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Sh*t My Dad Says by Halpern, Justin | 11 | 13.25% | |
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler | 22 | 26.51% | |
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett | 10 | 12.05% | |
Don't Sleep There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett | 6 | 7.23% | |
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman | 5 | 6.02% | |
Life of Pi by Yann Martel | 3 | 3.61% | |
Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster | 6 | 7.23% | |
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak | 11 | 13.25% | |
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell | 7 | 8.43% | |
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland | 2 | 2.41% | |
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08-01-2010, 06:31 PM | #166 | |
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Jon, you are being both overly zealous and silly here. |
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beppe, some writers never equal their first novel let alone surpass it. I can't think of an example offhand but I am sure that's the case.
Are you saying Chandler is a great writer or is that the bird's judgment? d |
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I like his stories, his humor and ironic attitude. The prose is top notch, the details amazing. The pendulum, what master Kitano calls the building and release of tension, is practiced with great ability. When you see a movie like Tarantino's Jackie Brown, an absolute masterpiece, there is Chandler written all over it. So his influence is alive and rolling. |
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08-01-2010, 08:36 PM | #170 |
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I wish Earle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason books were available as ebooks. Especially the earlier ones, where he broke laws left and right in the pursuit of the truth and was generally a hair's breath away from being disbarred. Any of them would have made a great book club selection.
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08-01-2010, 08:58 PM | #172 |
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Maybe the powers that be are planning a movie or something, and are holding back to books until they know they could command a higher price. Who knows?
If they did do a movie, I wonder who they could possibly get to fill Raymond Burr's shoes? He was nearly perfect; except in those early books, Mason sometimes got physical with the bad guys—something I could never envision Burr doing. |
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This guy? he is a very fine actor in the right age bracket.
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Chandler is fine, but he never wrote anything as good as 'The Maltese Falcon'. Hammett was the master.
(BTW, virtually *all* the lines in the film come straight out of the book. You can hold it open while watching the film and follow the text, almost as if you were to have the script to Hamlet on your knees at the Old Vic). |
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Hammett was indeed the parent, the inspirer. Our local followers, among whom Rock Lobster is not the least talented, could have their say about this point. Hammet versus Chandler in 6 rounds. Fine match. |
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John Houston directed and scripted it. The cast was is not stellar, but very interesting. |
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