THE BIG SLEEP by Raymond Chandler | Noir Nights #1

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In this episode, Jordan reviews THE BIG SLEEP by Raymond Chandler, and gives a history of the hardboiled detective genre in literature and film.

~*TIME STAMPS*~
Intro: 00:00
History of the Hardboiled Detective Genre: 1:03
Synopsis: 5:34
What I liked: 6:56
What I didn’t like: 12:47
Mood Mix: 14:26
The Big Idea: 15:19

~*FOLLOW JORDAN & NIKKI*~

~*MUSIC*~
Rescue Mission - Lupus Nocte [via Epidemic Sound]
Our Affair - Jackie Martin [via Epidemic Sound]

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Just revisited this two days ago, and now my favorite reviewer pops up with this

grantbarnes
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From Chandler i haven't read The Big Sleep yet but read Farewell, My Lovely and The Long Goodbye and loved them. Thanks to this video i am going to look for TBS soon. I read Hammett's Red Harvest last year and couldn't stop reading until it was finished. Non-stop action and a very cool story. Great video!

carlosbranca
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Thanks for the review. I’ve meant to read this for years! I’m a big fan of Andrew Klavan’s hard boiled crime novels (His Weiss and Bishop trilogy starting with Dynamite Road is brilliant) and he often references this as a formative book to him.
There’s just something about that old noir style that I love so much. I also appreciate the analysis you brought to the characters in the story too.

iSamwise
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Sorry I'm a bit late here, but glad to see you dipping your toes into the noir genre. It is one I love dearly. I prefer more than the prim and proper English mysteries of someone like Agatha Christie (though I like some of the books of hers that I've read.) Noir is nasty, violent, sexy, and sometimes scary. It's how crime oughta be, and often is as far as I'm concerned.

I am a bit embarrassed to admit I haven't read a lot of the classic noir authors like Chandler or Hammett, though I hope to rectify those sooner or later. Noir has had an odd reputation over the years, not quite genre but not quite literary either. I actually hope to make a video of my own at some point and discuss the genre. Anyway, I don't want to this to get too long. Great video as always.

I have some recommendations if you're interested in a pointer.

Dennis Lehane: I know you already saw my video about him, so I won't say much more.

James Ellroy: LA Confidential

Graham Greene: Brighton Rock

Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress

SA Cosby: Razorblade Tears, Blacktop Wasteland, My Darkest Prayer

Richard Stark's Parker books

Ed Brubaker: Criminal, The Fade Out, Kill or Be Killed

Frank Miller: Batman: Year One, Sin City (The Hard Goodbye and That Yellow Bastard particularly, the rest are take or leave.)

someokiedude
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I have not yet read this novel, but the film adaptation with Humphrey Bogard & Lauren Bacall is very cool!

There is definitely a link between Noir/Hard boiled and Cyberpunk: The use of slang, colorful characters, institutional corruption and the rapid introduction (both the possibilities and fears) of new technologies and social trends (that in hindsight, we often take for granted today). The PTSD of WW1 & WW2 for Noir/Hard-boiled with that of the Cold War (or a WW3 or WW4) in Cyberpunk.

I have Dashiell Hammett’s “Red Harvest” (which would inspire Akira Kurosawa’s Samurai Film “Yujimbo” and Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Western “For a Fistfull of Dollar”) and James Elroy’s Neo-Noir “LA Confidential” (Love the film adaptation!) on my TBR, so I am looking forward to hear your thoughts on those novels on “Noir Nights”!

MacScarfield
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Excellent review! Have you read any of the Mike Hammer books, by Mickey Spillane?

MichaelRSchultheiss
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There’s a famous old story that, when adapting the novel to the screen, Chandler was asked to clarify several plot points, whom killed whom, etc., and he couldn’t do it and was totally unbothered by this ignorance. So yeah, it’s messy, and Chandler never really gets good at plotting. But he’s *so good* at everything else that it almost doesn’t matter to me.

Beech
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Hardboiled detective novels are virgin territory for me so thank you for putting it on my radar. I think I’ll pass on “The Big Sleep” based on your review and instead go for “The Maltese Falcon” based on more positive reviews.

By the way, you mentioned liking stories about rare books. I recently read “The Club Dumas” by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, and it definitely qualifies. Apparently it was adapted into the film “The Ninth Gate” starring Jonny Depp (haven’t seen it). I enjoyed the novel well enough to recommend it…I’d say 3.5 of 5 stars. Check it out, you may be tempted.

nightlogic