Hello Sal! It's not the first time he's been really happy with the air conditioner. I think he likes the air blowing on his face. But he Really liked it when I was recording him this time. He likes it when Yukari and I are all in the same room with him. The air conditioner was an absolute necessity this summer. It's gotten so hot in just the last few years. Hope you are doing well!
Chandler: Master of figures of speech. "As inconspicuous as a tarantula on angle food." (Farewell My Darling) "How could I know that murder can sometimes small like honeysuckle?" (screenplay for Double Indemnity) ".You know, you’re the second guy I’ve met today that seems to think a gat in the hand means the world by the tail." (The Big Sleep). I initially read these books (I've read all the Phillip Marlowe books) to understand something of my parents (and other relatives of that generation). But they are so good. My favorite Marlowe mystery is _The Lady in the Lake._ By the way, I've finished John William's _Stoner._ Tremendous. I can identify with Bill Stoner, as I was an assistant professor for a few years. I saw many of these characteristics in my colleagues. I think a person considering an academic career should read this book first.
Hello Ned! I quite enjoyed that old gangster turn of phrase, I don't think it sounds very good in films, but I like the way it looks on paper in this novel. Stoner is really a masterpiece, I should read that one again and make a good review of it. It was a long time ago now that I've read it, but so much of it was pure excellence on paper. The wife, the affair, the trouble with the other teacher at school, all so honest and capturing the real human essence.
I've read Farewell, my Lovely and The Long Goodbye bye Chandler and loved them. I was immerse in that 1940s L.A, so cool. I will look for The Big Sleep pretty soon. Great video. p.s. Your boy is growing fast! Congratulations!
Hello Carlos, you should absolutely try to find The Big Sleep if you are a fan of those other Chandlers. This is my first time reading him, and I really had a good time with it. Matthew is surely growing very fast. I can't believe this time last year I was in Japan, and he was just two months old!
It is shocking how quickly he is growing. Recently his facial expressions have become a lot more complex. It is amazing to see him make these new faces. Hope you are doing well Deb!
What fun. I love Germinal. I probably read that and the Big Sleep around the same time so I appreciate overcoming intellectual dichotomies. Chandler is writing about post-war America as much as Zola is writing about French Class warfare, except Chandler is not a documentarian-artist. Marlowe's honor, sense of right and wrong and justice, are within in an American context. Chandler is such an important writer, not the least of his accomplishment is turning genre fiction into literature. He's one of those writers I wish I could read for the first time again. Truly revelatory. Great vid. Cheers.
Thanks for writing Timothy! You always have such an in depth take. I should hire you to write the scripts for my videos, then the channel would really become popular! I'm looking forward to more Chandler. And like I said in the video, it was fun to jump from Zola's class struggles to Hollywood hoodlums. Hope you are doing well!
@@grantlovesbooks I can you send you my rates but sadly the market for intelligent and original opinions on literature can only get so popular. I can only do so much. You remind me to think about books that I've thought about again. BTW. I've always felt that Bukowski was influenced by Chandler, both of whom I think of as LA writers.
@@timhrklittimothyherrickvid169 Good call on the Chandler - Bukowski connection. I always wondered about Buk's strange use of idiom, and he might have been doing the 'Chandler Talk,' that was so prevalent in The Bid Sleep. I was at my favourite used bookstore yesterday and we were talking about books for a few hours. When we both hit a point where we realized that very few people read books anymore. All of our talk, and all of these books and authors, we might as well have been talking about fishing lures or model train sets. It was funny.
@@grantlovesbooks Keep hope alive! The relationship between 20th century literary and noir writers is self evident, and commented upon. Stylistic Prose. William S. Burroughs and Jim Thompson are kindred. Poor Buk tried to ape the hard boiled connection with the terrible Pulp. I saw Denis Johnson gush about Chandler, quoting she had a body that would make the archbishop jump through a stained glass window.
Looks like Matthew is having one whale of a good time. Thank you for this Mr Grant.
