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Title	:	The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe #1)
Author	:	Raymond Chandler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 231 pages
Published	:	July 12th 1988 by Vintage Crime (first published February 6th 1939)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Classics. Crime. Noir. Detective. Thriller. Mystery Thriller

The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe #1)

Raymond Chandler

Paperback | Pages: 231 pages

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"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man.

This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay 'The Simple Act of Murder.' Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep. This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual.

Marlowe subsequently appeared in a series of extremely popular novels, among them The Lady in the Lake, The Long Goodbye, and Farewell, My Lovely." ~ Elizabeth Diefendorf, editor, The New York Public Library's Books of the Century, p. 112.

Selected as one of Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels, with the following review: "'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be.' This sentence, from the first paragraph of The Big Sleep, marks the last time you can be fully confident that you know what's going on.

The first novel by Raymond Chandler at the age of 51.

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Original Title:	The Big Sleep
ISBN:	0394758285 (ISBN13: 9780394758282)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Philip Marlowe #1
Characters:	Philip Marlowe, Vivian Regan, Carmen Sternwood, General Guy Sternwood, Eddie Mars, Rusty Regan, Arthur Gwynn Geiger, Owen Taylor, Agnes Lozelle, Joe Brody, Harry Jones, Mona Mars, Carol Lundgren, Lash Camino, Bernie Ohls
Setting:	Los Angeles, California(United States) California(United States)
Literary Awards:	Anthony Award Nominee for Best Novel of the Century (2000)

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★★★☆☆½ I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didnt care who knew it. Yeah, so? What do want a medal or something? Sorry to break it to you, Phil, but for rest of us thats known as the status quo. Well, maybe not the shaved part, but damn, its not yet noon and youre bragging about being sober? At least I know now who to blame for all those hard-drinking, wisecracking PIs that followed. Its no wonder future authors would attempt to emulate this guyhes the very definition of cool. And, this

Chandler's 1939 classic crime novel is the first that featured Phillip Marlowe, the famous private detective who would appear in 7 of Chandler's novels. Humphrey Bogart brought him to life on the silver screen in the 1946 production of The Big Sleep. Even though it was written almost 80 years ago, it's not dated, meaning it has an almost modern feel to it. Good writing almost always equals good novel.

599. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe #1), Raymond ChandlerPrivate investigator Philip Marlowe is called to the home of the wealthy and elderly General Sternwood, in the month of October. He wants Marlowe to deal with an attempt by a bookseller named Arthur Geiger to blackmail his wild young daughter, Carmen. She had previously been blackmailed by a man named Joe Brody. Sternwood mentions his other, older daughter Vivian is in a loveless marriage with a man named Rusty Regan, who has disappeared.

This was an interesting experience, and I must admit that I enjoyed the Bogart & Bacall movie much more than the book. (It was fine-tuned by William Faulkner and Leigh Brackett, after all)The early chapters are a bit stilted and forced, but with an almost too-snappy dialogue identical to the movie. 20% ... After a while, Chandler loosens up a bit, and begins to shine. Great stuff now.Wow, I am witnessing Chandler find his true voice. What a feeling!"Youayoua" her throat jammed. I thought she

Reading a hard-boiled detective novel long past the point when I'd already learned lots of things about the hard-boiled detective novel was an interesting experience. Marlowe's blunt, quippy language, his day drinking, and his over-the-top descriptions of women delighted me, not just on their own merits but simply because it was fun to read something that was exactly the way I'd always heard it would be. On the other hand, there were some elements of the book that surprised me. How much of the

A killing reading! PAINT IT BLACK A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. That was the line that hook me when I watched the classic film adaptation, the one produced in 1946, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.While I loved the whole movie, that scene between Marlowe (Bogart) and the character of General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) at the glasshouse (in the beginning of the story) was what hooked me. Its a wonderful dialogue, full of vices, smoking and

4.0 stars. This was the first noir crime fiction book that I ever read and I don't think I could have found a much better place to start. I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy the genre, but decided to test the waters with this classic that introduced the world to the iconic private detective Philip Marlowe. I am very glad I did. This is a fun, fast read and I was immediately sucked in by the superb dialogue, which was both politically incorrect and just slid off the page and into your head.