![]() ![]() ![]() "However hard I try to be nice I always end up with my nose in the dirt and my thumb feeling for somebody's eye" (p. I like a drink, but not when people are using me for a diary (p. Body after body piles up, starting with the titular drowned woman, and Marlowe has to do some pretty fast thinking to stay alive, much less ahead of the bad guys. Not to bring her back, just to be sure she's okay. Philip Marlowe gets hired to find a rich man's missing wife. Maybe it's that Marlowe is just a little sweeter in it than some others. Maybe it's that a down-home country sheriff plays a substantial, heroic part that I thoroughly enjoy. ![]() Maybe it's that part of it is set away from the grimy city. I really think The Lady in the Lake is my favorite of Chandler's novels. Keeps them fresher, you know? Works for all of them except The Big Sleep, cuz I've watched the movie half a dozen times and know the story really well by now.Īnyway. I try to read one a year (I have all seven of his novels, plus two collections of his other writings, like short stories and essays), which means it's about nine years between readings, and that lets me forget a lot of what the plots involve. You know by now that I adore Raymond Chandler's books. It was everything I needed right now - sparkly and gritty and grim and delicious. I inhaled this book in a day and a half like a drowning woman whose been handed an oxygen tank. ![]()
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