MY GUN IS QUICK, whose title is at least by one read a
satiric commentary on Hammer's lack of rational resources.
Rob
---
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:
> Jim,
>
> I think you're right that he's just not my
taste.
> For instance, miker
> recently pointed out how many of
Chandler's
> murderers were women, but
> that never bothered me. Similarly, I'm a big fan
of
> noir films with
> femmes fatales (whether or not they get away
with
> it), a depiction many
> find sexist, if not outright misogynist. So
it
> can't just be Hammer's
> dispatching of female killers that bothers me,
a
> dismissal that has even
> less validity now that you've proven that
Spillane
> believes in sexual
> equality when it comes to villainy.
>
> I think it's probably telling that my favorite
Mike
> Hammer film is Kiss
> Me Deadly, the one Spillane hated because Hammer
is
> shown as far from
> heroic, basically using Velda to run badger
games.
> Also kind of enjoyed
> Stacey Keach's Hammer, but mostly for the
> spoofiness. While I do
> recognize the bits of tongue in cheek humor in
the
> few novels of his
> I've read, the proud brutishness overwhelmed it
for
> me.
>
> Maybe it was because I read them in college that
the
> anti-intellectualism particularly offended
the
> intellectual I was then
> (somewhat ostentatiously) trying to become. I
like
> to think I've
> outgrown at least some of that
snobbiness.
>
> And with that mind, maybe I'll try him again.
Which
> Hammer book do you
> (or anyone else) recommend as his best?
>
> Mark
>
>
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