The characters, the settings, and the turn of phrase still work today—the similes especially, Marlowe’s cynical observations often bring a wry smile or an outright chuckle.

Everybody bats you over the head and chokes you and smacks your jaw and fills you with morphine, but you just keep right on hitting between tackle and end until they’re all worn out. Some good parts of the book were preserved, but mostly the book had it's arms and legs amputated, and it's heart and brain scrambled.The Long Goodbye is praised within an anthology of American crime stories as "arguably the first book since Hammett's The Glass Key, published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery". Three minutes of that and we turned inland, by a big service station, and wound along the flank of the foothills. So if you're the type of person who loves fine writing, you'll be hard-pressed to find finer than in these pages and a thrilling crime story to boot. The story starts out with a murder, and Marlowe follows the clues to uncover an even larger mystery .

That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA gets cops' noses out of joint.noir και πόσο ελκυστικό μπορεί να είναι ακόμα και για κάποιον που διατείνεται ότι δεν είναι στα αγαπημένα του genre. I love the style of Chandlers writing and the one liners, although written a while back, has dated in some respects , but the humour still carries.

Steve: Actually, that’s often how it works with me – seemingly on point for brief spurts before devolving into flapdoodle.There is a long sequence at the docks, on the water and in a ship offshore, that just plod along; no forward motion to the plot, no incentive to stay up late reading more. This book is absolutely soaking in quotables and may have the best prose of any noir I’ve ever read. I love books like this, which suck in you in and take you to a faraway place, in a different time, away from the grim realities around you. Of the two, “fathers of noir”, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it was Chandler who I first read, and got a taste, perhaps an addiction, for noir. Tiene todos los ingredientes "Hard Boiled" de siempre, aunque no es tan "perfecta" como "El sueño eterno" o "La dama del lago".