well, chandler's other books although very fine are not really in the same inspired league as 'Long Goodbye'... but as they ARE enjoyable i would say try 'Farewell My Lovely' next.
I do also very much like Hammett's underrated The Dain Curse and the novels of Jim Thompson. (e.g. The Killer Inside Me).
But - and i think it might just be me - the nearest to the 'poetry' of Long Goodbye that i've found in other writers of (roughly) that period is probably Nathaniel West's Day of the Locust and Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night.
Gosh i sold like a teacher! oops! i get carried away.
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Date: 2009-07-28 06:19 pm (UTC)well, chandler's other books although very fine are not really in the same inspired league as 'Long Goodbye'... but as they ARE enjoyable i would say try 'Farewell My Lovely' next.
I do also very much like Hammett's underrated The Dain Curse and the novels of Jim Thompson. (e.g. The Killer Inside Me).
But - and i think it might just be me - the nearest to the 'poetry' of Long Goodbye that i've found in other writers of (roughly) that period is probably Nathaniel West's Day of the Locust and Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night.
Gosh i sold like a teacher! oops! i get carried away.