
The Long Good-Bye
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Narrated by:
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Scott Brick
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By:
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Raymond Chandler
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness. It all depends on where you sit and what your own private score is. I didn't have one. I didn't care.
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: private investigator Philip Marlowe. He is willing to help a man down on his luck, but later Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe is drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?
©1988 Raymond Chandler (P)2020 Penguin AudioCritic reviews
"Chandler gave birth to a different kind of detective." (The Times)
"Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence." (Daily Telegraph)
"One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain." (Sunday Times)
Otherwise, good value…
Good performance - lose the music
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Having said all that it’s still a great book, and worth getting especially if the genre is to you taste.
Good Story, but a bit too long
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Great narration of a classic.
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the music between chapters was a little cheesy but that is being picky
I rationed the chapters to make it last longer
Superb
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The previous reader had a genuine understanding of the hard-boiled style and lyricism needed to read Chandler, I have no idea why they swapped readers.
That said this is still a great listen.
Previous reader was better.
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an interesting portrait of late '50s Californian life.
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Intrusive music
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