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Recommend a chandler or comparable book? I read one at random years ago and it was fun

• agentx3r 5y ago
  If you want to try some modern-er noir, American Tabloid by James Ellroy is a wild ride.
• joosters 5y ago
  I'd recommend starting with some of his collections of short stories, like 'The Simple Art of Murder' - https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20140930 https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20140930 or 'Trouble is My Business' - https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20150520 https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20150520
• bloak 5y ago
  Raymond Chandler wrote seven novels. I read somewhere that his favourite was "The long good-bye", but I didn't care for that one so much. I think my favourite was "The lady in the lake", though that's the last of the four Chandler novels that made it into this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Top_100_Crime_Novels_of_All_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Top_100_Crime_Novels_of_Al... I only read "Playback" for completeness: that last one is definitely less interesting than the others. There are also the short stories, some of which were later incorporated into the novels and are therefore not republished so often in their original form. Chandler referred to them as "cannibalised".
• cptnapalm 5y ago
  Maltese Falcon by Hammett
  • pomian 5y ago
    And the movie! A classic still, and always.
    • cptnapalm 5y ago
      You should watch the first adaptation from 1931. While not as good, it does have some of the more risque parts of the book.