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Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe. ... Read more

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Really very good
I think I am probably partial to Farewell, My Lovely, maybe, probably because Robert Altman's film version of The Long Goodbye interferes so much with the enjoyment of the book. A very good film, but not at all the book. (And Sterling Hayden as Wade is far better casting than Elliot Gould as Marlowe.) And maybe Marlowe is just a little too heroic here, the not accepting money, the decision at the end, regarding Eileen Wade's confession, that surely would have gotten him killed.
Still, some wonderful lines in this, including, for my money, Chandler's best: "The tragedy of life ... is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean."
(And an aside: couldn't Amazon give half stars? There are a lot of books I wish I could have given four and a half, but couldn't give five.)

Overlong Goodbye
I found the book tedious. I wasn't interested in the characters and I wasn't able to finish it. I realize that the genre style of detective novel was more or less created by Raymond Chandler and has inspired many, mostly second rank authors today. He does, of course, have an undeniable gift for description and he doesn't insult your intelligence, but the plotting of this book is dense, hard to follow and ,in general, is disappointing. The clicheed, dated wisecracking is hard to take, but that's just me, I guess. I just don't like the genre.

At the Top of American Tough Guy Fiction
While Dashiell Hammett was the first and did the most to create American Tough Guy Fiction as its own Genre of almost respectable Literature (just read "The Maltese Falcon" and see why), still, looking at each writer's complete works, Raymond Chandler was the more consistently excellent writer.While everybody drank too much back then, Hammet was the worst drunk of all, and it seems to have affected some of his work.But Chandler stayed surprisingly flawless.Yes, some readers do prefer Hammett... it is a close call... but when I do re-reads, I consistently reach for Raymond Chandler first.

What about "The Long Goodbe" in particular.Well, I am reading it now because it is also in print in French and in German.I'm reading it through in all three languages.Its amazing how close the German runs to the English, but the French is close enough that one can still tell that it is the same book (a triumph of French Translation, as it turns out).

Oh, that reminds me of Raymond Chandler's huge stylistic innovation, that he wrote the books in the first person tense from his main character's point of view... "I saw this, I did that..." In most other fiction we have this Omniscient Third Person Observer... a God-Like Narrator that tells the story and describes the characters -- "Liz tossed the stone at Darcy, and Darcy derisively sneered, feeling contempt for all beneath him".With Raymond Chandler we experience everything through the perceptual and intellectual filters of his Private Detective Phillip Marlowe.It definitely helps in establishing reader rapport and identification with the hero... the books first person experience subtly becomes the readers first person experience... when Phillip Marlowe bumps his toe, the reader says "ouch!"

Oh, this edition in particular is a fine book.The paper is good and the print is big, and the photo on the cover is nothing that is so embarrassingly stupid that one needs to hide the book from one's friends.

Still the best mystery novel ever written
This is a book for people who love to read. They are a small group.

Elmore Leonard once said, concerning his writing, that he "leaves out the stuff people don't want to read." I interpret that to mean that he writes for people who don't like to read, or, rather, who haven't the patience or attention span to read other than dialogue. There are many of them, those folks who don't like to read, and ironically they are the ones keeping the publishing industry alive. You will find them bragging in parties or writers' groups about how many books they've read that week. "I'm reading five right now, two almost finished, I'm about to begin another, and all together I've read seventy-two this year."

These are people who are more interested in "getting through" a book rather than taking the time to enjoy it. I understand. In younger and less discriminating days I did the same. Now I can barely find a handful of books a year I deem worthy to begin, most of which I find I haven't the stomach to finish. And when the contemporary standard of excellence in the mystery genre has become Evanovich, where is one to turn?

To the past, unfortunately, for the wasteland that has become today's fiction brings a thirst for quality which can only quenched by quality. 'The Long Goodbye' remains the standard of excellence for mystery novels, and though many continue to assault the citadel, all continue to fall abysmally short.

Another Chandler page turner...
The Long Goodbye easily rates as one of Chandler's best.Farewell, My Lovely and The Lady in Lake are personal favorites, but I think they've been eclipsed.Chandler's novels are short.Sometimes, frustratingly so.One isn't so eager that they be over.The Long Goodbye remedies this coming in at 380+ pages. 380+ pages of pure, unadulterated, magnificent Chandler.

