Showing posts with label Raymond Chandler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raymond Chandler. Show all posts
Saturday, 11 July 2020

Portrait of Marlowe by Chandler

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I have started reading this book again and in it I found a description of iconic private eye Philip Marlowe by his author Raymond Chandler...
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Monday, 24 February 2020

"To swap punches with a power shovel"

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" I need a man good looking enough to pick up a dame who has a sense of class, but he's got to be tough enough to swap punches with...
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Saturday, 17 November 2018

Marlowe and Mozart

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I am finishing The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler , which features private eye and cynical hero Philip Marlowe . In one chapter, he is h...
Thursday, 8 November 2018

#Noirvember: time for crime (fiction)

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When November comes, I change my reading genre and go from horror to crime fiction (which is actually the main genre I read all year round)....
Friday, 9 March 2018

The Long Goodbye

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Sometimes I wonder if Vraie Fiction should not be renamed Crime Fiction. Anyway, I recently finished a novel which I wanted to recommend t...
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Sunday, 21 January 2018

Dorothy Malone and The Big Sleep

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I learned something quite sad yesterday: Dorothy Malone passed away . I only knew her from a single scene in The Big Sleep , where she play...
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Sunday, 5 February 2017

Reading The Big Sleep again

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" It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of...
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Thursday, 14 August 2014

The death of a femme fatale

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You might think Vraie Fiction is turning into an obituary blog since the 12th of August . But I learned yesterday that the legendary Lauren...
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Sunday, 10 June 2012

The Big Sleep (just because)

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I was just thinking about it: I am in the mood to watch some old black and white crime movies, some good old fashioned stuff full of atmos...
Monday, 2 January 2012

An orchid in the snow

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" Sternwood : I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider. The orchids are an excuse for the heat. Do you like orchids?   M...
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Thursday, 18 August 2011

A crime fiction archetype

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Since this is a blog of fiction, and sometimes a blog of literature, I thought I would put a quote about an archetype character in crime fic...
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Thursday, 14 July 2011

Why I read crime fiction

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Leigh Russell recently blogged about why she writes crime fiction . I don't write any (yet), but I thought that the appeal of crime fict...
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Thursday, 5 May 2011

What to read where

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This is a follow up of this post . I thought about it quite a lot, and a recent post by Leigh Russell got me thinking about it again (and b...
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Sunday, 21 November 2010

Orchids, corruption and literature

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My father grows orchids and I took this picture last time we visited my parents. I have been wanting to put it here for a while to accompan...
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Tuesday, 3 June 2008

Une certaine nausée

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Raymond Chandler a déjà dit de Montréal (je l'ai appris de Kevin Burton Smith dans cet article ) qu'elle était " almost as cr...