How does /lit/ feel about Raymond Chandler/LA Noir? Just finished The Big Sleep. Would appreciate recommendations for other books by Chandler or in the same vein
>>7616125
I love the guy. I also need more refommendations. I find noir very comfy
>>7616219
jim thompson if you are in for something more crazy
Georges Simenon is good too
Is Hammett any good?
>>7616125
All of Chandler's books are great Noir detectives, the best besides TBS is probably The Last Goodbye.
I also liked James Elliot's Black Dahlia, but not everybody appreciates his neo-noir style.
>>7616227
>Is Hammett any good?
The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man and The Glass Key are all great.
Red Harvest was too over the top for me but influenced a couple of movies that I liked - A Fistful of Dollars and Yojimbo - Western and Samurai versions of a 1920's gangster novel about a guy fighting for money from both sides of a city wide gang war.
I havent read The Continental Op
>>7616235
thanks
Does the Phillip Marlowe series benefit from being read in order?
Boring
>>7616309
I didn't read them in any kind of order and I don't feel like I missed something.
>>7616309
I dont think any of them are explicitly related, so no.
