The Big Sleep

I love reading this book, but I don't think I got much out of it. Prose put it on the list because the writing is great, but it's not serious fiction. She's not a snob; her list is impossible because she's completely without snobbery. She doesn't look down on hard-shell detectives. She sees art here too. Chandler's strength is dialogue and that's one of my huge weaknesses. I could learn something on a second reading.