Great!! Though $20 sounds pricey. I wonder what special features they are providing.Originally Posted by Stargazer86
Great!! Though $20 sounds pricey. I wonder what special features they are providing.
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I think classics cost more. They've been releasing them gradually at Target. $20 used to be standard DVD price but it seems $10 now is a little closer to standard. Not sure what the special features are though I believe it said over 7 hours of them. And I think there's an extra movie on there. How close is the movie to the book?
I read the book several years ago, and liked it very much. I've seen the film version starring Humphrey Bogart at least a dozen times, and still haven't gotten tired of it. His was the third movie based on the novel, which I discovered while doing a term paper on the movie for Cinema 101.
I'm going to re-read the novel since it is the month's featured novel.
PS: Have re-read it, & still like it a lot!
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So, I started reading today. Read only about 1/10 but hello? I don't know why guys complain about chick-flicks as this one is obviously a "guy flick"...
And "sweetheart", "darling"? *rolls her eyes so much that she can see the back of her own head*
Otherwise, it sounds like a typical detective story so far.
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Stargazer, look on Amazon. Many of the classics are coming out now and they are cheaper than $20. I buy mostly all my DVD's from Amazon and they have sales, too. I got "Casablanca" not long ago and it was onsale for under 15 bucks; might have been $10.99. Do you really need 7 hours of special features? I always group a few items so I don't pay shipping - designate super-saving shipping when you check out. You save on tax, too. How can you beat that?
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I guess it might be. But I know lots of women that love these hard detective novels. I think it's mostly women who buy them. There are now women hard detectives.
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I've never understood why this book is so popular. My boyfriend read it and he enjoyed it. I found it boring, and I didn't like any of the characters (except for Effie, she was okay). Sam Spade was repugnant. I DID like the flow and vocabulary, and the Flitcraft story made me pause and think for a while, but all in all not one of my favorites.
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Spade is pretty despicable. Well they all are. No one would EVER get away with talking like that now. That's part of what really gets you in that frame of mind and the setting so I think its appropriate for what it is and the time period in which it's told. He's the upper echelon of scumbag. And well...I love it! Never was much a chick flick fan myself. I've always been more into "guy movies" (stories in general).
Oh lol I think the 7hours of special features includes another movie. And I'm a dork and love watching interviews, bios, and behind the scenes stuff.
Just purchased the book from Borders. They had the Maltese Falcon for $12.95 and then they had all three of Hammett's book for $24. I had a 40% coupon, so all three cost me ~$15. Read the first chapter last night...
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It's done it again.
I've just written a careful, thoughtful and (ahem) erudite assessment of MF and my log-in has run out and the whole lot has disappeared into the wide blue ether.
So, briefly: reads like a film. Date is significant - 1929-30, talkies taking over from silent movies. Visual, lots of minute descriptions, silent films conveyed story visually. Dialogue short and sharp - silent films interspersed visual action with short, quick to read bits of dialogue, style carried over into talkies, gave rise to 'hard-boiled' convention. No introspection, no authorial interpretations, not allowed into character's interior thoughts or allowed to share their moments of illumination. Sam a superhuman detective - no description of previous life or how he became a detective, physical description 'Satanic', satyr-like, to emphasize superhuman aspect. Characters stock character, serve their purpose within the plot and have no existence outside the plot. Effie the most 'human' of characters because she reacts with her emotions - like us - and Sam warns against use of 'woman's intuition', must think like a detective and read the clues.
Now - will I be able to post this?
Yes!
Oh I'm sorry to hear about that Kasie. It happens to me on occaision too. I can't seem to find my book. I know it's somewhere in the basement. I'm just about done wqith Kim (yes, I was still reading that) and I'll put Austen's Persuasion on if I can find my Maltese Falcon.
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My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Yeah, I take Sam's behaviour with a grain of salt, it sets up the story really well.
I just finished the book and I'd give it a 3.5. I still like the Thin Man better.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Is that 3.5 out of ten or five or four?
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I am a little disappointed that not many read this book. I am almost done, 50 more pages to go!! Then, Ill prob watch the movie. But I'll post no later than tomorrow.
Out of 5.
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