I just finished Jack London's
The Sea Wolf. Like his other stuff, I should have read this long ago. A nautical Man vs. Nature with a touch of psychological thriller thrown in for good measure. Wolf Larsen--the amoral, sociopathic captain of the
Ghost--is one of the most fascinating creations I've come across in literature.
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"Feet with which to clutch the ground, legs to stand on and help withstand, while with arms and hands, teeth and nails, I struggle to kill and not be killed."
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I've started reading Raymond Chandler's
The Long Goodbye. I've long been a hard-boiled, noir fan, but I've neglected the sub-genre's roots.
I'm not very far into it, but I've already noticed what I can only assume are references to people/events from previous Philip Marlowe novels. To anyone who has read Chandler: should I read some of the previous novels to acclimate myself, or will this novel ultimately stand on its own?