Review - The Big Sleep

[wilderthan]

Another book for Crime Fiction! I really, really liked this one. Raymond Chandler has a hell of a style, and that's mostly why it gets five stars. The plot made me shrug a little, didn't impress me that much, and the characters were nigh on all insane. I followed the plot well enough, but not to the point where I could figure things out for myself. Guess I'm not detective material...

Anyway, it gets five stars because the style kept on making me sit up and take notice, over and over again. I thought it was amazing. It's in first person, so all the imagery -- which seems pretty fresh to me, reading it now, years after it was published, and was probably even fresher back when it was first published -- adds to character as well. I should have noted down more of the lines I liked, but so many struck me.

Getting a couple more of Raymond Chandler's books.

I'm really glad I'm taking this Crime Fiction class.

Comments

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

You make me want to revisit Mr. Chandler. :-) Have you tried Elmore Leonard yet?

[wilderthan.livejournal.com]

No.