Gosh, I guess the other direction this thread could take, is
confessions of
our youthful wrong turns into this stuff.
I first fell when I read Mickey Spillane. Though not quite as
detailed as
Peyton Place, nor as pathetic and dirty-talking as Battle
Cry, Spillane
appealed to male teen obsessions, the sense that sex and
death must be
closely related.
But Spillane didn't lead anywhere better, not till I'd aged
and fell in
with academics who read mysteries.
Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>
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