My Gun Is Quick

Rating:
Summary: eh.
Review: a lot of people have been saying how "hardboiled" mickey spillane is.

i suppose that's fair to say.

a lot of people have been saying that he's trash.

that too is accurate.

spillane is hard to describe. he can make a good plot outline and occasionally some decent diolauge, but most of the time it kind of just walks from one point to another, and predictably, too. the whole thing is like an inept chandler homage, but spillane deserves credit because the book at least can evoke memories of chandler. i guess it's good for a look, but really it's just kind of a book one would buy at an airport, read, then throw away.

Rating:
Summary: eh.
Review: a lot of people have been saying how "hardboiled" mickey spillane is.

i suppose that's fair to say.

a lot of people have been saying that he's trash.

that too is accurate.

spillane is hard to describe. he can make a good plot outline and occasionally some decent diolauge, but most of the time it kind of just walks from one point to another, and predictably, too. the whole thing is like an inept chandler homage, but spillane deserves credit because the book at least can evoke memories of chandler. i guess it's good for a look, but really it's just kind of a book one would buy at an airport, read, then throw away.

Rating:
Summary: I disagree 100% with the other review posted here.
Review: Look, Spillane is just not for everyone. In the particular subgenre of detective fiction that is Hardboiled, though, Nobody even comes close to Spillane in terms of white knuckle, jaw grating brutality and suspense. With the exception of his books from the '70s (can't remember the titles at the moment, but they're more scattered and almost pornographically sexual in parts), I have never picked up a Spillane book that I could put down until the gut-punching end.

I have to wonder if the other reviewer here even likes anything from this genre at all? Jim Thompson, for instance?

Rating:
Summary: I disagree 100% with the other review posted here.
Review: Look, Spillane is just not for everyone. In the particular subgenre of detective fiction that is Hardboiled, though, Nobody even comes close to Spillane in terms of white knuckle, jaw grating brutality and suspense. With the exception of his books from the '70s (can't remember the titles at the moment, but they're more scattered and almost pornographically sexual in parts), I have never picked up a Spillane book that I could put down until the gut-punching end.

I have to wonder if the other reviewer here even likes anything from this genre at all? Jim Thompson, for instance?

Rating:
Summary: More of the same from Spillane
Review: Private Detective Mike Hammer meets and befriends a prostitute known as 'Red'. The next day Hammer finds that 'Red' has been killed in a hit and run. He's convinced that it was no accident but murder, and vows revenge against those responsible.
'My Gun Is Quick' finds Mickey Spillane in a rut. Once again a friend of Mike Hammer's has been killed and once again the private detective is out for revenge. In 'I, the Jury' it was a wartime buddy, in 'Vengeance Is Mine' it was another friend, in 'The Big Kill' it was an orphaned child's father, and now in 'My Gun Is Quick' it is a hooker with a heart of gold.
Spillane was just going through the motions in this one. Half-way through the book you will already be able to guess the ending if you've ever read any other Mike Hammer book.

Rating:
Summary: Sometimes "trash" is just trash
Review: Spillane is so bad, there's no reason to read him now except for camp value, and even that rather quickly wears thin. Sadistic garbage.

And as to that old saw: "If I'm so lousy, why do millions of people buy my books?" Well, Mickey, nobody buys them anymore. They've been mulched.

Rating:
Summary: I Loved this book!
Review: This book was exciting, moved fast, and Spillane's character, Mike Hammer, as always, was in top form. Spillane's stories are always suspenseful and exciting.