On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Mark Sullivan wrote:
> I had written:
> "But as for puzzles or mysteries, couldn't care
less.
> Maybe Chandler's "The Long Goodbye", since it's
so
> tightly woven."
> Juri, do you really think Long Goodbye was much of a
mystery (in the
> whodunnit sense)? Not even Chandler thought
that:
Well, maybe I should read it again (it would be fourth or
fifth time). Maybe I was thinking that the plot and tensions
between Terry Lennox and his wife and the Wade family was
intriguing. It was not confusing like these things usually
are with Chandler (for example, in "Farewell My Lovely" - I
just don't understand what's going on in there). It's so
carefully constructed that it amazes me. I know the quote
from Chandler, but I think he's wrong: the mystery is not
obvious.
Or maybe I am just dumb and don't get it.
Juri
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