I love Mickey Spillane. He's my favorite, as my multiple
copies of all his books testify (I'm collecting the different
covers). Did not like the movie version of Kiss Me, Deadly,
nor did the book really light my fire. I think it's one of
Spillane's weaker Hammer books. I know it's sacreligious to
say so, but after reading Spillane, Hammett, Chandler and
MacDonald seem weaker by comparison. I know all the
"literary" arguments in favor of the
Hammett/Chandler/MacDonald triumverate, and the "trash" about
Spillane, but Spillane just told a better story. Who cares if
it wasn't "literary" or have any real lasting significance? I
can't put his books down (which, as any working writer will
tell you, is the whole point).
Max Allan Collins has several projects in the works about
Spillane, anthologies collecting the remainder of his short
stories not collected in
"Tomorrow I Die"; also, Spillane's non-fiction work will
appear in "Byline: Mickey Spillane". I'm looking forward to
both, and hope that Mickey will see the same "resurrection"
that Hammett and those other two guys have. --Brian
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