A wealthy and philandering trust fund daughter is slain in a horrible manner.Suspicion quickly falls on her peripatetic husband - a man with whom Philip Marlowe is already acquainted.An untimely death also comes to a local novelist which serves to tie a plot in knots that only Marlowe can unravel.

It is a work well done.Chandleresque suspense, pace, and that beguiling wit fill The Long Goodbye from start to finish. Marlowe's interaction with the local police is worth the price of admission alone.Throw in some goons with an illicit habit or two, a few stiffs, and the 1940's Los Angeles aura and you've got a book almost impossible to put down.It may well be Chandler's finest.5 stars. ... Read more

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A warm day on Central Avenue, and Philip Marlowe's hunch about the man beside him is as vague as the heat waves that dance above the sidewalk. The way business is looking, even a hunch is enough. Moose Malloy stands six five and one-half and weighs two hundred and sixty-four pounds, without his necktie. After eight years in the pen, he wants little Velma back, and no cops or mobsters are ready to stand in his way. Marlowe's tough enough for the ride, but he can't help thinking there's never been a happy ending to the story of beauty and the beast ... ... Read more

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good stuff
It's nice to read a mystery novel without all the blood and violence that are part of today's fiction. The writer's ability to create the suspense and keep the reader interested is what makes good novels. This is GOOD!

What great writing is all about
This is the best book I have read in ages. I don't read everything start to finish. I like to be taken in, and to finish a book, I usually feel compelled to do so. This book had me eagerly flipping page after page. I couldn't wait to find out what would unfold next. It was the highlight of most of my recent days. Chandler's failed career as a romantic poet shows admirably in this prose. It's really beautiful, to the point, and not pretentious at all. It was fun. The pace was quick, and you are trying to put the pieces together with Marlowe as he brings you along. I don't usually read mysteries. With Chandler, I at least plan to read all of his. This is better than the best noir films. If you dig noir films and literature, read this book. (It's also clear why so many people idolize Marlowe from this one, a man's man if there ever was one...

Zingers Galore
For me the main pleasure of reading this novel derives from wisecracks zinging on almost every page.Here are a couple, plucked randomly:

The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
A bogus heartiness, as weak as a Chinaman's tea, moved into her face and voice.

And here is another one, a shot at Hemingway, as Marlowe explains a corrupt cop why he keeps calling him by that name: "A guy that keeps saying the same thing over and over until you begin to believe it must be good."

Hemingway may not be a great writer -- I'm not a big fan -- but he was a far better one than Chandler.That little charming fish story of his alone has (rightfully) much greater literary acclaim than all of Chandler's works put together.

Still, Raymond Chandler is a pleasure to read.He has a tremendous gift for storytelling.The wisecracks, the colorful characters, and the snappy dialogue make reading this novel, as well his other ones a pleasant experience, especially on lazy, boozy weekend afternoons.Nothing wrong with that.

Addictive...
I read mostly at night in bed and I'm tired because I could not put this book down.I kept looking ahead for convenient places to stop, but blew right by them instead.The combination of Chandler's pace and piquancy is simply irresistible.

Farewell, My Lovely isn't the most believable of books, but just like The Big Sleep, it doesn't matter.Indeed, there's a tongue-in-cheek charm that peeks out quite often from behind the hardened facade.Chandler excelled at caricature.He danced on the edge of parody.But, he did it so exquisitely well that he detracted not a whit from the earnestness of the story.

A paroled con comes back to LA in search of the woman he loves.Philip Marlowe, our protagonist, stumbles into the plot thus derived.Conspiracy and murder follow among the landmarks of the Los Angeles area.There's a magnetic pull to 40's-era LA and Chandler takes full advantage of it.Farewell, My Lovely is quintessential, it is provocative, and, in places, shamefully vulgar.And, still, I recommend it highly, because it is worth every bit of 5 stars.

