The Long Goodbye

To say goodbye is to die a little. There are some books that just feel good to have on your dashboard, never too far from your fingertips to read in the tiny gaps between obligations and responsibility. The type of book that rides shotgun and keeps you company through the darker hours, through lonely......more

Hardboiled dick Philip Marlow orders a few gimlets and uses chum as a derogatory term. When's the last time you casually lit a cigarette, tossed back a drink, then looked someone dead in the eye and said, Listen, chum...? After about the third time he did it, I felt an urge to bring it back into my ev......more

Philip Marlowe a cynical shamus looks down at the parking lot of The Dancers Club, watching a drunk be put into his car a silver Rolls Royce, but the annoyed valet has trouble, the left leg refuses to be moved inside, instead remains firmly on the ground. Where the rest of the intoxicated man will s......more

This is the sixth and last of the full-length novels that Raymond Chandler wrote featuring his iconic detective, Philip Marlowe. It's also the most personal in that Chandler seems to have based two of the characters, Terry Lennox and Roger Wade, at least in part on himself. At the book opens, Marlowe......more

Obra maestra de la literatura. De lectura imprescindible. Literature masterpiece. Essential reading.......more