bjerz 's review for:

Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

1.0

---

Raymond Chandler is known as one of the masters of detective fiction, so I was excited to start reading, "Farewell, My Lovely." But I could hardly get past the first sentence, "It was one of the mixed blocks over on Central Avenue, the blocks that were not yet all Negro." Then, page 7, "Heads (of "all Negroes") turned slowly and the eyes in them glistened and stared in the dead alien silence of another race." And I could not continue to read a story by someone who so objectified his characters.