Another startling thing is that his book don't depressingly affect me, in spite of all the fate and unhappiness of them. I think I'll even re-read "The Little Sister" more than once yet - there's an engaging component in it without a doubt. What I don't comprehend is the reason almost every analyst story author imagines that his or her principle hero simply needs to drink and smoke so much - is liquor expected to invigorate the mind? Barely so. Philip Marlowe smokes and beverages a ton - no big surprise he looks old at 38. Affirm, possibly not precisely old, but rather unquestionably not youthful.