The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

Posted on 24 February 2018 by Raymond Chandler

Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he s divorced and re married and who ends up dead And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe. New Read The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6) [ author ] Raymond Chandler [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr To say goodbye is to die a little.There are some books that just feel good to have on your dashboard, never too far from your fingertips to read in the tiny gaps between obligations and responsibility The type of book that rides shotgun and keeps you company through the darker hours, through lonely nights at a shady laundromat or booze soaked rainstorms on your porch Raymond Chandler s The Long Goodbye is that sort of book, that sort of friend The past few months have seen some bleak times an To say goodbye is to die a little.There are some books that just feel good to have on your dashboard, never too far from your fingertips to...Chandler s known as the king of LA noir and word is this is his best His writing is lean and clean, short staccato sentences with not a word wasted Almost poetic in its brevity not to be confused with lack of substance Humour me, I m trying it out on this review view spoiler it s fun you should try it sometime hide spoiler Marlowe s amazingly complex, a fast talking P.I surviving on tough cynicism Deep down just a stand up guy with a soft spot for underdogs Got a moral core that e Chandler s known as the king of LA noir and word is this is his best His writing is lean and clean, short staccato sentences with not a word wasted Almost poetic in its brevity not to be confused with lack of substance Humour me, I m trying it out on this review view spoiler it s fun you should try it sometime hide spoiler Marlowe s amazingly complex, a fast talking P.I surviving on tough cynicism Deep down just a stand up guy with a soft spot for underdogs Got a moral core that earns him no thanks, just a whole whack of trouble and an enemy around every corner There s a suicide and a murder everybody s pushing Marlow to dropYou know something, kid You think you re cute but you re just ...Philip Marlowe, a cynical shamus, looks down at the parking lot of The Dancers Club, watching a drunk, be put into his car, a silver Rolls Royce, but the annoyed valet, has trouble, the left leg refuses to be moved inside, instead remains firmly on the ground Where the rest of the intoxicated man, will soon be also The pretty red headed woman, sitting next to him, or was, in the automobile, is very angry, with good reason Turns out she is Sylvia Lennox, ex wife of this inebriated war vetera Philip Marlowe, a cynical shamus, looks down at the parking lot of The Dancers Club, watching a drunk, be put into his car, a silver Rolls Royce, but the annoyed valet, has trouble, the left leg refuses to be moved inside, instead remains firmly on the ground Where the rest of the intoxicated man, will soon be also The pretty red headed woman, sitting next to him, or was, in the automobile, is very angry, with good reason Turns out she is Sylvia Lennox, ex wife of this inebriated war veteran Second World War , Terry Lennox, and he has the scars on his face to prove it Mr Marlowe not known for being a nice guy, comes down the steps and helps the defenseless Terry up While the multimillionaire s notorious daughter, says she s late for an engagement, and go get a cab to the lush, Mr Lennox Taking the vehicle it s hers , speeding away like a race driver, t...IT S OK WITH MEMarlowe cresce, senza invecchiare Letterariamente nato nel 1939, qui appare quattordici anni dopo per la sesta volta Disilluso, e apparentemente cinico, in realt il solito inguaribile romantico, qui pi che mai Al punto da credere ancora in valori come l amicizia, e perfino l onest.In questo romanzo, pi che in altri, la tematica dell alcol la fa da padrone, ci sono ben tre personaggi che ne sono schiavi lo scrittore in crisi creativa, l amico fuggitivo, e lo stesso prot IT S OK WITH MEMarlowe cresce, senza invecchiare Letterariamente nato nel 1939, qui appare quattordici anni dopo per la sesta volta Disilluso, e apparentemente cinico, in realt il solito inguaribile romantico, qui pi ...A down and out friend of Marlowe s flees to Mexico with Marlowe s help, his wife dead under suspicious circumstances Marlowe s friend soon turns up dead, an apparent suicide But what does his death, if anything, have to do with a drunk writer Marlowe finds himself watching I m not really sure how I feel about the Long Goodbye It s Chandler so the writing is great, with Chandler s trademark similes and hard boiled atmosphere On the other hand, it s written a little differently than his other A down and out friend of Marlowe s flees to Mexico with Marlowe s help, his wife dead under suspicious circumstances Marlowe s friend soon turns up dead, an apparent suicide But what does his death,...511 The Long Goodbye Philip Marlowe, 6 , Raymond Chandler 1999 1378 408 9646728073 6 20511 The Long Goodbye Philip Marlowe, 6 , Raymond Chandler 1999 1378 408 9646728073 6 20 Dammit, Raymond Chandler has style He has finesse His use of metaphor is so good that he is still an original, even after lesser noirists have copied or stolen from him outright for the past sixty years.Yet for a hardboiled novel with the slickest of metaphors, Chandler is still a very sensitive writer For a genre so easily stereotyped as gruff plastic machismo, this is an oddly meditative and melancholy book You root for Marlowe, of course, but you admire his cases and his dedication, and h Dammit, Raymond Chandler has style He has finesse His use of metaphor is so good that he is still an original, even after lesser noirists have copied or stolen from him outright for the past sixty years.Yet for a hardboiled novel with the slickest of metaphors, Chan...I enjoyed the atmospherics and mood of this one, the last of Chandler s detective stories featuring Philip Marlowe This one is different in beingmeditative and in havingof a focus on alienation among the wealthy residents of gated compounds Chandler also restrains Marlowe s use of colorful similes in his interior monologues, which became a clich in many of his imitators Compared to the earlier tales, Chandler isjudicious here in the playful, sardonic bante...When it comes to Raymond Chandler s novels starring the smart ass, misanthropic PI Phillip Marlowe, there s The Long Goodbye and then there s everything else Chandler ever wrote and it s a long, lonely drive in between The Big Sleep, Farwell, My Lovely, and The Little Sister are all seminal works of the hard boiled genre, too be sure and on any other day of the week each is its own fuel injected suicide machine but in a bare knuckled brawl, these books are packing wet noodles for arms when th When it comes to Raymond Chandler s novels starring the smart ass, misanthropic PI Phillip Marlowe, there s The Long Goo...Philip Marlowe saves a drunken guy from being dumped in a ditch He does it again another time He does is yet again another time And another And another Finally he gets into trouble for doing this no good deed ever goes unpunished.This book gives a very realistic gritty picture of US life in early fifties It provides social commentary on the subject It is considered by many critics to be the best Raymond Chandler novel, a classic of literature in general It also happened to be unnecessar Philip Marlowe sa...

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24 February 2018

Raymond Chandler