The Big Sleep
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Description
Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out. And that's before he stumbles over the first corpse.
The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's first novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.
'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times
'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph
'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times
'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess
Discover the newest addition to the inimitable Philip Marlowe series - Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne - out 6 September 2018 in hardback and ebook from Hogarth.
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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.
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.
Description
Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out. And that's before he stumbles over the first corpse.
The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's first novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.
'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times
'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph
'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times
'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess
Discover the newest addition to the inimitable Philip Marlowe series - Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne - out 6 September 2018 in hardback and ebook from Hogarth.
Book Information
Posts
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.
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.