In May we will be reading The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammet.
Please post your comments and questions here.
In May we will be reading The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammet.
Please post your comments and questions here.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Oh cool. I'll have to dig out my copy.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
I ordered mine yesterday. Should get it some time next week.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I find that I have to read this book slowly. I'm on page two.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
I'll see if I can borrow my dad's copy
I'm buying mine this weekend
If you kill a book, you kill an idea
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn
I read and did a theis on this as an undergraduate - going to get my notes out and bore you all to death!
We can never know what to want, because living only one life we can neither compare it with our previous lives, nor perfect it in our lives to come'
Milan Kundera,The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Parce que c'est toi, parce que c'est moi
I started reading this 2 days ago. I would have finished this morning but I had to go to work so I'll be finished this evening. It's fantastic! Not a book I would have picked up and read on my own, but I'm so glad it was picked. It's a hard one to put down! I'm looking forward to discussing it. I may go buy the movie tonight
Oh that would be great. I actually had this as a read in an undergrad class centuries ago and have loved it since.Originally Posted by optimisticnad
I'll have to go dig outr my copy and start. It is a great detective story. The prose writing is tops. Have you seen the movie with Humphery Bogart? After you finish you should try to get it Stargazer. It's a really fine movie too.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
I just finished up an undergrad class in Roman Noir, so we did a lot of the hard-boiled detective fiction. I'll probably get around to posting some of my notes on it here pretty soon.
I'll drink whisky instead of water.
My copy of The Maltese Falcon has now arrived from Amazon and I am looking forward to what looks like a good read. I have all of Sunday at home this weekend so I hope to read it all in one go. It will be a nice break from War and Peace, which I have been reading all year - and I still have 600 pages to go!
I really enjoyed this book. As I stated earlier, it was so hard to put down! There's action from beginning to end. I absolutely love the descriptions and dialouge and how seedy all these people are while still managing to maintain some class. I could just picture the whole thing in black and white and almost hear thier voices. I wouldn't say the ending was alltogether shocking, but I profusely enjoyed it nonetheless. I've never seen the movie but I saw it on sale at Target and will be buying it. I believe it stars Humphrey Bogart who I'm sure is just PERFECT in the part of Spade. Actually, that's exactly who I was picturing while reading the book. Spade is just such a scumbag, but you've gotta love him. And in the end he does seem to have some sort of twisted sense of morality.
I didn't realize that Spade is a recurring character in other Hammett stories. I'd be interested in checking those out to read on the history of Archer and Spade. Perhaps that would have made this book even more interesting.
This may not be the thread to mention it, but you should check out the novels of Raymond Chandler. His detective is Philip Marlowe and Bogart played him in more than one movie.
I read about a year ago- didn't like it too much... I've always preferred classical detectives.
They're selling a fantastic special edition version at Target right now for $20. That's my next DVD purchase for sure. I'm looking forward to seeing it (and the special features as well)Oh that would be great. I actually had this as a read in an undergrad class centuries ago and have loved it since.
I'll have to go dig outr my copy and start. It is a great detective story. The prose writing is tops. Have you seen the movie with Humphery Bogart? After you finish you should try to get it Stargazer. It's a really fine movie too.
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