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    I, The Jury
    I, The Jury
    I, The Jury
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    I, The Jury

    Written by Mickey Spillane

    Narrated by Stacy Keach

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    About this audiobook

    Here's Mickey Spillane and Mike Hammer in their roughest and readiest—a double-strength shot of sex, violence, and action that is vintage Spillane all the way. It's a tough-guy mystery to please even the most bloodthirsty of fans!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateMay 1, 1991
    ISBN9780743562515
    I, The Jury
    Author

    Mickey Spillane

    Mickey Spillane published his first novel, I, the Jury, in 1947. Since then his books have sold more than 140 million copies, and his private eye character Mike Hammer has become a household name. A Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, Spillane lived, fished, and found that writing just kept coming back to find him in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Mickey Spillane died July 17, 2006.

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    • 3/5
      A delight, a quick read, with little mystery but a lot of character. A cultural literacy read.
    • 5/5
      As another reviewer points out rather well, there are a number of repellent aspects to this book. On the other hand, I don't buy the notion that Hammer somehow doesn't have the right "tough guy persona". What does that mean, anyway? He's an individual with his own quirks and prejudices, and you don't have to like him to enjoy the book, which is a very effective one of its kind. As for Spillane not being a very good writer--well, it's true and it isn't true. See for yourself.
    • 3/5
      This is Spillane's first, and I was pleasantly surprised that it doesn't suffer from the mindless misogyny that is the hallmark of the genre he created (which is a terse variation of hard-boiled).Still, the central message of the book appears to be 'bros before hos.'
    • 2/5
      Spillane has been compared to Chandler and Hammett, this novel is in print over 50 years after it was first published, and Ayn Rand is a fan. (Kiss of death that last I'm sure to many, but I like Rand's style and expected I'd be impressed.) Reader, I hated this. Immensely. Couldn't even last to fifty pages.The style is almost a caricature of hard-boiled detective fiction a la Chandler and Hammett, and featured black dialect that was cringe-worthy--but it wasn't the style that made this impossible for me to like, it was the private investigator and first person narrator, Mike Hammer. His best friend has been killed, and he tells his friend--a police captain--that he intends to find--and murder--the killer. In fact Hammer tells this police detective to spread the word, and it's printed in the next day's newspaper. In case you think this is hyperbole or the result of a spontaneous reaction of grief...well, Hammer tells us that he's shot criminals "down like dogs" with no sentiment "plenty of times." As he explains it, the cops even appreciate how he operates: I don't underrate the cops. But cops can't break a guy's arm to make him talk, and they can't shove his teeth in with the muzzle of a .45 to remind him that you aren't fooling. On the upside, there are strong female characters. Hammer's secretary, Velda, packs a .32 automatic she's used by his side, and she's beyond competent--even anticipates him. One of the suspects--and this was published in 1947--is a successful, well-regarded psychiatrist despite being female. That aspect made me want to like this novel more. But oh, the melodrama! And really, Dirty Harry had far more respect for civil liberties than Hammer and I was never a fan of Death Wish.
    • 3/5
      Ok, I'm not a fan of mysteries. But Spillane died last month, so I thought I'd give his stuff a chance, and I thought I'd try it with his first novel.Its hard to judge it because there is so much that is spoofed or an homage. Its easy to poke fun at the slang terms, "rod, mitts, hot squat, more curves than a mountian highway" but that this is the source for like an entire subgenre of fiction (no I'm not forgetting Dashiel Hammond or Raymond Chandler), didn't make it quite so campy.The mystery held true to the rule of gumshoe mysteries that I learned watching bogey movies...if there's a beautiful woman, and she's interested in you, shoot her first.It is a very easy read, I read it in two sittings. And while part of me wants to mock it, it was surprisingly enjoyable. I doubt I'll ever read another of his, but I feel that I can mark off a literary checky box
    • 2/5
      I almost feel like I need a 'misogynist' shelf just so I can put this one on it. Chandler and Hammett can be bad enough, but this is -- whoa. It's written slickly enough, and Hammer is almost ridiculously, hilariously hard-boiled -- with a sticky, too-sweet centre that doesn't taste right. He was better than I thought he was, morally, in that he didn't know all along who did it and string them along just to get the proof, but the fact that I thought him capable of that doesn't bode well. He's not exactly Chandler's "shop-soiled Galahad" -- heck, not even a Lancelot.

      It was really hard to enjoy that for those reasons, and because I guessed the killer well in advance. It's enjoyable enough as a trashy read, but I hope to god no one takes it seriously.

      I was going to strike the other two books off my list, but apparently Hammer gets a little less offensive and Spillane's plot gets a bit tighter, so I'll try them. I'll probably skim, though.