El Largo Adiós (the Long Goodbye) (Paperback)

from JoshEnglish

Ray Vukcevich recommened Chandler as the definitive hardboiled voice to a few writers. He's right. This is the voice! Marlowe is simple enough of a character to understand, and noble enough to love. The two plots of the story intertwine in ways that makes my head spin.

from donaldgallinger

You don't read Raymond Chandler for the plots--you read him for the magnificent "hard boiled" prose. The Long Goodbye is probably his most complex work, full of world weary insights and a somewhat more "tender" Marlowe. The great pleasure of The Long Goodbye is seeing how the main character, Phil...

from alexrichman

The ultimate noir novel? It's long, it's bleak, it's about power, and love, and lust, and booze, and getting beat up by cops and doing the right thing. The plot's foundations seem a little shaky: Marlowe goes on a crusade to protect a 'friend' he barely knows, but then again that's the kinda stra...

from figre

My first Raymond Chandler; it will not be my last. I was snagged with the first few paragraphs. " ...because Terry Lenox's left foot was still dangling outside, as if he had forgotten he had one. " "...and over her shoulders she had a blue mink that almost made the Rolls-Royce look like just anot...

from Laurenbdavis

Arguably Chandler's masterpiece. Tough, witty, poignant and smart. Okay, maybe his female characters could use just a soupcon of shading, but it's Chandler's world and he's the boss. Marlowe is a classic character, with enough complexity to spill over onto all the others. There just ain't no book...