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The Long Goodbye
(64 reviews)
(1718 Readers)

Raymond Chandler

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Paul
few weeks ago
Perhaps Chandler's best, a more melancholy Marlowe tale where the sardonic private eye is not so on the ball, not so in control. Sad stuff.
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A reader
few weeks ago
Everything a detective novel should be and amazingly well written.
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A reader
few weeks ago
Excellent, and timeless.
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A reader
few weeks ago
nihilistic, jaded and decadant
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A reader
few weeks ago
The first of the series I read, maybe not the best place to start. A lot of complex characters and relationships. The pill- prescribing doctor reminds me of the Michael Jackson case.
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A reader
few weeks ago
I love this author. He wrote about a look that a woman gave to a man and he described it as " she gave a look to him that should have stuck at least four inches out of his back" he's great at details. It's a novel set in the fifties, a great time for mysteries.
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A reader
few weeks ago
"There's a perculiar thing about money," he went on. "In large quantities it tends to have a life of its own... The power of money becomes very difficult to control. Man has always been a venal animal. The grown of populations, the huge costs of wars, the incessant pressure of confiscatory taxation - all these things make thim more and more venal. The average man is...more
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Stacia
few weeks ago
Great classic noire. Chandler crafts a sentence like no one else.
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A reader
few weeks ago
Amazing! "The Long Goodbye" is my favorite Raymond Chandler book so far.
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A reader
few weeks ago
My first exposure to Chandler and I have few complaints. He's easily the voice of modern crime fiction and ahead of his time. Hammet is perhaps the grandfather of the genre but Chandler is obviously the Father and a good one at that. My only complaint is that it runs long in some scenes. (Do we really need to read him hunting down three seperate doctors on one clue?). But it's...more
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The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler
  • ISBN-10: 155800002X
  • ISBN-13: 9781558000025
    • The Long Goodbye
    The Long Goodbye
    Raymond Chandler
  • ISBN-10: 1590070968
  • ISBN-13: 9781590070963
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    Raymond Chandler
  • ISBN-10: 1597770574
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