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Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
I read the first two Philip Marlowe novels sometime in high school, but I honestly couldn't make heads or tails or what was going on. I am mightily relieved to discover that Chandler recycled and reused his short stories to make them into his novels! So the problem wasn't with me, the reader, but more with Chandler, the author. I enjoy Chandler's work more knowing that the plot is going to be somewhat incomprehensible, and that readers should sign up just for the noir atmosphere and barbed, hard-boiled dialogue.
All the same, I had a hard time getting through this book. It's bogged down with racist epithets and descriptions, and it was really difficult for me read certain parts of the novel and stomach some of the ideas that were prevalent at the time. I usually really enjoy hard-boiled detective novels, and Chandler writes fabulously, but racist language and depictions of black people, Native Americans, Asian folks really took me out of this one.
All the same, I had a hard time getting through this book. It's bogged down with racist epithets and descriptions, and it was really difficult for me read certain parts of the novel and stomach some of the ideas that were prevalent at the time. I usually really enjoy hard-boiled detective novels, and Chandler writes fabulously, but racist language and depictions of black people, Native Americans, Asian folks really took me out of this one.