One of the most brilliant narrative voices in the annals of literature
With the exception of Charles Dickens, has any writer has more influence on narration than Raymond Chandler?Dozens and dozens of writers -- not always crime writers -- have tried to sound like Philip Marlowe.Dozens of movies have featured Philip Marlowe-like narrators, including the theatrical release of BLADE RUNNER, where Rick Deckard sound nothing so much as a 21st Century updating.And perhaps there have been even more parodies.Either way, we all know what detective narrators are supposed to sound like, and we know this because of Raymond Chandler.

Raymond Chandler did not invent hardboiled detective fiction.He essentially took Dashiell Hammett's invention and focused nearly all his attention on prose style, character, and detail.There is an almost tactile quality to many of his stories, to the extent where you feel you could almost reach out and wipe the dust off a desk with your finger.There is, also, an almost wanton disregard of plot.If you read Raymond Chandler for plot, you are misreading him.I'll admit that in several of his novels I'm still unclear what happened.But who cares?The brilliance is in the texture, the detail.Take smell.Read virtually any other detective, crime, mystery, or hardboiled novel and look at how often other writers mention smells and then look at Chandler.He is constantly telling you what places smell like, whether mesquite or sage or sandalwood or whatever.Chandler wrote with heightened senses.I frankly can't get around to caring that his plots aren't very tight because other things absorb all my attention.

FAREWELL, MY LOVELY is one of my favorite Chandler novels, perhaps only behind THE BIG SLEEP and his flawed masterpiece THE LONG GOODBYE.It featured many of his most memorable characters, especially the doomed Moose Malloy, and many of his most unforgettable scenes.Because of Chandler's ability to sketch a scene in such astonishing detail, there are scenes in his books that are as easy to visualize as it is a scene in a movie.He is that vivid and precise in his depiction.A great example is Marlowe's visit to Mrs. Florian in his search for Velma.It would be a person of very poor imagination who didn't get a strong sense of what her house looked like, smelled like, felt like.

This is also one of his best books because it is one of the most tragic.The end of the novel feels almost like the end of Hamlet, with nearly all of the major characters either dead or at least shattered.And like with most of Chandler, there isn't an overly nice resolution of the mystery, whereby the detective magically makes everything nice and tidy and correct.Marlowe gets to the bottom of things, but often what he finds when he gets there is an abyss.And speaking of Chandler's influence, can one imagine the end of Raymond Polanski's CHINATOWN without Marlowe?

As a side note, there have been two very good film versions of FAREWELL, MY LOVELY.The first was made by RKO while Chandler was still alive and was originally released with that title.It tanked at the box office, mainly because it starred former Warner Brothers boy crooner Dick Powell.His style of musical had gone out of style and no one wanted to see what they assumed was a musical.So RKO renamed it MURDER, MY SWEET, which obviously could not be a musical, and re-released it.It was a box office success and was crucial in launching the second half of Dick Powell's career, this time as a serious dramatic actor.Chandler himself was horrified at the casting of Powell as Marlowe, but later proclaimed that he thought Powell was outstanding in the role.By the way, the person that Chandler himself thought would have made the ideal Marlowe was Cary Grant.The second version of FAREWELL, MY LOVELY was released in 1975 with Robert Mitchum as Marlowe.With apologies to Humphrey Bogart, Mitchum is my favorite Marlowe.He was a tad too old for the role, but apart from that he absolutely nailed the cynicism and latent nobility of Marlowe.My only regret is that Mitchum didn't begin making a string of Marlowe films when he was 35.As it was he was too old in his second appearance as Marlowe in a bizarre version of THE BIG SLEEP set, of all places, in London. ... Read more

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Not sexy! Not great noir.
Over the past couple years I've become quite fond of police procedural/detective/mystery thrillers. My favorite authors include Larsson, Fossum, Lackberg, and Atkinson. Having read some positive reviews of Red Cat, I picked up a copy hoping for the best. Honestly, I didn't really like it that much. I almost put the book down, and out a number of times during the first 140 pages or so. It just wasn't gripping or sexy. As it turns out I did complete the book but really wouldn't recommend it very highly. The dialogue wasn't particularly great and I didn't like any of the characters of which there was little development. I finished it, but just barely. To get it over with. Not a great endorsement.

