"The Long Goodbye" was quite enjoyable for me while I was reading it, at times I even found myself glued to it and could not put it down (so, many times better than "The 39 Steps", which we read some months ago
), but it is one of those books that I could pick up again a year from now and it would seem like I never read it, as opposed to others that stick with me - as does "The Book Thief", for example.