to the bottom of things As I ve said before, noir fiction and I go together like chronic constipation and heroin addiction Farewell Philip Marlowe is looking for a woman s missing husband when he encounters Moose Malloy, a brute fresh out of prison, looking for his lost love Velma Moose kills a man and Marlowe gets corralled into looking for the missing Velma In the mean time, Marlowe gets another gig as a bodyguard and soon winds up with a corpse for a client Will Marlowe find Velma and get to the bottom of things As I ve said before, noir fiction and I...Excerpts from a dinner honoring the 2016 winner of the Otis Chandler Award for Literary CriticismAudience Question You re known for your essay on the Kantian aesthetic of disinterested judgment as seen in the works of James Joyce, William Gaddis, and Dan Brown Are there other authors or titles that come to mind, perhaps evenfocused on the primacy of style Steve Well, let s see Maybe the first book I read where a certain shadowy deportment really popped as a pure statement of style wExcerpts from a dinner honoring the 2016 winner of the Otis Chandler Award for Literary CriticismAudience Question You re known for your essay on the Kantian aesthetic of disinterested judgment as seen in the works of James Joyce, William Gaddis, and Dan Brown Are there other authors or titles that come to mind, perhaps evenfocused on the primacy of style Steve Well, let s see Maybe the first book I read where a certain shadowy deportment really popped as a pure statement of style was Raymond Chandler s Farewell, My Lovely The book itself was a cannibalization of three earlier short stories of his Whereas the stories were neatly contained as standalones, the edits in piecing them together wereslapdash, sacrificing both congruency and clarity in the process Chandler responded saying, My whole career is based on the idea that the formula doesn t matter, the thing that counts is what you do with the form...She s a nice girl Not my type You don t like them nice He had another cigarette going The smoke was being fanned away from his face by his hand I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin Hey, copper, it s how I talk, see MahhhhhhThis was exactly what the doctor ordered after a blitz of wonderful yet terribly earnest books, one...It s impossible to think of anything that might be remotely fresh and interesting to say about this book It s a classic of crime fiction it was first published in 1940, and it s been reviewed thousands of times, mostly by people farcompetent than I.Suffice it to say that this is the second full length ...Phillip Marlowe is one of the most famous and influential characters in detective fiction He s also a racist alcoholic, and after all the blows to the head he routinely takes, he s almost certainly suffering from post concussion syndrome so you gotta question his judgment.But he s also the guy that says things like thisIt was a blonde A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window And thisHe looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake And t Phillip Marlowe is one of the most ...Not as complicated as it seems or as Chandler would like you to believe And that s a okay I love a little private dick action and this is perfectly satisfying This story of a thug getting out of prison and trying to find his girl is fairly straightforward, but Raymond Chandler throws a bucketload of red herrings into Farewell, My Lovely in an attempt to throw you, dear reader, off the trail Stick to the yellow brick road, Dorothy, and you ll figure it all out in short order Fresh off The Big Not as complicated as it seems or as Chandler would like you to believe And that s a okay I love a little private dick action and this is perfectly satisfying This story of a thug getting out of prison and trying to find his girl is fairly straightforward, but Raymond Chandler throws a bucketload of red herrings into Farewell, My Lovely in an attempt to throw you, dear reader, off the trail Stick to the yellow brick road, Dorothy, and you ll figure it all out in short order Fresh off The Big Sleep detective Philip Marlowe is at it again in this sequel to that highly popular and well written mystery Farewell, My Lovely is an admirable followup, but it would be tough to meet or top one...Como ya dije antes, no me ha gustado nada de nada Es m s, me ha encantado Desde luego Raymond Chandler supo crear un personaje nico, ir nico y humano que a d a de hoy sigue enamorando al lector.

Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

English
14 February 2017

Raymond Chandler