The John March series continues to develop richly
Red Cat follows Black Maps and Death's Little Helpers.The protagonists family plays a far more central role in this novel and so Spiegelman is able to flesh out the background of his character considerably more than we saw in the first two novels.

Spiegelman does a good job with portraying the3 impact of salacious sex scandal break out in the affluent March family.He also does a good job with the pacing of the plot, something he hasn't always achieved in either of the first two books.

This is an engaging series which continues to get better with each book.My only gripe is that Spiegelman seems stuck in a rut with how he portrays the lov3e interest of the protagonist.He seems to have written all the prior women in March's life out of the picture by the end of the book.March is way too lonely a charcter to let lie fallow.I hope Spiegelman resolves this in the fourth book.

A Great Premise, A Sour Disappointment
John March is a hardboiled P.I. and former cop, and a skeptic about life and love.His brother David, with whom John has little to like and no positive childhood memories of, comes to him for help.David is being blackmailed by a woman he met via the computer and had sexual encounters with. When she's murdered, David and then his wife come to John for help.

A really good premise, really one of the best I've heard in a long time, so I was very much disappointed when this story didn't work for me. John March was interesting at first but the story became dour and a downer.So much more could have been done with this story, with the family relationships, with the wife's involvement, with the interaction between John and David, with John's outlook, but the story lacked all these things.Too bad, this was a story I wanted to like.

Family Affair
This is the third John March mystery after the debut, Black Maps, a very good book and Death's Little Helpers, which was not. Red Cat combines what worked in this author's first novel and somewhat minimizes what didn't in the second providing an entertaining but average read.

Our protagonist is all but estranged from his wealthy NY banking family working on his own as PI. So imagine his surprise when his brother comes calling with a very delicate adultery problem which turns into a very ugly blackmail/murder problem. Without giving away any more of the plot suffice it to say the tale turns on the collision of two dysfunctional families.

An earlier reviewer succinctly described Red Cat as a solid-gum shoe mystery - it is - with John following clues and dealing with secondary characters and suspects at a pace just fast enough and a case just tantalizing enough that you overlook the fact the mystery isn't that deep or that most of the characters aren't either. What's also troublesome is John's "development" or lack thereof. He's sullen and not a very happy camper, which is fine - nobody would accuse Dave Robicheaux or Joe Pike of being happy go lucky - but poor John doesn't appear to have anything positive on the horizon putting him dangerously close to the one dimensional category - not a good place for a series protagonist.

Great book!
I'm from Brazil and I read this book a few months ago while I was in the USA. I loved it. I also read Black Maps and Death's Little Helpers. My boyfriend brought them to me. I had to have these books :). I do recommend it. ... Read more

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When a case of blackmail involving a California millionaire leads to murder, the inimitable Philip Marlowe is stirred into action. Read by Elliott Gould. Book available.Amazon.com Review
"His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug,purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, likewild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock." Published in 1939,when Raymond Chandler was 50, this is the first of the Philip Marlowenovels. Its bursts of sex, violence, and explosively direct prosechanged detective fiction forever. "She was trouble. She was tall andrangy and strong-looking. Her hair was black and wiry and parted inthe middle. She had a good mouth and a good chin. There was a sulkydroop to her lips and the lower lip was full." ... Read more

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I need a cigarette.
REVIEWS OF UNUSUAL SIZE

Re: The first Phillip Marlowe novel, published in 1939. Marlowe works a blackmail case for a millionaire that soon involves the millionaire's nutjob daughters, murder and more awesome dialogue than you can imagine.

Outstanding: Everything. I mean it. I love everything about this book, but if I have to tie down one particular thing, it'd have to be the dialogue. I wish everyone spoke like this.

Unacceptable: The daughter's antics got a bit old after a bit.

Summary: I've read this book a few times over the years and it never ceases to thrill. It's one of those books that I read when I'm feeling down, or that maybe I don't want to be a writer, or when I have a fedora, a cigarette, some whiskey and no case to occupy my time.

