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gbweeks 's review for:
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Another reread from many years ago. What a great book. Amazing to think it's almost a century old now. Good pacing, classic dialogue (the movie takes a good amount word for word). As an example of hardboiled private detective fiction, it holds up, and the San Francisco scenery is great too.
Given how old the book is, it is obvious that Spade definitely does not deserve his assistant, who he expects to do his bidding (though she can give as well as take). Also related to its age--you lose count of the number of cigarettes he rolls from Bull Durham tobacco.
Given how old the book is, it is obvious that Spade definitely does not deserve his assistant, who he expects to do his bidding (though she can give as well as take). Also related to its age--you lose count of the number of cigarettes he rolls from Bull Durham tobacco.