#annotated big sleep

[jawbonejoe]

I know I’m the most ‘Marlowe is a dumb fag’ pilled mf in the universe but it’s really sticking out to me as I read this annotated BS. I think the close read the annotators are following is valid and it’s nice to have the context of what Chandler thought (and they do point out the parts where Marlowe is wrong or screwy). But my long held contention is that Marlowe is a reliable narrator about everything but himself, and while he’s meant to be a paragon of truth (which I’m willing to admit he is 90% of the time) the thing that makes him such a great protag and a stand out from other hard boiled detectives is that despite being Mr Truthiness he’s gritting his teeth and clinging to a grand lie about himself at all times

[universitybookstore]

To think that all these years I’ve loved CHINATOWN and viewed it over and over, never realizing it was an homage to the very first Raymond Chandler novel to hit America, THE BIG SLEEP. The number of similarities between the two stories is not coincidental! Here’s your chance to read a book that set new rules for detective fiction when it rocketed to popularity. From Ross Macdonald and Jim Thompson to Andrea Camilleri and Georges Simenon, mystery writers ever since have been covering ground that private detective Philip Marlowe first introduced to the world.

THE ANNOTATED BIG SLEEP

by Raymond Chandler

Regular price $25

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THE ORIGINAL TOUGH DETECTIVE’S FIRST CASE

Raymond Chandler’s first Philip Marlowe mystery is where a whole American tradition began. Tough-talking, gun-toting detectives and sexy blondes who love courting danger became staples in a genre Chandler helped invent, taking on all the glitz and heady corruption of Los Angeles in its prime.

This novel has influenced every mystery and crime writer to follow him, right up to the entire plot being re-imagined as Chinatown. Twice filmed, once with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, once with Robert Mitchum, its where the stereotypes came from before they were stereotypes.

This version is so full of footnotes and photos that the novel opens up like never before. And it still reads like gangbusters eighty years later.

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[jawbonejoe]

Agnes Lozelle, my Lozelle’s namesake, has finally entered in name and for once the annotations have interesting things to say about her

[jawbonejoe]

Homies please help my jaw fell through the floor into the office basement garage can someone send it back up?

[jawbonejoe]

Me: My Norton Critical edition of Moby-Dick is the only book I’ve really highlighted, tho I’ve dogearred a few pages of the Annotated Big Sleep.

Eddie Mars: *Appears from the first time along w his ‘thick gray eyebrows [with] that indefinably sporty look*

Me: *Grabs the big pink highlighter*

[jawbonejoe]

The annotated Big Sleep is trying to convince me that Marlowe ain’t an alcoholic, on account of Chandler (a notorious alcoholic) said he [Marlowe] did not have a drinking problem. And, man, we all fucking read what we read