#Celebrate #SetInLrgCity Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago but Los Angeles and the Southern California area amongst the rich , famous, and amoral was where his books were set .
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One simply cannot have New Year's Eve without Nick & Nora & Asta. 🩶🤍🖤
It's Nick and Nora––
With martinis and a murder
to solve on New Year's Eve.
pickI‘m not a “hard boiled / noir” aficionado but maybe I should be, who doesn‘t love an MC walking around, shot & drunk, unwittingly solving a crime. From the description I thought Nora would be a more involved character, so that was a let down, but I was entertained.
#ChristmasCrimeChallenge
My current co-worker
panThus was referred to or recommended in something I read recently so I thought I‘d read it. I didn‘t like it at all. Obviously it‘s from a different generation, but the sexism, gaslighting, and just terrible stereotyping made it hard to read. Not that good of a detective novel in my opinion…I guesses early on who was behind things & had it right.
pickPacks quite a punch for such a short novel (115 pages). I really want to rewatch the movie now - the Fred MacMurray version. I've never seen the remake.
But can someone explain to me why the characters' names were changed for the movie? From Walter Huff to Walter Neff, and from Phyllis Nirdlinger to Phyllis Dietrichson. At least the first names weren't changed.
"I puffed at the cigarette. It was one of those things with filters in them. It tasted like a high fog strained through cotton wool."
-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
#fog. #HauntsandHexes
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
panHated this.
The main character is an insufferable misogynist with no redeeming features, and since he doesn't seem to care what's going on, there's no reason why we should either.
Read as an example of the Hardboiled subgenre, and suitably unimpressed.
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Reading this for HRCYED subgenres prompt and I'm not sure I can weather the sexist writing to enjoy the story.
"She was a blonde woman of a few more years than thirty. Her facial prettiness was perhaps five years past its best moment."
Feminist rage piqued.
so-soI found an old volume of mystery stories & novels while antiquing a couple weeks ago. The first novel in the collection was The Maltese Falcon, which I have never actually read. It had some good twists but wasn't amazing. Overall this only gets a so-so.
