To: PJ-Comix
Speaking of your book club, let me remind everybody that your reading assignment for this month is the short stories of Raymond Chandler. I ordered the
"Everyman's Library" collection of all his short stories and should get it sometime this week. It was only $19.25 - not a bad value at all for 1,344 pages! I won't have time obviously to read the entire book before our discussion but I'll at least read the two stories you assigned and a couple of the others.
60 posted on
01/29/2003 7:38:15 PM PST by
SamAdams76
('Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens')
To: SamAdams76
Nobody handles the American idiom like Raymond Chandler. Why? Because Chandler approached it like a foreign language. He was American but raised in Britain and had a British accent. When he returned to the States, he was fascinated by the way Americans spoke. He didn't take it for granted and it shows in his works.
70 posted on
01/29/2003 7:41:55 PM PST by
PJ-Comix
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