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“Great re-read. Marlowe's weathered pluck is infectious.”
C.D. Stephens wrote this review Tuesday, September 22 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Good, fun, easy read”
becca. g wrote this review Tuesday, April 14 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Typical Raymond Chandler fare with Phillip Marlowe making fun of anyone he thinks is slow intellectually and lusting after the young secretaries. Good fast read.”
Dianne K wrote this review Wednesday, March 25 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“One of the darkest of the series and one of the least known Chandlers. No movie here. As usual, Marlowe gets himself into trouble just asking questions, this time for a girl looking for her missing brother. Marlowe's travels through and among the various strata of L.A. class makes for a fascinating view of this 20th-century frontier city.”
pearl wrote this review Friday, September 12 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Perhaps the most refreshing thing about Chandler is his female characters. The standard M.O. for hard-boiled detectives is to meet a handful of femme fatales, alluring seductresses whose job is to distract the modern-day knight from his imperfect quest for justice. Yet in Chandler, women tend to be something else--flesh-and-blood people, no better or worse on average than anyone else, simply trying to get by in a thoroughly corrupted world.
Chestertonian_Rambler wrote this review Friday, August 1 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
The Little Sister is a relatively simple mystery of two sisters, one full of innocence and one mired in corruption and manipulation. But of course it is more than that, and Chandler's expert characterizations make it one of his best.”
“Brilliant! excellent narrative. very witty.”
ruth w wrote this review Saturday, March 1 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Chandler's the voice we all strive for when first we think we'll be writers. But no one gets there. Unique.”
Tobias B wrote this review Monday, January 28 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“a little bit demitasse, a little
mundivagant wrote this review Thursday, December 27 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
bit come hither
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