Book club selection (via Lon).
I wasn't at all familiar with author Raymond Chandler or what I think was his favorite character - private detective Philip Marlowe. In this novel, Marlowe is witness to a murder at the story's outset; he then interacts with various police and other characters; eventually sorts out the story.
Plot line was pretty disjointed, but Chandler's writing is quite good. He often comes up with unexpected phrase twists that are simultaneously communicative and funny.
As I understand it, Chandler was a pioneer in this genre. Lots of things seemed cliched reading this in 2014 but I guess that label doesn't fairly apply to the pioneer of the style.
I didn't really care about any of the characters. The book didn't really make me feel anything, or teach me anything. I'm the wrong audience for what I'll call a well-written, entertaining page-turner - there simply are too many other books I want to read, and too little time to get to them.
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