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Originally Posted by SomeSteve
...even started rereading The Big Sleep, but although it had been so long since I read it the first time, everything seemed so familiar that after a couple of chapters my attention flagged and I fell prey to the siren song of something else and was lured away.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Are you that way with the rest of his books?
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I think that's the only Chandler novel I've read (and the records I
used to keep confirm this), though I've had paperback copies of them all for years.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I highly, highly recommend the movie The Long Goodbye. It's not very Chandler-esque and Elliot Gould isn't the Marlowe from the books (or maybe he is, but was pulled from the '40's to the '70's), but it's a great movie.
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Even though it's been so long since I saw it -- and I went to it two or three times when it was in theaters -- a few scenes have stuck with me, such as when he was in the interrogation room at the police station. Maybe I'll have to see if I can get it on disc.