The Big Sleep

De: Raymond Chandler

Narrado por: Scott Brick

One of the most acclaimed works of crime fiction ever written, The Big Sleep is the first novel featuring Raymond Chandler’s iconic creation Philip Marlowe, hailed as the “quintessential urban private eye” (Los Angeles Times).

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

“Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.” —Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book Review

When old man Sternwood, a dying millionaire, hires Philip Marlowe to expose the blackmailer of one of his troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than simple extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, and seduction are just a few of the complications standing in the way of completing the task at hand. And just as Marlowe feels he’s getting ahold of the situation, he discovers the first body.

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"Raymond Chandler is a master." —The New York Times

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

“Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.” —Los Angeles Times

“Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.” —The Boston Book Review

“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

“[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

“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.” —Erle Stanley Gardner

“Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.” —Paul Auster

“[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

Fun but Confusing

Performance was perfect, it's fun to listen to Chandler's writing and turns of phrase but trying to keep up with all the twists and turns and who is who is almost impossible.

Outstanding

I have become a big fan of these works in Recent years and adds to the enjoyment first experience with the movie.

Philip Marlowe

The big sleep. You got that right and as a classic gumshoe he wants to be better and in the end he was. A true great Noir

My favorite Chandler story

A very good performance. No weaknesses for me. Other Chandler stories can suffer to whatever degree by casual racial stereotypes. This story is perhaps his tightest as to plot and plausibility.

Solid Noire

I like this book a lot — especially the performance. Scott Brick kills it. His voice and tones are perfect — noire to a tee. The story is a little convoluted but overall good. I’ll listen to another Raymond Chandler book for sure.

Fundamental with great narration

Finally read this--Brick is maybe the perfect narrator--and I understand how important this is as a fundamental noir novel. It works! I may be too influenced by parodies and stories inspired by this and other noir novels, but the story felt a iny bit predictable.

I love how he creates such a visual experience with wordplay!

New favorite book and author. can't wait to read more! absolutely love the plot, story telling, and visual wordplay.

no one writes a simile like Raymond Chandler

got to keep track to keep all the characters straight. high brow fiction now,pulp fiction then. how we've regressed.

What a story!

I loved it! I had just listened to the Maltese Falcon and was looking for something similar. Oh boy did I get more than I expected! The story was dark but without filth. It’s amazing how it’s unnecessary to fill the readers eyes or ears with smut and violence and yet that’s all our modern writers do. It’s sad really that they have forsaken an art like suspense and instead sell us trash all naked and covered in blood and fools just lap it up and call it good. What a story! Riveting, suspenseful, even provocative but never smut. What a story!

classic noire

Scott Brick delivers a very compelling performance of a classic noire novel. Brick channels a very world weary Philip Marlowe in a tale that keeps you guessing until the bitter end.