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The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler · Recommended by 5 people on 4 podcasts

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I mean, that's a great movie. 'The Long Goodbye' is a great novel.
Andrew Klavan · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Feb 2024 Listen at 18:21

The best things said about it

4 of 5 · every mention
Discussed
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler or Lill by Ross McDonald or If You Hollow, let him go by Chester. books that really move me, that really touch me...
S.A. Cosby The Book Review · Jun 2025
Discussed
Planning o Connor's uh first collection of short stories uh A Good Man is Hard to Find I I read um James Baldwin's first novel uh Go Tell It on the Mountain I read the man with a gray flannel suit and I read uh Raymond Chandler's uh long goodbye.
Amor Towles How I Write · Feb 2024
Critiqued
But last year I read Raymond Chandler's long goodbye and that experience was my long goodbye to Raymond Chandler didn't like the characters.
Pamela Paul The Book Review · Oct 2021
Discussed
I mean, I definitely, I even hear the way, uh, Ryan and I will talk about this, you know, Pokerface Mystery Show and we share a love of, uh, Philip Marlowe, you know, and and Alman's The Long Goodbye, and you know, I love it so much that in, uh, co-creating Russian Doll, there is like a cat oatmeal and.
Natasha Lyonne SmartLess · Mar 2023

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The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler is a celebrated hardboiled detective novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe. On The Book Review, S.A. Cosby cited the novel as an emotionally powerful work of crime fiction, while Pamela Paul offered a critical perspective, sharing that reading it felt like her own long goodbye to the author because she disliked the characters. On The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, the hosts praised the title as a great novel that showcases the literary strength of its creator. On How I Write, Amor Towles mentioned reading Chandler's work alongside other mid-century classics while preparing to write his own fiction. On SmartLess, Natasha Lyonne described how her deep love for Philip Marlowe and Robert Altman's film adaptation of the novel directly inspired creative choices in her co-created television series, Russian Doll. Across these conversations, speakers demonstrated how the novel continues to influence contemporary writers, filmmakers, and creators through its atmospheric prose, complex characters, and enduring contributions to the detective genre.

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Andrew Klavan I mean, that's a great movie. 'The Long Goodbye' is a great novel. 1
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“I mean, that's a great movie. 'The Long Goodbye' is a great novel.”
Amor Towles planning o Connor's uh first collection of short stories uh A Good Man is Hard to Find I I read um James Ba… 1
Discussed
“planning o Connor's uh first collection of short stories uh A Good Man is Hard to Find I I read um James Baldwin's first novel uh Go Tell It on the Mountain I read the man with a gray flannel suit and I read uh Raymond Chandler's uh long goodbye”
Natasha Lyonne I mean, I definitely, I even hear the way, uh, Ryan and I will talk about this, you know, Pokerface Mystery… 1
Discussed
“I mean, I definitely, I even hear the way, uh, Ryan and I will talk about this, you know, Pokerface Mystery Show and we share a love of, uh, Philip Marlowe, you know, and and Alman's The Long Goodbye, and you know, I love it so much that in, uh, co-creating Russian Doll, there is like a cat oatmeal and”
Pamela Paul but last year I read Raymond Chandler's long goodbye and that experience was my long goodbye to Raymond Cha… 1
Critiqued
“but last year I read Raymond Chandler's long goodbye and that experience was my long goodbye to Raymond Chandler didn't like the characters”
S.A. Cosby The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler or Lill by Ross McDonald or If You Hollow, let him go by Chester. book… 1
Discussed
“The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler or Lill by Ross McDonald or If You Hollow, let him go by Chester. books that really move me, that really touch me...”

Portraits from Wikimedia Commons: Andrew Klavan, Embutler / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0); Amor Towles, librairie mollat / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).