Welcome to Litsy!

Two thumbs down. I've never read Chandler, so I didn't realize I would have to muddle through blatant misogyny. The hostility with which he writes about his female characters is nauseating. And don't give me the "he's a product of his time" garbage. I've read plenty of literature from the time that doesn't normalize slapping women around and make every female character insipid and ridiculous. It's gross.

Time for #ThreeListThursday !

My favorites from this first 100 are:

1. Back To The Future.
2. The Big Sleep.
3. Charade.

Thanks for sharing @dabbe #TLT

https://www.listchallenges.com/litsy-afis-100-years-100-thrills-up-to-2001

1. Philip Marlowe is a HARD BOILED detective. 🤩
2. I ask my husband to make them for me.
3. Egg roll wrappers are dipped in eggs to make them crispy when fried. This may or may not account for the name. #deviledeggday

#BookBinge
#SmokeOnCover
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I think “smoke“, I think of Bogie in three movies that were originally books: THE MALTESE FALCON, TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, and this one: THE BIG SLEEP.

My big sleeper & favourite work colleague 🐈‍⬛

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1. Crime fiction with a more cynical, fatalistic (I would say "realistic") worldview. Usually features a morally ambiguous protagonist that spends as much time fighting against institutional power (the police, city hall, etc.) as they do fighting crime.
2. Tagged. Raymond Chandler is one of my favorite writers of any genre.

Tag @RaeLovesToRead @IuliaC @ozma.of.oz @julesG

Don‘t you think the sisters in these two books have much in common 🥸 #sisters

#QuotsyJul21 Day 12: #Austere

I love Raymond Chandler quotes. 😆

#body #QuotsyJun21 @TK-421

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love the movie The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart but it is confusing. So I thought reading the book would clear some things up. Well the book has just as many twists and turns and I loved every minute of it 😂 Was it confusing at times? Sure. But it was wonderful! I cannot wait to go back and watch the movie because there are some differences. This was my #bookspinbingo No. 18 pick.

"Meet Mr Larry Cobb,' Vivian said. 'Mister Cobb - Mister Marlowe.'

I grunted.

"Mr Cobb was my escort,' she said. Such a nice escort, Mr Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him sober. Somebody should see him sober. I mean, just for the record. So it could become a part of history, that brief flashing moment, soon buried in time, but never forgotten when Larry Cobb was sober.'

I love The Big Sleep with Bogie & Bacall, so I had high hopes for this. Unfortunately, the narrator was mostly atrocious and it really detracted from my enjoyment of the story. Perhaps I‘ll try it again one day in book format. 3⭐️

#audiobook
#classic

My first hard-boiled crime and probably my last. Too many women being slapped around. All the different "rackets" were trying to outdo each other and it became very confusing. I guess I could see the appeal during the Depression. The wealthy criminals were finally getting their due from amoral private investigators. Just not for me, but I appreciate @jenniferw88 bringing the genre to my attention. #jennyis30

#ReadwithMrBook @MrBook debut novel

About orchids...

"They are nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men. And their perfume has the rotten sweetness of a prostitute."

Um, one man's opinion.

Everyone comes to The Big Sleep for Chandler‘s descriptions of Los Angeles, and he was certainly an evocative place writer, but I personally loved his characterisations most of all. I got a lot of smirks out of descriptions like: “He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn‘t owe too much money” = brilliant! Full review here: http://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/the-big-sleep-raymond-chandler/

#quotsyoct19 | day 2

I‘m a couple days behind as usual. But I liked this quote.

“The air was thick, wet, steamy and larded with the cloying smell of tropical orchids in bloom. The glass walls and roof were heavily misted and big drops of moisture splashed down on the plants. The light had an unreal greenish colour, like light filtered through an aquarium tank. The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.”

Rightly an iconic book, and a template for the genre of crime fiction. Incredibly smart and snappy dialogue.

I would gather that author Raymond Chandler didn‘t like women or gay people very much, which was sadly typical of the time it was written.