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Deserves the "classic" designation
I thoroughly enjoyed this "greatest and archetypal noir detective thriller," as one reviewer called it. I had heard other mystery writers compared (favorably or unfavorably) to Raymond Chandler, and now realize why...he was one of the first to write in this style (this book published 1939). I kept thinking throughout that Philip Marlowe sounded like a Humphrey Bogart character...only to find out from reading the reviews that indeed he WAS played by Humphrey Bogart in a movie with Lauren Bacall. Cool to read the book that is credited with starting the genre.

The protagonist, Private Investigator Philip Marlowe, is the character who dominates the book...his personality, his thinking, his dialogue. He's cool, he's suave, and he's clever. Often he's humorous or insanely inappropriate (especially by today's politically correct standards), but that's part of his charm. I highlighted a few lines that I enjoyed or admired:

"The General spoke again, slowly, using his strength as carefully as an out-of-work show-girl uses her last good pair of stockings."

"Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form itself on the edge of consciousness."

"You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. Women made me sick."

"It seemed a little too pat. It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact."

"She'd make a jazzy weekend, but she'd be wearing for a steady diet."

I agree with other reviewers who admit that while the plot is somewhat convoluted, the characters and dialogue make the read totally worthwhile.

There's nothing modern about this great mystery, but it deserves its classic status.

Great Read
Very good book, possibly one of my favorites.If you like great stories then you should get this book.And the fact that the Big Lebowski is loosely based on this is a huge plus.

4 1/2 - Messy and Convoluted, but still Marlowe
Although Modern Library skips over it, Time tucks 'The Big Sleep' snugly between the covers of its best English-Language novels list - though it seems reasonable to think it's included as a stand-in for Chandler's total oeuvre and for the book's impact on the genre rather than as an indication of its relative merits. That assumption is based on the opinion that Chandler got better as he went along, and also that, thanks to Bogey and Bacall, 'The Big Sleep' is probably his most recognizable title. Still, as far as first novels go, it's little short of amazing, and it's easy to see how it spawned a cottage industry of parody and imitation that is still vibrant today.

Too often, when returning to the original source of such an iconic character or literary convention, the overwhelming amount of homage, tribute and copycat material can make the prototype look common. However, there are a few that, in their earliest incarnations, retain their unique attraction despite the odds against them (Sherlock Holmes, for example, and I think a case could also be made for Burrough's early Tarzan). To that short list, I'd add Phillip Marlowe, and his introduction in 'The Big Sleep'. How much more could it be - "I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it".

One may as well try to summarize 'War and Peace' as 'The Big Sleep' - it hardly seems worth it. It's about a private detective as he solves a case - but really, that's just window dressing. Everyone knows it's about Marlowe - hang-dog Marlowe as he tries not to drink too much while running up against the dirty underside of humanity, mostly treating it as if it had a chance to be something better than it was, but still prepared when it wasn't. Tough guy but not really, honest, more of a knight-errant than mid-century America wanted or deserved. Those sort of guys get crucified now - probably would have then too, if he'd drawn too much attention to himself.

Maybe Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles - the Petri dish from which he plucked Marlowe - resembled what the world would look like a few short years later, but Marlowe seems like one of the first modern men in print (which may also account for his longevity). He's a man who grapples with the rest of the world with no framework in place to guide his actions other than the one he's built himself. That's Marlowe's attraction - he's beholden to nothing other than his innate sense of right and wrong, which, for him, is a far stricter taskmaster than any abstraction. Regardless of his flaws, it ennobles him, and makes him a sort of moral guidepost - even though he knows holding to his beliefs is just as likely to bring him lumps as well as luck. Strangely enough - or maybe not so strange - Marlowe makes that appealing.

