The Big Sleep and Other Novels

The Big Sleep and Other Novels

Softcover
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Description

Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where he attended Dulwich College, alma mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep. Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America.

Book Information

Main Genre
Novels
Sub Genre
Contemporary
Format
Softcover
Pages
672
Price
16.50 €

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Well, this wasn't great. Unexpectedly disappointing

Yeah, it's a classic, I get it. But for me, apart from that, there's really no other reason to read it. Yes, it was written in 1939 and you can tell. Women are either slapped in the face or kissed whenever considered necessary. That's definitely not my type of book. And to boiling it down just to that may be unfair, but i also just found it boring. The story is complicated and not very gripping. Yeah, the writing style is fun. The first couple of pages, I was really intrigued. But that feeling soon ended and couldn't really carry me through the whole story. Even though really short of a book, it felt like ages to finish. Would recommend to people who think "everything was better in the olden days" when the roles of men and women were still the ones of strong provider and weak maiden waiting to be saved.

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Wenn jeder Krimi wie die von Chandler wären, dann würde ich viel mehr lesen. Er hat eine Art filmische Erzählen mit erfunden, wovon heute viele US-Autoren zehren. Die Story ist vielleicht etwas arg verschlungen, als in späteren; aber das schmälert den Joy an der Sache nur geringfügig.

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Ein Klassiker der Detektivromane genannt: Krimi

Also ich habe es unaufmerksam gelesen, die Spannung kommt erst später. Um was geht es, um Erpressung oder? Ein alter behinderter reicher Mann sorgt sich um seine Töchter. Detektiv Marlowe verspricht ihm Aufklärung. Das ist damals noch der männliche Blick auf Frauen und eine benimmt sich auch sehr kindlich sexy Teenager halt etwas machohafte Darstellung muss die Leserin vertragen können und es waren halt andere Zeiten, man kann hier gut studieren, was sich geändert hat. Die Vergangenheit kann man nicht ändern. Ja zum Schluss wird es spannend. Verfilmt mit Humphrey Bogart und Laureen Bacall.

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