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A review by slettlune
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
3.0
This is my first Chandler book and while I was blown away by the sheer amount of hardboilderisms on every page ("Suspicion climbed all over her face like a kitten, but not so playfully...") I quickly lost my grip on the plot right around the third or fourth tangent -- apparently Chandler cobbled this book together from several unrelated stories and I think it shows. I enjoyed the setup and the first chapters immensely, though.
I followed the audiobook as read by Elliot Gould who played Marlowe in The Long Goodbye (1973), not my favourite Chandler movie adaptation by any shot, but Gould's got that nice tough guy noir sneer and gives the supporting cast delightfully distinctive voices and cadences, it wasn't hard to tell characters apart even though I couldn't always follow the plot.
I followed the audiobook as read by Elliot Gould who played Marlowe in The Long Goodbye (1973), not my favourite Chandler movie adaptation by any shot, but Gould's got that nice tough guy noir sneer and gives the supporting cast delightfully distinctive voices and cadences, it wasn't hard to tell characters apart even though I couldn't always follow the plot.