The list has divided into camps before about that novel...and
the quirky
Altman film derived from it.
Personally, I'm with you, but it's a fan's novel--the one
where the plot
relaxes even more than usual, characters get more "breathing
space," and
the Chandler vision emerges through Marlowe's musings.
Someday Bill or
someone is going to compile a book of the best hard-boiled
quotations, and
it's going to have plenty of sentences from The Long
Goodbye.
Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>
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