
Monday, 5 December 2022
Oh, poppycock! Who wrote this rubbish?

Saturday, 3 December 2022
Mis-sold by the marketers

It starts when Queenie's boyfriend of three years, Tom, has just told her he wants a break. She interprets this to mean and then we'll get back together. However what he really means is that he wants to break up permanently.
Friday, 2 December 2022
I'm rich. Who the hell wants to be happy?

Drinking and drunkenness pervade the book. Right at the beginning, Philip Marlowe meets Terry Lennox when the latter is "drunk in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith." Lennox is an ex-soldier, the unhappy husband of a wealthy wife; "I’m rich. Who the hell wants to be happy?".
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