For those who have never read Chandler's novels because they thought that the hard-boiled private eye genre was not for them may find themselves pleasantly surprised picking him up for the first time. It isn't necessary to start with 'The Big Sleep' -structurally it's messy and convoluted - but it functions as well as any of Chandler's other novels, in that it highlights his iconic private eye. Beyond the descriptive style and the snappy patter (another of Chandler's strengths), even beyond the particulars of any given storyline, Phillip Marlowe is recommended for his tired faith that it's still possible to hold your head up in this world.

more elaborate than I had expected
Having read Maltese Falcon, a natural next step was to give the other "noir" master, Raymond Chandler a read.In many respects the two authors are similar: both wrote during the same time period, both protagonists are private detectives working in California, and (in broad terms) Sam Spade (Hammet) and Philip Marlowe (Chandler) are similar characters: hard-drinking single men, street-smart, smart-alecks who crack wise to the police and often find themselves in situations that require quick thinking or quick fists to get out of.Yet I liked Marlowe better.Chandler is less the mysogynist than Hammet (even making allowances for the time in which they wrote, Chandler's women are less objectified and two dimensional), which is important to me.(With this said, women are far from the independent, strong persons of contemporary fiction.)

In Marlowe's debut, he is given a case of blackmail by a wealthy LA invalid who wants to know who is extorting him: both his daughters have a tendency to get into trouble.An ancillary case is what happened to his son-in-law.Marlowe quickly finds things far from simple blackmail, as a series of murders result, exposing a seedy, vulgar side of the lives LA's wealthy and powerful.True to the genre, all the loose ends aren't tied together until literarlly the final few pages, with a typically bitter-sweet conclusion.But what really gave me a kick was the dialogue - vintage noir:

"All I want is to find out is she dummying up on you, kid.If that's the way you say it is, everything is jakeloo.You can put the bite on the peeper and be on your way."

"I was as empty of life as a scarcrows' pockets.I went out to the kitchenette and drank two cups of black coffee.You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol.I had one from women.Women made me sick."

"It might have annoyed him, but business was business, and you have to hold your teeth clamped around Hollywood to keep from chewing on stray blondes."

The conclusion - and the motive - was convoluted and complicated, overly so, I think.This reservation aside, it was a whole lot of fun to read. ... Read more

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The poetry of Robert Frost, deftly combining a lyrical evocation of rural New England with longer narratives and dramatic forms, focuses predominantly on the themes of human isolation, the emergence of the poetic faculty, death and the spiritual significance of nature.Amazon.com Review
Listening to these time-honored poems, it's difficult toimagine the young Frost struggling to find a publisher for hiswork. In fact, he was nearly 40 (and living in England, of all places)when A Boy's Will, his first collection, appeared. Over thenext 50 years he would become the quintessential American poet,securing a well-cushioned catbird seat in the literary canon.

Performers Susan Anspach, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Elliott Gould, amongothers, heighten the conversational cadences of a writer who seldomstrayed from his beloved iambs. Included are "Mending Wall," "The RoadNot Taken," "The Death of the Hired Man," "The Fear," and much more,all complete and unabridged. (Running time: 1 hour, 1 cassette)--Martha Silano ... Read more

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The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
I am extremely pleased with the book of Robert Frost poetry.The service provided by Amazon.com was truly ourtstanding.There were no glitches in the shipment and it arrived as was promised.

Frost at his best
Robert Frost is a very readable poet, who writes about things connected with modern living.There is always a relevant quote that can be found and this book, being his complete works, is a valuable addition to our library.We were looking for 'The Silken Tent' in particular but this is an economical way of buying the complete works, particularly while the Australian dollar is so good against the US dollar!

The Poetry of Robert Frost
Don't remember receiving this book. It is not in my possession nor do I remember giving it as gift. Must not have arrived and I failed to notice.

America's greatest poet
A little over 40 years ago, I was introduced to poetry in general and Robert Frost in particular by Miss Gamble in her high school "Introduction to English Literature" class.My life has never been the same.I'm now reading my 4th copy of this great work (having worn out the previous 3 volumes).Frost was, and still is, the greatest American poet.The word pictures he painted are marvelously descriptive and the often deceptive simplicity of his work is timeless.

As for the reviewer who thinks these poems are "trite and banal" and decries Frost's personal life (as if it somehow diminishes this great work) all I can say is "you have no soul" if you aren't moved and edified by these works.

And by all means, get the hardcover.It's worth the few extra coins.

Wonderful and Enriching
Reading Robert Frost just enriches your life.He writes with incredible color and unusual grace.The hardcover is totally worth it.

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Excellent information for improving your golf game.
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