Re-read The Great Gatsby. It's pretty good! Writing is a bit florid but the characters are compelling. Recommend it.
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I love thinking of Gatsby as a hardboiled detective novel.
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The degree to which Tom Buchanan had set up Gatsby's murder is under-estimated.
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Yes, but also Carraway's narration is of a piece with the Op and later Philip Marlowe.
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Was just re-reading The Big Sleep as well and had the same thought -- Chandler must have read Fitzgerald, no?
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Seems likely. But it could also be a Steam Engine Time thing.
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(I'll confess a heresy and say that I might even say that in terms of prose & dialogue Chandler was slightly better than Fitzgerald).
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