The Long Goodbye
Ratings47
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Ratings47
Average rating4
In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip 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, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
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8 primary books9 released booksPhilip Marlowe is a 10-book series with 8 primary works first released in 1934 with contributions by Raymond Chandler and Cornelia Bucur.
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Seems quite a lot longer than the other Chandler I've read, but it's worth it, absolutely brilliant with a final chapter that is well worth it. Now to go and watch the Altman film with Elliot Gould as the updated (to the 70s anyway) Marlowe.
Interesting, and well written. However it seemed to me to drag on a bit at spots. I take it that was because of the time of writing, were I'm accustomed to a somewhat more hurried writing style.
It wasn't a bad book, it was a good who-dun-it, however, the langauge meant i longer reading time than I would have prefered for a who-dun-it.
Can't say I enjoyed this as much as the previous Chandler books I've read. I suppose the nastiness, racism and misogyny are hard to stomach despite the fig leaf of acceptability due to when it was written.
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