Comments on: The Big Sleep http://www.dejafu.com/2008/06/25/the-big-sleep/ A feeling that somehow, somewhere, you've been kicked in the head like this before. Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:53:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kevin http://www.dejafu.com/2008/06/25/the-big-sleep/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Kevin Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:26:19 +0000 http://www.dejafu.com/?p=277#comment-195 Oh, I never stopped reading. I'd sooner stop breathing first. I just took a break from trying to write about it. Have no fear. I've got much too big a mouth to stay silent for any real length of time. -K Oh, I never stopped reading. I’d sooner stop breathing first.

I just took a break from trying to write about it. Have no fear. I’ve got much too big a mouth to stay silent for any real length of time.

-K

]]> By: Nicholas Tam http://www.dejafu.com/2008/06/25/the-big-sleep/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Nicholas Tam Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:32:55 +0000 http://www.dejafu.com/?p=277#comment-194 <em>The Maltese Falcon</em> is elegant, no doubt, but it's unquestionably <em>The Big Sleep</em> that people are thinking of when they enumerate the iconic properties of the archetypal private eye novel. I don't just mean the hard-hitting, simile-laden first-person narration, but the thematic centrality of the death of chivalry (Marlowe's insistence on being a knight in a world that doesn't value honour anymore). It's good to read another 52-in-52-er (I recently started doing it myself), though I see that you've gone on hiatus. Hope you manage to get back to it soon. The Maltese Falcon is elegant, no doubt, but it’s unquestionably The Big Sleep that people are thinking of when they enumerate the iconic properties of the archetypal private eye novel. I don’t just mean the hard-hitting, simile-laden first-person narration, but the thematic centrality of the death of chivalry (Marlowe’s insistence on being a knight in a world that doesn’t value honour anymore).

It’s good to read another 52-in-52-er (I recently started doing it myself), though I see that you’ve gone on hiatus. Hope you manage to get back to it soon.

]]> By: Kid http://www.dejafu.com/2008/06/25/the-big-sleep/comment-page-1/#comment-192 Kid Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:07:01 +0000 http://www.dejafu.com/?p=277#comment-192 Can I borrow that book from you? Can I borrow that book from you?

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