A classic, of course. I found the slang to be most entertaining, but I was surprised that when Marlow was talking to some "dame", a few of his expressions were opaque to me. Was he flirting, just being a wise-ass, or something else? It may be that nobody knows the answer - did people really talk this way? There is some homophobia and the usual noir misogyny, and like 19th century anti-semitism, it indicates that these ideas were so much a part of social thought that it didn't cross anybody's mind how repulsive they would become in time. On the other hand, some Republican presidential candidates and their followers still hold to them.