The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

1939 • 155 pages

Ratings165

Average rating3.7

15

Great crime fiction. Intricate but comprehensible plot. Loved the hard-boiled writing style. Some great male characters, but the female characters were disappointing—one-dimensional animals. Marlowe's thought, “Women make me sick,” kinda sums up the underlying misogyny.

January 5, 2018