ELLROY READS - The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Love anything by Raymond Chandler. Lady in the Lake is great.Also love Dashielle Hammett. Have you tired Maltese Falcon? For the genre, pretty perfectly written. Best wishes with you reading choices and to your channel. Happy reading.

[@stevenpowell6791]

@@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk Hi there, yes I've read The Maltese Falcon. It's my favourite Hammett, but Red Harvest is Ellroy's favourite which is why I covered it in an earlier episode. Thanks for the good wishes. Hope you enjoy the channel.

[@Apestrife]

I've read some Chandler. I remember liking the story of Long goodbye, but I'm not the biggest fan of that almost every sentence Raymond wrote "sound tough". Quickly lost it's charm and punch for me. But I really like film The big sleep with Bogart'n'Bacall. It has all these undercurrents of things the film cannot show and only allude to. For example the two book stores. First with a hidden backroom where nervous men enters/leaves, and in the second book store on the other side of the street Marlowe get's seduced by the store keeper with rollicking innocent exchanges and pulled curtains. It's what is (almost innocently) not there. And reading (I did so recently, thanks to this episode) Brown's Requiem I had a similar experience as with the film. It felt a little held back (much thanks to the following books) , but in a good and charming way. In it's "What's not there", or if it's "Not there yet". Not sure. But I liked it. Especially it's caddie setting. A fun debut.

[@stevenpowell6791]

@@Apestrife Ellroy has vacillated on his admiration for this one. Sometimes he's embarrassed by it, but at other times he has accepted it for what it is, a fine debut in which he was learning his craft. It still reads well today.