The Big Sleep Audiobook

Quotes

• “Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence.”

  — Ross Macdonald, New York Times bestselling author

• “The language used in this book is often vile, at times so filthy that the publishers have been compelled to resort to the dash, a device seldom employed in these unsqueamish days. As a study in depravity, the story is excellent, with Marlowe standing out as almost the only fundamentally decent person in it.”

  — New York Times

• [Chandler]’s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that’s like ours, but isn’t.

  — Carolyn See

• “Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.

  — Ross Macdonald “Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.

• [T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.

  — Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books

• Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler’s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.

  — Literary Review

• Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.

  — The Boston Book Review

• “Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.

  — Los Angeles Times

• “Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.

  — The New York Times Book Review

• Raymond Chandler is a master.

  — The New York Times “[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.