Women especially seem to be described as beasts. They do a lot of hissing when angry. 😾

#MayScavengerHunt
✅By an author who shares your birthday
This one is a tough one! Never thought I'd be able to find any author who was born on 23rd of July but here he is!!! #RaymondChandler and Not only I've found the author, I've also by chance found out I actually have a copy of his book! I got this from a second hand bookstore many years ago cause I collect this edition. Now I feel that I'm destined to read this!
#penguinclassics #bibliophile

📚 - The Big Sleep

🎬 - Dreamcatcher

🎵- Sleep Well Beast, The National

#manicmonday @JoScho

The book I'm currently packing around with me, in physical copy, is this classic detective noir, in my handy dandy book sleeve from @Kayla.Adriena ! (I'm also packing The Song of Achilles in e-book! Which is wonderful by the way!)

#packingpages @WhiskeyMistress @ErinSueGreads

This description and exchange made me LOL!

One, is being called durable looking a compliment? Two, my son is 6'5", he hates how often people comment on his height. So this response was funny. I need to suggest it to Dylan. ?

This book actually contains the line, “Hold me, you beast!” and I don‘t think it‘s meant to be funny. #awkwardreads #literaryluck

“I was neat, clean, shaved and sober—and I didn‘t care who knew it”🎙

Two games I'll follow tonight while finishing « Hold Me » which is quite good. My latest acquisition is an art print from the Disney princess noir remix series from Astor Alexander. They are all amazing.

https://society6.com/astoralexander

I fell asleep and forgot to switch off the stopwatch. 😴

I'm actually only 19 hours into the #24B4Monday #readathon.

@TheReadingMermaid

#septemberdanes I‘d say the big sleep is the ultimate #deepsleep but there is no coming back from that.Love this book and the classic Bogart/Bacall film, can‘t recall if I ever saw the 1970s remake with Robert Mitchum playing Marlowe.

“I was neat, clean, shaved, and sober, and I didn‘t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.”

One paragraph in and I‘m already loving this!

Made me want to become an alcoholic dick. If you ask any of my friends though I‘m already both of those things.

There's something about Chandler's prose that is just stunning. His metaphors are just... wow. A favourite description was talking about heavy rain falling like one of those crystal beaded curtains.

I first read this for my crime fiction course in uni, and it's one of the only books from that course I thought was really great.

Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form itself on the edge of consciousness.

#beachreads #fog #breakfast #coffee #books #ocean

A fun summer read. But, MAN, does Chandler not hold up in 2018. You slapped her? Seriously? And, "she didn't mind the slap?" That seems unlikely. Yeah, I realize that the historical-critical method is a tough application here, but wow.

All over the map…but what a map.
My first Chandler!

It was ok. Some great writing but I did really struggle with the way the women were portrayed and treated. Sign of the times it was written in, I know, but it still grated. I did enjoy the old detective feel of it though and will watch the 1945 movie version with Humphrey Bogart. Been a long time since I‘ve watched an old old movie.

The second audiobook I‘ve picked for the weekend. I‘ll have to ignore my family a lot over the next 48 hours. Sounds good to me! ☺️

Written in 1939, this is one of the novel that defines LA in the 30-40 for me. Along side The Black Dahlia, LA Confidential, I felt oddly comfortable in this bleak, noirish universe Chandler described. Marlowe is a sleek, tough private eye, we follow him trying to tie up the loose ends of a somewhat horrid family secret. I loved the plot, I loved the fact that you don't know anything more about Marlowe at the end of the book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Hump day, it gets better after mid-week. What miracle a good night sleep is. Much better day today by a mile. #happinessisresistance

#FavoriteDetectiveAgent

I have a LOT of Detectives that I love. But if you want a true, gritty, hard-boiled gumshoe, I have to go with Phillip Marlowe. Chandler‘s writing is fast, zippy and absolutely what you think of when you think of noir. Marlowe‘s one-liners could only be pulled off by a man like Bogey. ❤️
#MarchMadness

#challengecheckin #192019challenge

I‘m loving listening to noir classics. They work great as audiobooks. Any recommendations?

I was very surprised to have a bit of a hard time with this one. I looove the movie (big Bogey fan) and had always wanted to read it. But a lot of implied things (I‘m guessing because of censure at the time), slang and just the attitude and portrayal of women like cardboard cutouts just meant for deception and sex, were hard on me. Great noir phrases and ambience, but I think I‘ll stick with the movie.

Look! Look! My first completed novel of 2018! I've never read a noir crime book before, but this was so fun! I listened to the BBC audiodrama of this one too, and I highly recommend it! This book was 3.5 stars from me

“It was about eleven o‘clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills...” #firstlines

Sick in bed. Enjoying some Chandler...

Bedside Drawer #tbr