Trouble Is My Business
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.64 (872 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1597770612 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-05-09 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard's signature style. . Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he's one of the 20th century's top scribes, period. A handsome set for a reasonable price
Trouble is a Must Buy Raymond Chandler can write. In "Trouble" he described a fat, well dressed woman as having eyes like shoe buttons and skin like wet bird suet. That;s why he made a living writing gritty detective novels. The first paragraph of "Trouble" is worth the price of the book. Chandler's writing is dar, fast-paced, and full of surprises. For example, the "pretty girl" in "Trouble" might be petite and fetching, but she is as dangerous and destructive as she is beautiful. There is only one downside to Chandler: he uses obsolete, 1930's slang. which is impossible to decipher. His Depression "smack talk" should advance the plo. Booze and Lip Donald F. Kaminski I've always enjoyed Raymond Chandler and some of his stories are better than others. This particular book is a collection of four short stories about Philip Marlowe. What is phenomenal about the stories is the use of slang. I thought I was up on all the usage for the period, but this just blew me away. The stories are fast paced simply because Chandler had to compress plots that otherwise would have stretched out into novel length. The other aspect of the tough detective that defies my ability to comprehend is the amount of booze this guy can consume without becoming woozy. In one episode, Marlowe gets beaten up . Reading Chandler is like eating the best cake of your life - utterly delicious Raymond Chandler is my favorite writer of all time. His stories are interesting, his hero is a bit too good to be true -- but his descriptions and the underlying human feelings that lie beneath the tough exterior of our detective Phillip Marlowe is excellent. There is one scene that gets me in this anthology of short stories: Marlowe is being held up at gun point by a bad guy and Marlowe says, "I wasn't scared. I was paralyzed." That is the kind of emotion most of us can relate to. Chandler writes in a somewhat noir fashion and uses the racist terms of the time (19Reading Chandler is like eating the best cake of your life - utterly delicious Michele Nachum Raymond Chandler is my favorite writer of all time. His stories are interesting, his hero is a bit too good to be true -- but his descriptions and the underlying human feelings that lie beneath the tough exterior of our detective Phillip Marlowe is excellent. There is one scene that gets me in this anthology of short stories: Marlowe is being held up at gun point by a bad guy and Marlowe says, "I wasn't scared. I was paralyzed." That is the kind of emotion most of us can relate to. Chandler writes in a somewhat noir fashion and uses the racist terms of the time (1940s/1950s) -- but Chandler was not racist himself. 0s/1950s) -- but Chandler was not racist himself
In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos, gets a line on some stolen jewels with a reward attached, and stumbles across a murder victim who may have been an extortionist.