He put the Hammer down...

Author Mickey Spillane has died.

I don't know that I've ever read one of his books, just as I've never sat through a whole James Bond movie. They're not my type of entertainment, although I suppose I should read and watch one each for the sake of their icon status.

The two things I find interesting about Spillane are these:

He was universally panned by critics over his career, but loved by readers. I think that says more about the critics than the readers. Although... a lot of people love Danielle Steele...

He was a Jehovah's Witness, neither drinking nor smoking, but he wrote a hard drinking, hard living, violent man. Catharsis? Would that mine were so lucrative.

Interesting man. I'm sorry he's gone. Maybe I would have read his next book...