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My thoughts

4/5stars My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery. This is one of those classics which everyone and their mothers had already before I was even born. So I had to see what the hype was surrounding it. And needless to say, it definitely was one of the those which deserve all the hype and then some. The plot building, the character arcs for some people and the overall progression of the story was all so so good! Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? Sam Spade is a whole lot of mystery in himself. It begins with him being presented as a man of zero conscience but is he really that way? his character arc at the end of the story was DAMN GOOD! Tho, I was a little disappointed with the ending of the book wrt the finding of the bird, but I just found out there are other books in the series? So I might just get some more answers. When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Overall a fun read, I hadn't read a good detective fiction in a while and I have finally checked this off the list so yeah a win-win.