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The Big Sleep
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
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Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer, and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse....
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- SimpleSybil
- 24-05-23
Wonderful classic
This audible book has everything: cynicism, sarcasm, menace, sadness, heroics, well observed description, laugh out loud moments, understandable plot, and is beautifully narrated. So much better than most of the modern novels.
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- Ken Bryant
- 04-07-22
Excellent detective noire story. Quite possibly
the ultimate. The narration really does add value and bring the story into being. Could not recommend more 👍
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- Thomas Spencer
- 25-08-22
Excellent
Brilliant as usual it's unfortunate that R. C. Is no longer with us sad RIP
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- Arnfinn Rong
- 30-06-23
It Never Ends
Upon proof-reading The Big Sleep, Alfred Clopf deleted a double-negative Harry Jones says to Marlowe, Clopf forgetting the exception to rule "twice wrong make not one right". Now a listener ascribe implied sensorship to this production. "When I split the infinitive it stays" Chandler replied.
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- Jack
- 16-05-23
Pretty damn good
A good story that still holds up today. The narrator isn’t the best at distinguishing character voices, so it can be a bit confusing when there are more than two people in a scene.
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- Adam Sheridan
- 23-09-23
Classic noir
The story is class. The only thing bad I can say about it is what's already been said. It's rubbish they cut out the f word repeatedly in 1 chapter. So the narrator has a great presence but sometimes it's hard to distinguish between characters, as the voices are often very simliar,; even between men and women.
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- 23-01-24
The turn of phrase, such great lines. Ridiculous plot, really, but still great.
See above, I don’t like to waste words. Blubber, pants, prosthetic, harmonica, haemolytic. I needed 15 words.
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- JK
- 06-06-23
A Classic
A classic story and prime example of the genre. Excellent narration, but it was annoying when the F word was muted out, and the special introduction by the guest author wasn’t included with this audiobook, which was odd.
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- Dan Bowen
- 12-12-22
Hard boiled as it gets
Given the intricate plot and host of characters, this is a tad difficult to follow in audio format and I look forward to giving the print version and film adaptation a whirl. I still enjoyed it overall though and will look to see how Marlowe gets on in his following capers.
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- Kazasid
- 03-02-24
This reading has everything
I liked everything, especially the occasional music and the brilliantly dated presentation- it took me right back highly recommended don’t miss this I had no idea there was a co- author and I have read all the rebus books.
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