Philip Marlowe, Book 6
by Raymond Chandler
Recommended by 4 notable people, including Jordan Peterson and Andy Greenwald
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The Long Goodbye is a classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hardboiled crime.Downandout 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: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox co...
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Mystery & Crime, and Fiction.
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James Franco
“Chandler, "The Long Goodbye;" Thornberg, "Dreamland;" Hughes, "In a Lonely Place;" Ellroy, "LA Confidential." And”
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Consider City of Quartz by Mike Davis. Recommended by 3 sources.
“City of Quartz reads like a forensic excavation of Los Angeles: archival reportage, policy history and polemical analysis piled together to show who benefits from growth and who gets pushed aside. Its useful part is the dense catalog of examples — land deals, policing, urban renewal episodes — that tie local institutions to broader economic forces. Annoyances are the repeated rhetorical flourishes and a sometimes fierce, judgmental tone; readers seeking detached description or step-by-step policy prescriptions may find it unsatisfying.”
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