MrT said: "That would presuppose a very primitive reader.
Since the stuff came out long before my time, I cannot say
how readers in the fifties reacted. Some critics thought it
was primitive and adolescent, though."
Well, being an Old Guy, I was around in the fifties. And in
fact, I was pretty primitive (and definitely adolescent and
certainly no critic) at the time. I still remember when a
friend of mine named John Black parked his pick-up in front
of my house and started honking the horn. When I went
outside, he handed me a copy of KISS ME, DEADLY and said,
"You gotta read this!" So while he drove around town, I read
the first few pages. I didn't know a thing about Art, but I
knew what I liked, and Spillane was giving me something I
liked. (I don't know how old I was, as John got his driver's
license when we were 14. Could have been any time after that
until I was 18.)
Bill Crider
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