A review by baco
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

2.0

These stories are really a guilty pleasure for me. I love Chandler's writing style -- it's odd at times, but when he's on, it's fantastic, all cool and smooth and dark. I love his descriptions (when he's not spending a whole page describing every single article of clothing worn by a character who's only going to get two pages of screentime). I like Marlowe! I like the mysteries and the mood and the dark, stylish picture he paints of 1930s Hollywood. But the racism, homophobia and misogyny here are so thick that at best it's ridiculous and at worst it makes me feel like I've been rolling in mud.