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Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham

2.0

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"Nightmare Alley" is a 40s noir that seems like it was created in a lab just for me: A small-time hustler joins a traveling carny, "accidentally" murders his lover's husband, finds a new calling as an itinerant sham preacher, and chooses one of the world's richest men as his next mark. All that and yet--this is kind of boring!