by Mickey Spillane
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Book Description
"There's a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate." (The New York Times)
Apparently. With his trend-setting Mike Hammer detective novels, Mickey Spillane shot to superstardom as one of the most notorious bestselling sensations in publishing history. This powerhouse collection includes three of the master's long-out-of-print greatest novels-together for the first time in one explosive volume:
The Big Kill
One Lonely Night
Kiss Me, Deadly
Includes a special introduction by Shamus and Edgar Award-winner Lawrence Block.
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 Mickey's The Man, 2008-07-10
Tough, sexy, with a heart of gold underneath, Mike Hammer is the ultimate private eye and Spillane is the perfect writer to capture every bit of him and his stinkin' world.
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THERE SPILANE AND THEN THE REST., 2007-12-13
IF YOU WANT THE BEST IN PI. MYSTERIES ITS SPILLANE AND NOONE ELSE. GET VOL. ONE AND VOLUME TWO.EVEN HIS LESSER HAMMER BOOKS SURPASSES THE OTHER WRITERS CHARACTERS LIKE ROSS MCDONALD , JOHN D. MACDONALD AND THE LESSER WRITERS. AND LETS NOT MENTION THE SO CALLED NEW BREED OF WRITER. ONLY PARKER IS HALF WAY SKILLED. MOST PI. MYSTERIES ARE NOT TRUE TO LIFE BUT SPILLANE WAS NEW YORK CITY AND THE TIMES OF THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES.FOR SOME REASON HE TOOK A SABBATICAL AND CAME BACK TO HAMMER AND WHILE IT WASNT AS GOOD AS HIS PREVIOUS WORKS IT STILL SURPASSED THE OTHER WRITERS.
SO IF YOU WANT REAL AND GRIT AND THE REAL STREETS THAT ARE THE SAME ON THE STREETS TODAY GET MICKEY SPILLANE AND THESE TWO VOLS. I KNOW BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN A PI. FOR THIRTY YEARS.MICKEY WE MISS YA.!!!
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Great reading, 2007-06-08
Fine writing by a fine author. Pictures appeared in my mind with his use of words and always enjoyed each story. No one else like Spillane - not ever.
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 The Private Eye version of a Time Capsule, 2007-05-10
These Mickey Spillane novels that feature Mike Hammer are incredible. Spillane was immensely popular in the late 40s and early 50s. He wrote incredibly straightforward pulp novels of the sort that have been parodied endlessly in various media since, to the point that going back and reading the original invites laughs when they weren't intended.
The main character, Mike Hammer, is of course the private eye who's the toughest guy in New York City. He has his vices: he smokes constantly, drinks pretty much every chapter, and chases girls constantly. The women, especially, seem badly overdone. Each book he falls for at least three, and of course there's his secretary, Velda, who he claims to be in love with (though of course out of sight, out of mind definitely applies here). Velda never seems to get jealous when she figures out that he's been with another woman, at least not really, and none of the rest of them appear to think he should be monogamous either. They seem to understand that the book is for men, so they should let him chase as many girls as he can catch. He can catch a lot.
Some of the dialog is so overwritten and purple it's beyond parody, and often it's unintentionally funny. Some of the characters are a bit much too: Pat Chambers, his cop friend, never does anything beyond provide information and tell Mike to stay out of trouble, which Mike of course ignores. Mike is insanely tough: beat him up, shoot at him (or shoot him), whatever, he keeps trying to kill you until he succeeds.
One fascinating thing about the series, having read both volumes of the collection, is that Hammer almost never has a real client. Instead, he gets involved in these killings through being what amounts to a knight errant, wandering around and rescuing women. Of course the girl gets killed in the early going of the book, and of course Mike swears revenge, and of course he exacts it by the end of the book. Figuring out who the bad guy is by the end of the book is hard, though it's often another beautiful woman somewhere in the plot; if it isn't, it's some nefarious crime boss or something.
Everything is so dated it's funny. One of the books in this collection features bad guys who Mike invariably refers to as "Commies" as if he intends that as an insult. There's no pretense that someone should have the right to belong to a political party or anything like that: as far as Mike Hammer (and presumably Mickey Spillane too) is concerned, "Commies" deserve a firing squad.
I like dated things, things that are old and make you think about the past. Cultural references (the "Commies" mentioned above) are fascinating to me. I wonder what Hammett (who was a Marxist) thought of the book, if he read it. These books can be a bit hard to read (the characters are very cardboard, and the dialog is often way overdone) but they're interesting for what they are, and worth delving into.
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Mike Hammer -- named appropriately, 2007-05-07
I read these books shortly after they were published originally. I was a teenager who fantisized myself as Mike Hammer and his conquests - both with the ladies and in giving the bad guys their due. Spillane introduced me to the wonderful world of paperback novels that have kept me a voracious reader of them to this day. A few years later, I marveled at the exploits of 007, first in the books by Ian Fleming and then the movies so ably done by Broccoli and Saltzman - not to mention Sean Connery (the only real James Bond). Mickey has now gone on to his reward and I would say to him "job well done, Mick."
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