The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

What a fun romp through a hardboiled detective classic! I had never read the book, having only seen the Bogey/Bacall movie. But what a book this was. I loved the pacing, the dialogue, the tone. Chandler can really paint a noir picture. It’s hard to put this down once you pick it up. It won’t change your worldview and probably won’t make you smarter or dumber, but you’ll be glad to have read it. It’s a great example of why reading is called pleasure.

There’s also a great deal of awesome lines in here. One of my favorites was:

"Mr. Cobb was my escort," she said. "Such a nice escort, Mr. Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him sober. Somebody should see him sober. I mean, just for the record. So it could become a part of history, that brief flashing moment, soon buried in time, but never forgotten– when Larry Cobb was sober."