Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter.
In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published just seven full novels during his lifetime (though an eighth in progress at his death was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but Playback have been realized into motion pictures, some several times. In the year before he died, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died on March 26, 1959, in La Jolla, California.
Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature, and is considered by many to be a founder, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers, of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. Chandler's Philip Marlowe, along with Hammett's Sam Spade, are considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective," both having been played on screen by Humphrey Bogart, whom many considered to be the quintessential Marlowe.
Some of Chandler's novels are considered to be important literary works, and three are often considered to be masterpieces: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949), and The Long Goodbye (1953). The Long Goodbye is praised within an anthology of American crime stories as "arguably the first book since Hammett's The Glass Key, published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery"
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.
"Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence."
--Ross Macdonald
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评分 评分我是不大看侦探书的,我怕看了会睡不着,就像不大看侦探电影。 所以在看和不看之间停停走走了一个月,想着《漫长的告别》到底是何等的好书,让我们的村上村树看了有15遍之多,终于在一个无书可看的夜晚,我打开了《漫长的告别》,继而被钱德勒深深吸引。 太好看了,不...
评分如果你停止思考,你就输了----雷蒙德钱德勒 好像他是说过这么句话。 街道的样子,房子的样子,管家的样子,主人的样子,他的动作,他的心思,很容可以在脑海里形成一个画面(参照老的好莱坞电影和男女影星),卡门口中发出的嘶嘶声,那个男人嗡嗡的声音,好像就在耳边回荡。...
硬汉侦探小说,很硬很酷。抄几句: If you want to pick lead out of your belly, get in my way. P64 -------- "You are broke, eh?" "I been shaking to nickles together for a month, trying to get them to mate." P83 -------- A gray Plymouth sedan tailed me away from the City Hall. I gave it a chance to catch up with me on a quiet street. It refused the offer, so I shook i
评分真喜欢他的比喻~
评分我竟然喜欢看这么misogynistic的书哈哈
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评分2010.9.2 不知道是念书的人的声音太低沉还是怎么的,故事不是特别激动人心。悬念也不算特别惊人。情节比较紧张。与其说是推理玄疑,还不如说是动作惊怵。最大的亮点是dialogue,拍电影应该帅极了。
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