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Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
2.0

This will probably be my last foray into "hard-boiled" detectives for a while. I've found Chandler a lot harder to get through than Hammett. I didn't like both movies based on this one, so I didn't have high hopes. It's very clunky as a book. Chandler's plotting and the pacing are not the styles I enjoy. It also hasn't aged well. The stereotypes are harder to swallow than in other books of the period.