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The Maltese Falcon
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June 2011 book club selection.

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As I recall, this was the first book I bought and read on my own immediately following college graduation nearly forty years ago. I'm pretty sure that it was my first Hammett, and I'll look forward to reading it again now that I have read so much of his.

One thing I'll concentrate on is focusing on the description of the characters in the book, and trying to avoid picturing the actors in the Humphrey Bogart movie. For example, Spade looked nothing like Bogart, and Brigid was beautiful, something
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