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Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
(4.5) I was going through my list of to-read books when it occurred to me that I hadn't dived into any of Raymond Chandler's Marlowe series besides The Big Sleep. I loved The Big Sleep; it's the novel that put me on to private eye works. Sadly, seeing as how most fictional private eyes are, with few exceptions, pale imitations of the original, I never thought to go back to Chandler, especially after I discovered Ross Macdonald. But after hitting up 16 out of 18 Lew Archer novels, I wanted to try something different and so here we are...
While The Big Sleep will rightly be remembered as Chandler's best, Farewell, My Lovely is more tightly plotted. I read most of it in one sitting, unable to put it down. Chandler's writing is smooth, his gift for dialogue unparalleled. You gotta take the bad with the good when you're reading him; Marlowe is a racist and misogynist. But this is a hell of a mystery tale that rockets the reader from beginning to end.
While The Big Sleep will rightly be remembered as Chandler's best, Farewell, My Lovely is more tightly plotted. I read most of it in one sitting, unable to put it down. Chandler's writing is smooth, his gift for dialogue unparalleled. You gotta take the bad with the good when you're reading him; Marlowe is a racist and misogynist. But this is a hell of a mystery tale that rockets the reader from beginning to end.