The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler
List(s):"Carp 500"
Category: "Fiction - Mystery"
Pages:190
Year of Publication:1939
Date Read:08/23/1995
Notes:The first of the Philip Marlowe novels and a classic of the Hard-boiled genre. Its explosively direct prose changed detective fiction forever. "I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it." (From chapter 1 of The Big Sleep.)

COMMENTS — If you enjoy the book, check out the 1946 movie, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
My Rating: 8

Reviews for The Big Sleep

Review - Big Sleep, The

Meant to be read in one sitting: I took four and had to keep flipping back to find out who all the characters were. Dozens kept popping in and out. It had great dialogue, the plot was almost plausible and the atmosphere was great. it was probably a bit more complicated than it needed to be.
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