[PJ-Comix]

If you aren't familiar with Raymond Chandler, here are a few quotes by him. No author could handle American colloquialisms like Raymond Chandler. BTW, a couple of Chandler's short stories ("Trouble Is My Business" and "Red Wind") are the next Freeper Reading Club assignment. Optional are any of the other works of Chandler you want to read. If you want to join the Freeper Reading Club so you can get in on the Raymond Chandler Discussion due on Februrary 24, Freepmail me and I'll put you on the Ping List.

[Temple Drake]

awesome. sign me up.

[Maximilian]

Raymond Chandler bump!

A lot of these quotes sound cliched now, but that's only because the genre he created has become part of the American idiom. It's kind of like the student who said he didn't like Hamlet because it was filled with so many cliches.

You found some unusual sources. Chandler wasn't very prolific. I don't think I've read these short stories.

BTW, are you also a fan of "The Singing Detective"?

[APBaer]

Didn't he also have one about a broad that would
make a bishop kick out a stained glass window?

[octobersky]

bump

[Doctor Stochastic]

Not bad since he started writing as a British-schooled poet.

I am currently re-reading the Chandler Novels again. (Next is Hammet then the complete Perry Masons.)

[Savage Beast]

Here's more of that wonderful description from Farewell My Lovely:

“She reached into her bag and slid a photograph across the desk, a five-by-three glazed still.

“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. She was wearing street clothes that looked black and white, and a hat to match and she was a little haughty, but not too much. Whatever you needed, wherever you happened to be—she had it.”

And here's an equally wonderful exerpt from the same wonderful novel:

“The man in the back seat made a sudden flashing movement that I sensed rather than saw. A pool of darkness opened at my feet and was far, far deeper than the blackest night.

“I dived into it. It had no bottom.”

And these too:

“She hung up, leaving me with a curious feeling of having talked to somebody that didn’t exist.”

“Proof,” I said, “is always a relative thing. It’s an overwhelming balance of probabilities.”

I love Raymond Chandler.

[Savage Beast]

I also love Jane Austin.

[jordan8]

You see, I wanted to be a detective too. It only took brains, courage, and a gun...and I had the gun. - My Favorite Brunette

[Little John]

A great collection of quotes ..... I'd join the club but will be away when the discussion starts ..... Although he didn't have Chandler's command of the language, I also really enjoyed Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels ..... the sexiest descriptions of women that never ever were foul..... but really gave one's imagination a thorough workout ......

Regards

[Jonah Hex]

Chandler's great!

I also like John MacDonald's Travis Mcgee novels. It always amazed me to see him spend pages of character development, only to eliminate the character off-screen with a quick violent death. It always made you feel like the character's death was such a waste.

Which, after all, aren't all undeserved murders in reality?