Hello Sal! It's not the first time he's been really happy with the air conditioner. I think he likes the air blowing on his face. But he Really liked it when I was recording him this time. He likes it when Yukari and I are all in the same room with him.
The air conditioner was an absolute necessity this summer. It's gotten so hot in just the last few years.
Hope you are doing well!
Chandler: Master of figures of speech. "As inconspicuous as a tarantula on angle food." (Farewell My Darling) "How could I know that murder can sometimes small like honeysuckle?" (screenplay for Double Indemnity) ".You know, you’re the second guy I’ve met today that seems to think a gat in the hand means the world by the tail." (The Big Sleep).
I initially read these books (I've read all the Phillip Marlowe books) to understand something of my parents (and other relatives of that generation). But they are so good.
My favorite Marlowe mystery is _The Lady in the Lake._
By the way, I've finished John William's _Stoner._ Tremendous. I can identify with Bill Stoner, as I was an assistant professor for a few years. I saw many of these characteristics in my colleagues. I think a person considering an academic career should read this book first.
Hello Ned! I quite enjoyed that old gangster turn of phrase, I don't think it sounds very good in films, but I like the way it looks on paper in this novel.
Stoner is really a masterpiece, I should read that one again and make a good review of it. It was a long time ago now that I've read it, but so much of it was pure excellence on paper. The wife, the affair, the trouble with the other teacher at school, all so honest and capturing the real human essence.
I've read Farewell, my Lovely and The Long Goodbye bye Chandler and loved them. I was immerse in that 1940s L.A, so cool. I will look for The Big Sleep pretty soon. Great video. p.s. Your boy is growing fast! Congratulations!
Hello Carlos, you should absolutely try to find The Big Sleep if you are a fan of those other Chandlers. This is my first time reading him, and I really had a good time with it.
Matthew is surely growing very fast. I can't believe this time last year I was in Japan, and he was just two months old!
Thanks for another review. Matthew is growing up!
It is shocking how quickly he is growing. Recently his facial expressions have become a lot more complex. It is amazing to see him make these new faces.
Hope you are doing well Deb!
What fun. I love Germinal. I probably read that and the Big Sleep around the same time so I appreciate overcoming intellectual dichotomies. Chandler is writing about post-war America as much as Zola is writing about French Class warfare, except Chandler is not a documentarian-artist. Marlowe's honor, sense of right and wrong and justice, are within in an American context. Chandler is such an important writer, not the least of his accomplishment is turning genre fiction into literature. He's one of those writers I wish I could read for the first time again. Truly revelatory. Great vid. Cheers.
Thanks for writing Timothy! You always have such an in depth take. I should hire you to write the scripts for my videos, then the channel would really become popular!
I'm looking forward to more Chandler. And like I said in the video, it was fun to jump from Zola's class struggles to Hollywood hoodlums.
Hope you are doing well!
@@grantlovesbooks I can you send you my rates but sadly the market for intelligent and original opinions on literature can only get so popular. I can only do so much. You remind me to think about books that I've thought about again. BTW. I've always felt that Bukowski was influenced by Chandler, both of whom I think of as LA writers.
@@timhrklittimothyherrickvid169 Good call on the Chandler - Bukowski connection. I always wondered about Buk's strange use of idiom, and he might have been doing the 'Chandler Talk,' that was so prevalent in The Bid Sleep.
I was at my favourite used bookstore yesterday and we were talking about books for a few hours. When we both hit a point where we realized that very few people read books anymore. All of our talk, and all of these books and authors, we might as well have been talking about fishing lures or model train sets. It was funny.
@@grantlovesbooks Keep hope alive! The relationship between 20th century literary and noir writers is self evident, and commented upon. Stylistic Prose. William S. Burroughs and Jim Thompson are kindred. Poor Buk tried to ape the hard boiled connection with the terrible Pulp. I saw Denis Johnson gush about Chandler, quoting she had a body that would make the archbishop jump through a stained glass window.